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Let's Ban New Books
2016-07-05 04:02:02 Post No. 8242492
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Let's Ban New Books
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2016-07-05 04:02:02
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https://www.gwern.net/Culture%20is%20not%20about%20Esthetics#lets-ban-new-books
>1. Society ought to discourage economically inefficient activities.
>2. If some good A can be created to fill a need, and there is an existing & available good B that fills that need equally well, then it is economically inefficient to use A and not B.
>3. Consumers of new art would be equally satisfied by existing art.
>4. By 2 & 3: it is economically inefficient to produce new art.
>∴ By 1 & 4: Society ought to discourage new art.
>In short: old stuff is as good as the new, and it’s cheaper; so making new stuff is wasteful.
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