Against vibes - by Andrew Wu - fanciful filigree flights
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Rigor, technicality, words and sounds, artificial intelligence, ugliness, Lucas Debargue, self-expression, my old visual art
ALGERNON. Did you hear what I was playing, Lane? LANE. I didn’t think it polite to listen, sir. ALGERNON. I’m sorry for that, for your sake. I don’t play accurately—any one can play accurately—but I play with a wonderful expression. (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) The humanities and arts are very technical. Technical is a loaded word. Some people, at least in the San Francisco Bay Area, use the word technical to refer to people competent at coding and use the word non-technical in a derogatory manner. This I dislike. The word technical carries connotations of rigor and…
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