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[โ€“] sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz -2 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

Then they obviously don't understand it very well since it's still somehow providing them with novelty. Seriously, the parlor trick has a threshold if you've seen it enough. I happen to think object permanence is beyond infants but by your logic that would also be pretense because I just I haven't met a baby yet who had it.

And as I've mentioned before, I'm pretty stupid. The fact that the "infinite art machine" couldn't keep an ape like me pressing the novelty button kind of speaks to its inability to create anything meaningful. I am a very low bar for overcoming pattern recognition.

[โ€“] ricecake@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 hour ago

Ah, yes, because the disagreeing with you means "infatuated by the random picture machine", right? No room for someone to think that it's, I don't know, another tool a person can use in the creation of art? Kinda like how not every cellphone picture is high art, but you wouldn't say you can't use a camera to make art.

But no, clearly you're the arbiter of knowing how stuff works and, what art is, and how others appreciate it.

object permanence is beyond infants but by your logic that would also be pretense

Yes, because developmental psychology is exactly the same as "art critique".
It's pretentious because you're responding to someone who disagrees with you by asserting that either they don't understand the subject technically, or their entirely subjective experience of art is somehow lesser than yours.