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Re:Wikipedia Editors Have Voted Not to Classify NFTs as Art,... by aufhebung on Friday January 14, 2022 @07:20PM (#29942288)
When we say pyramid schemes are not sales businesses, or NFTs are not art, I think we sneak value judgements into what should be objective definitions. If we were to have a definition of a sales business in the dictionary, it would not read: 'A business based around sales. Except for pyramid schemes because they are bad.'
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Re:Wikipedia Editors Have Voted Not to Classify NFTs as Art,... by antifa on Friday January 14, 2022 @11:02PM (#29943411)
The pyramid scheme allegory was bad.

A non value judgement allegory would be receipts. Receipts are not art. You can have art of a receipt, you can make a receipt into art, but receipts are categorically not art.

NFTs are basically digital receipts.

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Re:Wikipedia Editors Have Voted Not to Classify NFTs as Art,... by BoiledCabbage on Friday January 14, 2022 @08:34PM (#29942731)
Except the real world is messy and doesn't fall into the perfectly neat definitions like the algorithmic or mathematical world does.
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