Survival of the most intellectually beautiful? So how to deal with that Darwin from outer space?
I remember a recent post by Skip http://jsoftware.com/pipermail/programming/2021-February/057491.html so I guess mankind should trade those IEEE floats for beauty otoh, what’s so impressive about that formula? it tells mankind developed far (long) enough to have explored this open truth. I do think a civilization can truly impress by art only. … and what would be bad about becoming catfood, supporting a superior life form as nutrition? rumour has it there could be other entities even better than cats – I doubt it :-) /\_/\ ( o o ) ==_Y_== `–' Am 20.02.21 um 06:46 schrieb María Magdalena Mixuhca: > I find this lack of beauty surprisingly disturbing: > > (^ j. 1p1) > _1j1.22465e_16 > > So much so, in fact, that if I'm ever in the situation of having to prove > to a finicky Galactic Emperor that humanity is indeed capable of producing > the most sublime beauty and thus worthy of saving, I would undoubtedly > resort to something like: > > (0j1 * 1p1) = (^. _1) > 1 > > ...lest he finds the former as perturbing as I do on my bad days, turns me > into catfood on the spot and makes the Sun go supernova just like that. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > -- ---------------------- mail written using NEO neo-layout.org ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
