[lbo-talk] tracy vs robot girlfriend [was Art is Dead]

Brian Siano siano at mail.med.upenn.edu
Mon Aug 25 12:53:29 PDT 2003


Miike Quenling Ellis wrote:


>--- Brian Siano <siano at mail.med.upenn.edu> wrote:
>that's subjective...i happen to like those 'flaws'. wouldn't that be great
>if a tree that didn't look quite right could be altered to our whim? even
>those bonzai trees never quite turn out 'right'....damn if my girlfriend
>would do everything i tell her to do...argue with me when i want her to
>and agree with me when i want her to...that would be 'perfect'. wait she
>would have to do that without me telling her to do it. might be easier
>just to get a robot girlfriend.
>
I like the flaws, too, but that's just me speaking as an audience member. If I were the artist, well, I'd want to eliminate the flaws as much as possible. And there's a big difference between creating a work of art, and trying to get it _just right_, and dealing with imperfect, autonomous human beings.



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