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by ivjw 2y ago
Even if the process isn't particularly pleasant, the result often is. Unlike with AI, whose output is often bland. In my experience making music, specially the more experimental kind, is therapeutic for the musician.
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by ivjw 2y ago
This is no ingenious feat by any standard, except probably for someone in the Dunning–Kruger dip. https://gwern.net/creative-benchmark I can't wait to see if AI can get past its centripetal plateau.
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by ivjw 2y ago
You need not. It's evident to any reader that some models can take more into account without overloading, including the "access" variable you introduced ex post facto. What I suggested is an instance of Kant's categorica
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by ivjw 2y ago
Unless you are studying an a priori science, textbook examples are pedagogical simplifications. Yes, the cost of environmental pollution is paid neither by factories nor their customers, yet both suffer the consequences, and as such are not
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by ivjw 2y ago
None, but that's exactly the point. _Everyone_ would like to have more of it. This is a unifaceted way of posing problems, often also done with monopolization.
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by ivjw 2y ago
How is the environment, which is directly of concern to the primary economic sector, and to the entire economic enterprise in the long run, an externality?
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by ivjw 2y ago
It is not as simple as "my profit" vs. "others' expense". The elegance of the invisible hand theory is that it also accounts for the cases where others' expense is my expense and others' benefit is my bene
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by ivjw 2y ago
I agree with the author that questions of ethics are social optimization problems. > We must balance optimizing for oneself with optimizing for others Yet if each person would optimize for themself, then the balancing is automatically ta
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The Manual (How to Have a Number One the Easy Way)(tomrobinson.com)
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International House of Logorrhea(phrontistery.info)
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Constraints That Liberate: Better to Reign in Hell Than Serve in Heaven(thedeepdish.org)
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by ivjw 2y ago
Another one of his notable—and slightly more accessible for the uninitiated—pieces is the composition Symphonie pour un homme seul (with Pierre Henry): https://youtube.com/watch?v=MOYNFu45khQ https://en.wikipedia
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by ivjw 2y ago
I was searching recently for a photograph of Arthur Rimbaud in his later years, and noticed that already Google Images was flooded with AI-generated stuff from websites that do not require marking it as such. Authentic material will soon be
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by ivjw 2y ago
They're mostly intended for online publication, so Google will have them sooner or later. Yet with personal stuff I'm more discreet, of course.
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by ivjw 2y ago
Whenever I want to put something down, I open the browser on my phone, type in the address bar, then hit <CR>. Later I synch them along with the other tabs when I have access to the desktop. This routine developed totally unintentiona
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Growing up with Moby Dick(justinkuiper.substack.com)
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Languages are efficient, but for whom? [pdf](pages.ucsd.edu)
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Online Tone Generator(szynalski.com)
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by ivjw 2y ago
I wondered this too. I think twelve minutes after submission it went from 1 point to 37 points.
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Pierre Schaeffer looking back on his career in musique concrète (1987)(paul.mycpanel.princeton.edu)
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Why Poetry Is Dying(expansivepoetryonline.com)
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