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Music scientist Phillip Dorrell has argued for the existence of currently hypothetical "strong music," a class of musical stimuli presumably discoverable by str
by optimalsolver 3y ago
Music scientist Phillip Dorrell has argued for the existence of currently hypothetical "strong music," a class of musical stimuli presumably discoverable by strong AI.
Any property, in this case the rewarding effect of acoustic stimuli in humans, can be powerfully maximized. There must exist patterns in music-space that would have profoundly greater impact on human minds than those our low-wattage brains can find. So through a really powerful search and optimization process that can more efficiently explore remote, undiscovered regions of music-space, we could get musical stimuli more intense than anything previously imagined.
What these songs would sound like is the real mystery. Would they sound anything like the music we're familiar with? Would they lead to musical wireheading?
It also seems a bad idea to measure musical goodness by, say, how many times humans will replay a certain audio file. If you use this measure, I don't think you'll end up with what you want at all.
- tempaway25755 3y agosounds like the Colundi Sequence
- HKH2 3y ago> It also seems a bad idea to measure musical goodness by, say, how many times humans will replay a certain audio file. Because people listen to music for words and other sounds that are added to music.
- tsimionescu 3y agoI don't see why we would believe there must exist music more pleasing than what we've already created. Not saying it's impossible it exists, but I also don't see any reason to believe it should exist. Perhaps the utmost extent to which we can enjoy music is really not that high, and something like Bach or Rolling Stones or Taylor Swift or whatever already approaches the theoretical maximum.