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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.
Thoughts?
>>8242492
1 and 3 are both absolutely baseless and false.
Art should not be an "economic" question at all on a large scale. That's an autistic engineer's line of thinking.
Yes, let us ban all humanities degrees as well. STEM master-race xD!!
>tfw all philosophy boils down to the 2nd law of thermodynamics
utility isn't as central to human experience as whoever wrote this believes. being is impractical in itself.
and anyone who cites tvtropes in order to further an argument can only be so credible.
