
Episode 54: Computational and Explanatory Universality (IQ part 2)
The Theory of Anything
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The Importance of Objective Beauty
I don't know that we understand beauty or morality well enough at this point to say anything strongly rational about them. I buy the overall argument from Deutsch that beauty is hard to vary, but it doesn't mean it's objective. The fact that Mozart throws away versions of his song demonstrates air corrections going on and there are literally objectively better or worse versions of this song. But Stephen Pinker says, well no music may just be cheesecake for the years just like you have there's certain biological parochial desires that we have that are wired into a spy genetics. And so some things taste better on average to more people than others because we share a lot of geneticsyou can find
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