Okay, so Stefan_King is right that beauty is a special case of rationality, then? And the optic system quote represents that?

Sorry, while there may be beauty in that particular system, the quote itself only glorifies complexity, not beauty. Whatever happened to say not complexity?

(Btw, Eliezer_Yudkowsky, about that blog post I just linked: Marcello seemed to make, with all due respect to the gentleman, a pretty stupid inference. If all I have to do to qualify to work for you is be smart enough not to think like that, you really need to hire me. I'll email my salary requirements. ;-)