I’d say it’s required that you experience or feel something powerful. Suffering counts. Joy, love (no songs about that!), awe, anger, patriotic fervor, whatever

I’d say it’s required that you experience or feel something powerful. Suffering counts. Joy, love (no songs about that!), awe, anger, patriotic fervor, whatever. I agree with him about the poetry produced by LLMs. I’ve tried it too. What comes out just feels like what it is: a mathematical average of other peoples poetry. It’s devoid of feeling. The same thing happens when I try those music making LLMs. They’re great for doing meme level funny stuff. Like a friend of mine had one make a pouty country song about panels falling off someone’s cybertruck “like tears in my beer.”