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Originally Posted by Cole Cyr
the distinction is in the task, the term beauty for instance.
The robot performed the task beautifully. the word speaks to its level of performance
the robot looked beautiful as its performing the task. speaks to the look of the robot but not the preformance
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No. Beauty does not denote performance. The definition of beauty is
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the quality present in a thing or person that gives intense pleasure or deep satisfaction to the mind, whether arising from sensory manifestations (as shape, color, sound, etc.), a meaningful design or pattern, or something else (as a personality in which high spiritual qualities are manifest).
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Even saying something was done beautifully is subjective, not objective. And as you stated in your original post,
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I believe there should be no place for this type of subjectivity in the almost entirely objective fields of Science Technology Engineering and Math.
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If you want to objectively compliment a robots performance, you talk about the number of times it scored, the speed with which is manipulated the game object, or its consistency across matches. Those are all objective facts that can be determined, stated, and compared. Saying it completed the task beautifully implies a subjective opinion on the method of implementation, there is nothing at all objective about it.