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		pm90 on Jan 10, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Pain of the New: The Hobbit at 48 fps I'm genuinely curious: in cases like this, how do we differentiate between what is truly not pretty and what we don't like just because we're habituated to something else? Does the former even mean anything, since we humans are the only ones experiencing the technology?

Florin_Andrei on Jan 10, 2013 | [–]

Apparently, this is a difficult question to answer.

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/beauty/

TillE on Jan 10, 2013 | [–]

In this case, run some experiments with people from various cultures who have never seen film or television before.

Humanity is fairly diverse, and many behaviors or preferences have little to do with genetics.

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