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I'm a climate scientist by trade. Interested in interesting things. Ecology, complexity, politics, social change, music.

  • Yeah, I think AI optimising commercial music genres is just effectively doing what the corporate music industry has been doing for years anyway. It's like gamification of the auditory processing system.

  • It is possible for genAI to be creative in that sense (e.g. move 37), but it's not possible for it to know whether that new thing is good/valuable/true/whatever. So it can't challenge an idea in any sense more meaningful than a monkey throwing darts. A human could use it to generate challenges, and then evaluate them, but that's a different proposition.

  • On your first point, I think it's not so much about reputation as about trust. Long-standing accounts at least have the simple trust that's based on consistency and familiarity. If you meet a new person IRL, you at least get something to go off based on visuals and behavioural cues. A new account online has absolutely nothing to base any trust on.

  • Emotions (and hence also a lot of thinking) have a lot of physical and chemical processes involved too, it's not just neural signalling.

  • The outputs becoming indistinguishable does not imply that the generative processes are the same.

  • I can count to 11 on my fingers

  • It's a generally applicable lesson in why it's NOT a good idea to change things for the sake of it though (chesterton's fence, but where most of the actual bits of fence are invisible).

  • See the key above the left shift key? Press that

  • Get a cheap/pirated DAW with some basic synth plugins. I'd recommend starting with the most basic subtractive synth you can find, plus a sampler, and some basic effects (delay, reverb, distortion, chorus). Limit yourself to that until you understand everything they're doing.

  • No accounting for taste

  • I like non-generative AI. Early artificial life sims (e.g cellular automata) are super interesting, and machine learning and xAI are great for science.

    Just not that big a fan of the infinite slop machine helping the rich get richer at the cost of degrading our knowledge base and arts

  • Fuck yeah

    1. That they give a shit about other people, and contribute in some way to their community/society.
    2. Capacity for/evidence of personal growth. This one's not always easy to see, but it's amazing when you do.
  • Also it's building on top of existing fragility (the thin pillar below), and only making it worse

  • Maybe? But I'd say it's probably also quite common. Parent-child relationships are pretty intense at the best of times, and no one is perfect. No idea what your situation is, but it's worth remembering that parenting is hard sometimes, and it's easy to fuck up.

  • There are certainly less immoral companies though. Avoid arms manufacturers, fossil fuel, big tech, the police and chemical manufacturers, obviously.

    There's vaguely ethical jobs in manufacturing, retail, government (e.g. parks, urban maintenance), academia, the NGO sector, and many other spaces

  • I get the vibe that it's a lot easier if you're not in the US. I guess there are a few worse countries as well..

  • I don't?