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Does the technical skill give you better judgement though? Can a masterchef make better Star Trek replicator meals?

kusokurae 1y ago
I think the reality is that, this notion of "democratising" various technical mediums is used to gloss over that, as countless studies have now evidenced, humans primarily learn and remember well thing by doing things, not merely passively consuming them. Fine-precision decision-making will likely always be the domain of dedicated tooling designed to better correspond with the particular medium or task -- that is, manual testing and experimentation, not relying on logocentric prompt idolatry. When we get into literature, visual art etc. it becomes more of a problem. You can't get Cormac McCarthies or Mars Voltas from software designed to give you perfect statistical 50% grey, and people who try and hack it without doing the reading, are going to end up writing gibberish. People who actually enjoy and like art, music whatever are going to grow Very bored with the overwhelming majority of work reliant of primarily generative methods, save for those who already have discretion learned through experience of many tools and other means of expression.
12112521312 1y ago
Yes, really good pianist often compose music that is interesting, that other composers don't make ( e.g. Listz, Alkan ). In jazz, nothing can replace practicing your improv skills.
- drewhk 1y ago
  Also, judgement alone might not be enough. Judgement can take you to "something is off", but not necessarily further. I mix music as a hobby and it takes a good amount of practice to step up from recognizing the presence of a problem to actually know where and how to fix it. If you don't know where you should look, you just aimlessly try various things, and it is not unusual to make the problem worse. Eventually you learn to properly recognize the problems, not just their presence, but their actual nature and implications. But this takes practice.

I think the reality is that, this notion of "democratising" various technical mediums is used to gloss over that, as countless studies have now evidenced, humans primarily learn and remember well thing by doing things, not merely passively consuming them. Fine-precision decision-making will likely always be the domain of dedicated tooling designed to better correspond with the particular medium or task -- that is, manual testing and experimentation, not relying on logocentric prompt idolatry. When we get into literature, visual art etc. it becomes more of a problem. You can't get Cormac McCarthies or Mars Voltas from software designed to give you perfect statistical 50% grey, and people who try and hack it without doing the reading, are going to end up writing gibberish. People who actually enjoy and like art, music whatever are going to grow Very bored with the overwhelming majority of work reliant of primarily generative methods, save for those who already have discretion learned through experience of many tools and other means of expression.

12112521312 1y ago

Yes, really good pianist often compose music that is interesting, that other composers don't make ( e.g. Listz, Alkan ). In jazz, nothing can replace practicing your improv skills.

drewhk 1y ago
Also, judgement alone might not be enough. Judgement can take you to "something is off", but not necessarily further. I mix music as a hobby and it takes a good amount of practice to step up from recognizing the presence of a problem to actually know where and how to fix it. If you don't know where you should look, you just aimlessly try various things, and it is not unusual to make the problem worse. Eventually you learn to properly recognize the problems, not just their presence, but their actual nature and implications. But this takes practice.