Indeed. As an amateur guitarist, but a professional virtual machinist, I have a ton of respect for people who have dedicated their whole lives to mastery in any

Indeed. As an amateur guitarist, but a professional virtual machinist, I have a ton of respect for people who have dedicated their whole lives to mastery in any one particular area. To have a machine gulp down untold eons of human exertion and then barf out soulless mimicry, no matter how jaw-dropping of a feat of engineering behind it, and then mint no-talent ass clowns by the million because viral videos make an awesome advertising platform--it's just some kind of dystopian peak tech, except the dystopia is mildly amusing rather than a disappointing and jarring marginalization, flippant dismissal of all of us.