2×2: tasteless vs tasteful, legible vs illegible politics.
— Venkatesh Rao ☀️ (@vgr) September 16, 2021
Tasteless+illegible = random acts of sciencing
Tasteful+illegible = intuits the alchemy-chemistry boundary well
Tasteful+legible = aesthete, vulnerable to beauty > truth errors
Tasteless+legible = culture war mook