The Modern Golden Age Podcast

The Modern Golden Age #13 - Étienne Fortier-Dubois

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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!

https://twitter.com/etiennefd

https://etiennefd.substack.com/