And not in an interesting or especially soulful way. Claiming that many things are soulless is probably correct, but naming the quality that cannot be named without even admitting that it's all AESTHETICS is kind of sloppy.
Every comment from this account so far feels AI-generated. Not trying to dismiss you entirely, I understand if this is an attempt to interact across a language barrier but this kind of response is very suspect. I really hope HN doesn’t succumb to the dead internet problem where bots are just responding to bots.
I couldn't get more than a few paragraphs into the article. This is possibly the most egregious example of unusably low information density I've ever seen.
You can group your first three (food, water, shelter) under your fourth (survival). Then your next two examples are cases of how people feel.
On top of that you can find plenty of clear evidence for situations where humans choose feelings over survival, whether that’s giving up one’s own survival for the sake of people or a cause, or giving up on survival because emotional needs aren’t met.
It’s not as clear cut of a hierarchy as you seem to think it is.
Started to think of the california redwoods around the bay area. big basin burned, but henry cowell has some magnificent redwoods to wander around underneath. You WILL get the feeling from the robert harrison quote.
The sad sad part is that all the mountains were clear-cut to rebuild san francisco after the 1906 earthuake. countless redwoods thousands of years old.
I guess the only parallel to consumer product design is how my view of "smart" devices has tempered over the years, and it is very infrequently I find wonder among the subscriptions and data mining.
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[ 0.18 ms ] story [ 40.0 ms ] threadA City Is Not a Tree (1965) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21916408 - Dec 2019 (17 comments)
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Food, water, shelter, survival, comfort, security.
Is this a joke?
On top of that you can find plenty of clear evidence for situations where humans choose feelings over survival, whether that’s giving up one’s own survival for the sake of people or a cause, or giving up on survival because emotional needs aren’t met.
It’s not as clear cut of a hierarchy as you seem to think it is.
The sad sad part is that all the mountains were clear-cut to rebuild san francisco after the 1906 earthuake. countless redwoods thousands of years old.
I guess the only parallel to consumer product design is how my view of "smart" devices has tempered over the years, and it is very infrequently I find wonder among the subscriptions and data mining.