In a recent HN thread fellow HNers were asking what is a real artist: this is it.
No, this what a real schizophrenic is. It's a terrible disease that should not be romanticized in any way.
TempleOS creator Terry Davis is homeless and living in a van
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#42In a recent HN thread fellow HNers were asking what is a real artist: this is it.
No, this what a real schizophrenic is. It's a terrible disease that should not be romanticized in any way.
There surely seems to be a correlation between great art and mental illness. Van Gogh, Rothko, Frida Kahlo... I guess it depends on your taste in art, though. I'd put Terry in this camp for sure.
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#43When I googled I found more details here: https://www.reddit.com/r/Drama/comments/7218gh/templeos_crea... > Despite the mean spirited attention he gets, he does have a following of people who seem to genuinly feel for him, and want to do nice things for him. One thing his followers did which at least seemed well intentioned was buying him a drum set. Terry likes to use drum sticks, but didn't have a set, so a gofundm…
It blows my mind that a mental ill person is ending up homeless like this. Society should take care of theses cases.
Unfortunately, he was born into a society that would prefer the mentally ill take care of themselves.
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#44If you want to draw attention to a schizophrenic person who needs help, maybe linking /r/Drama is the wrong way.
Re: TempleOS creator Terry Davis is homeless and living in a van
#45TempleOS has no process isolation, so it's completely unaffected by Spectre and Meltdown. I'm starting to think there's a lot of wisdom in its design. Complexity of modern computer systems keeps increasing but the value I get from that complexity isn't increasing nearly as fast. Spectre and Meltdown are just recent examples of some of the cost of that complexity. Do we really need an OS too complex for any one person…
Are you surprised? Would God really instruct his prophet Terry to write something less than perfect?
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#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
In fact, if you do a careful study of history, many of the best artists have "serious mental issues". The question is, how do we define "serious mental issues" and "art"? I don't think its a coincidence that people with off-the-charts creativity are mentally different than most other people. If your thought process is that far removed from others in regards to art ("creativity"), then it only stands to reason that yo…
Art in Swedish is "konst" which is the base for the word "konstig" which means, literally, weird or odd. I'm pretty sure there's a reason for that etymology.
in Danish Kunstig main meaning is artificial or synthetic, secondary meaning - does not seem real, natural, or authentic (of upright standing)
http://ordnet.dk/ddo/ordbog?query=kunstig
so I don't know that I would say there is a reason for the etymology that relates in any direct way with artists are weird.
Re: TempleOS creator Terry Davis is homeless and living in a van
#47ELI5 the story behind this?
He is a schizo autistic programmer who is convinced God told him to make an OS, so he is working on it constantly for 15 years, doing nothing else (it kind of resembles Noah's Ark). He used to livestream regularly on Youtube and became popular on technology boards on 4chan, 8chan etc., for his rants about God and "CIA niggers" and generally "being a living meme". Some people there genuinely like him and even bought h…
And he also posts on HN, but last time I checked his account is shadow-banned.
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#48The amount of dedication Terry shows for his project is beyond what you see anywhere else in the software dev space. For anyone who hasn't, I recommend to watch his videos on TempleOS (there are a lot of hymn videos or ranting videos, you can ignore those), they are a genuinely interesting perspective into OS Development.
His mental condition and personal situation is also beyond what you see anywhere else.
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#49In a recent HN thread fellow HNers were asking what is a real artist: this is it.
How do you mean? TempleOS is undoubtably a pretty interesting achievement, both in the artistic and technological sense - but Terry has serious mental issues, and we shouldn't overlook them as "oh, that's just how artists are".
Maybe more Outsider Art
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#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
No, this what a real schizophrenic is. It's a terrible disease that should not be romanticized in any way.
There surely seems to be a correlation between great art and mental illness. Van Gogh, Rothko, Frida Kahlo... I guess it depends on your taste in art, though. I'd put Terry in this camp for sure.
Those were a few that were lucky enough to earn a living / have people take care of them; that's only a small percentage, the rest ends up homeless, dead, interned, jailed. Terry is headed that way too now.