Martial valor is another interesting one that people tend to find beautiful or ugly, and rarely if ever neutral.
I wonder if there’s some component of simulating yourself either participating in an environment or activity and imagining how you’d feel.
Deserts — though there’s counterintuitive things like them being cold at night — probably seem more tractable on how to navigate them than swamps.
I wonder if people see a patriotic rally and implicitly attempt to simulate “what the hell would I be doing if I was there, like, waving a flag around???” — and mentally encode it ugly. Vice-versa being at a spiritual retreat for people who’d enjoy a rally.
There’s quite likely some “implicitly mentally trying it on” going on, no?
Relatedly — I used to find motorcycles swerving through traffic dangerous/ugly.
After I learned to ride a motorcycle, it (1) now is more predictable and seems less dangerous and (2) now seems beautiful/reasonable/cool rather than ugly/random/annoying.
Okay, one more — Grimes’s “We Appreciate Power” is an electro-pop song about artificial intelligence, simulation, and brain uploading among other things:
A lot of the kids that like it no doubt enjoy it for the rebellious countersignaling aspect of it, combined with catchy beat.
But I like it on, I think, a different level than a 15 year old that’d like it. When I was 15, I listened to Rage Against the Machine — I had no idea what the heck RATM was talking about with Ireland and burning crosses or whatever, it was just, like, loud and rebellious and cool.
It’s not groundbreaking to say people can appreciate things on different levels, but I wonder how much my intellectual enjoyment of We Appreciate Power backpropagates into liking the beat, vocal range, tempo, etc more.
[Bridge: Grimes & HANA]
And if you long to never die Baby, plug in, upload your mind Come on, you’re not even alive If you’re not backed up on a drive And if you long to never die Baby, plug in, upload your mind Come on, you’re not even alive If you’re not backed up, backed up on a drive
Great post.
Martial valor is another interesting one that people tend to find beautiful or ugly, and rarely if ever neutral.
I wonder if there’s some component of simulating yourself either participating in an environment or activity and imagining how you’d feel.
Deserts — though there’s counterintuitive things like them being cold at night — probably seem more tractable on how to navigate them than swamps.
I wonder if people see a patriotic rally and implicitly attempt to simulate “what the hell would I be doing if I was there, like, waving a flag around???” — and mentally encode it ugly. Vice-versa being at a spiritual retreat for people who’d enjoy a rally.
There’s quite likely some “implicitly mentally trying it on” going on, no?
Relatedly — I used to find motorcycles swerving through traffic dangerous/ugly.
After I learned to ride a motorcycle, it (1) now is more predictable and seems less dangerous and (2) now seems beautiful/reasonable/cool rather than ugly/random/annoying.
Okay, one more — Grimes’s “We Appreciate Power” is an electro-pop song about artificial intelligence, simulation, and brain uploading among other things:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYG_4vJ4qNA
A lot of the kids that like it no doubt enjoy it for the rebellious countersignaling aspect of it, combined with catchy beat.
But I like it on, I think, a different level than a 15 year old that’d like it. When I was 15, I listened to Rage Against the Machine — I had no idea what the heck RATM was talking about with Ireland and burning crosses or whatever, it was just, like, loud and rebellious and cool.
It’s not groundbreaking to say people can appreciate things on different levels, but I wonder how much my intellectual enjoyment of We Appreciate Power backpropagates into liking the beat, vocal range, tempo, etc more.
[Bridge: Grimes & HANA]
And if you long to never die
Baby, plug in, upload your mind
Come on, you’re not even alive
If you’re not backed up on a drive
And if you long to never die
Baby, plug in, upload your mind
Come on, you’re not even alive
If you’re not backed up, backed up on a drive