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>> guitar player who is always talking about the best amps, pedalboards and shred techniques... but haven't really written any noteworthy music To use the musi
by redthrow 7y ago
>> guitar player who is always talking about the best amps, pedalboards and shred techniques... but haven't really written any noteworthy music
To use the music analogy, isn't Gwern's point that since most people won't be able to come up with "noteworthy" music on their own (many think they can, due to overconfidence), the better thing to do for the world is to (help) realize, promote and refine the noteworthy music other people did, even though you are unlikely to get any credit that way?
- JadeNB 7y ago> To use the music analogy, isn't Gwern's point that since most people won't be able to come up with "noteworthy" music on their own (many think they can, due to overconfidence), the better thing to do for the world is to (help) realize, promote and refine the noteworthy music other people did, even though you are unlikely to get any credit that way? This (de-analogised) would, I think, have made a very good post. Instead of urging others to find their ways to contribute, even if those ways were little recognised or rewarded, the post seemed more about the authors' wanting recognition both for doing this, and, curiously, recognition for not getting recognition—both of which are probably OK, except that the author then seems to proceed to devalue other sorts of contribution. (I think that the reference to wankery was particularly uncalled for.)