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Aesthetics
What is your boredom worth?
You spend an hour with a difficult book, a painting, an album, and get nothing. Nothing opens. What is the honest verdict?
Your response is real. Whether it is a fair measure of the work is less certain.
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Nearby questions5
- A piece of writing moves you to tears. Later, you learn that a language model wrote every word. Does that change its value, your feeling, or neither — and why?
- Is your taste yours? How much of what you love would you still love if no one could see you loving it?
- Can something ugly, unpleasant, or deliberately boring be great art? If beauty is optional, what is the work asking you to value?
- You know the Sistine Chapel from images. If you went, what exactly would you be going for?
- If you were angry enough at what it stood for, could you ever be right to put a blade through a painting?