The Modern Golden Age Podcast
The Modern Golden Age #13 - Étienne Fortier-Dubois
Episode notes
Étienne is the writer of Atlas of Wonders and Monsters, a blog where he explores topics such as science, philosophy, history and, Aesthetics. In this episode, we focused on the concept of Beauty and how it relates to a Modern Golden Age.
Timestamps:
00:00 ~ Intro
01:28 ~ Computer Science and Evolutionary Biology
03:51 ~ Definition of Beauty
06:08 ~ Layers in Beauty
08:45 ~ Interesting, Beautiful, Ugly and Boring
13:45 ~ A Taxonomy of Beauty
33:52 ~ Why Beauty?
38:19 ~ Modern Golden Age
42:39 ~ Progress in a Modern Golden Age
45:54 ~ Leadership in a Modern Golden Age
49:29 ~ What qualities should we look for in a Leader
51:49 ~ Practices to get to a Modern Golden Age
54:45 ~ Values
58:15 ~ Where can you find Étienne?
Here!