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Comment Re:Allowing your mind to close. (Score 1) 361

It's not just the implied associations; popular music lyrics are usually about the life of 20-somethings.
I'm now 38 and still enjoy ~1/5th of regular new pop music, but the rest just seems to be talking about things I simply don't care about any more.
I'm also less likely to follow pop fads. Looking back, I no longer enjoy the pop fads of my own youth either.

It's the same with movies. Who over 30 would watch a Twilight movie? Who would have probably watched it back when they were 20?

Comment Re:23 down, 77 to go (Score 1) 866

I think you're using the reasoning that only religious people can be atheophobic. That would explain why you though you saw a rational used that wasn't. Both religious and non-religious people can be atheophobic. Unless you define all non-religious people as atheists ofcourse, in which case this all is merely a semantics argument. Then again, perhaps even atheists can be atheophobic ;)

Comment Re:Confused (Score 1) 175

Art, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder.
Completing an art college does not make you an artist, it makes you a craftsman at best.
Having people willing to hand over their own money for what you've created makes you an artist.
This does not include government subsidies and grants; that's OTHER people's money.

FWIW, I do like some of modern art. Skill shouldn't be any factor; if somebody can create something mindnumbingly awesome with minimal technical skill, I'd still consider it art, because it's still mindnumbingly awesome and I'd pay for it.

Comment Re:Not convinced (Score 1) 408

Thing is, these are really hard problem to solve, since they are essentially all about moral values, which are always subjective in nature.
The technical bit is just about the least significant; you could probably make a really accurate dog vs. human detector, but -like all software- it won't ever be 100% free of bugs.
This is why lawyers keep bringing up the problem of who is responsible in a self-driving car.

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