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Nornagest comments on Stupid Questions March 2015 - Less Wrong Discussion

5 Post author: Gondolinian 03 March 2015 11:37PM

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Comment author: Nornagest 06 March 2015 06:03:08PM 0 points [-]

A fashion model is IMO more reasonable, and closer to what I believe, but I don't see any particular reason for ethical fashions to track closely with aesthetic ones, or for retro taste in one to necessarily align with retro taste in the other.

I'm rather fond of Migration Period knotwork designs, for example, but I'm not about to raid my neighbors for cattle.

Comment author: [deleted] 06 March 2015 06:58:18PM 0 points [-]

But that knotwork is just decoration, icing on the cake.

Aesthethics, for me, is a much more deeper concept - everything you viscerally like, as a terminal value, everything that presses your 'Aww yiss!" buttons.

Do you find the aesthethics of a Migration Period warrior also appealing? Helpful: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ift85e38H3M