We now have a tsunami of entertainment at our fingertips, and most of it is worthless crap. You're entitled to your opinion as to what is good, but your enthusiasm doesn't equate with greatness. A three-note melody sung by a weak, auto-tuned voice amidst highly-mixed electronic instruments doesn't deserve anything more than a phone and a pair of wireless earbuds. You spend most of your time scrolling to find your next trivial listening experience (only it's probably a video of provocative dancers prancing around amidst an overload of visuals.)
I miss scarcity
This is not a complaint. Or, if it is a complaint, it's half-aimed at me. Mostly this is a reflection.
In the old days, I got to know music really well -- in great detail, sonically, musically, reading all the credits, the liner notes, etc. A friend would have an album I didn't, so I'd go to his house to listen. We'd talk about the music. We'd talk about how album sides hung together or didn't. We were thrilled by double albums.
Now, a torrent of information is everywhere. I listen alone, often to a single song, often not listening to anything over and over again.
You will tell me, "That's your choice." I'd half agree. It's like agreeing that "It's my choice not to live off the electrical grid."
As I read and teach about AI, I am learning that our tools often prioritize speed and information glut. It seems, initially, like a cornucopia but it becomes a wash of "content." I must admit, I'm losing my talent for managing all this content, and I'm losing my love for it. And it's making me into a different person, somewhat, and I am not so sure I want to be that person. End of reflection.
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@goodlistening64 you probably misunderstood me. I work on and write and deploy code on the high side every week. I know exactly how it works.
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The real threat from A.I. is not Terminator, or comic book or bad S-F way of describing a bad robot thaking control as Hal in Kubrick masterpiece. The real threat is way more invisible and way more deeper in his action than killing us with the control over atomic missiles... The real threat is the change in our creativity and spirit occurring by the way we will discharge ourselves of writing, reading, and thinking, feeling and willing ... I dont speak about the very few ( like Terence Tao using A.I. this year) able to use A.I. as a tool but about the mass of people with no more works, no more goal, no more real relation, becoming more uneducated than ever and becoming slaves of their own virtual vices and easier than ever to control, the "useless eaters" described by oligarchs... A.I. advent is less a technological feat than a spiritual event...Most dont even see it, conditioned by medias in the reinforced confusion between knowledge, science and technology when wisdom is evacuated from the equation ...Techno-cultism is a banner for all ... Yes education with A.I. could be good, but education was never about learning something, it was way more deep than just learning, education begin before college by the way, and only human can transmit it to the young under some age... Yes we can cure cancer with A.I. it is a good idea and useful tool, but we did not need A.I. to eliminate cancer to begin with anyway it is a society choice (big pharma, big agronomy etc why do you think we develop cancer so much ? no need to own A.I. for the answer ) ... I am not a Luddite. But we must be a fool not to see the huge negative impact and threat of a race, not for a tool (specialized A.I. engines ) but a race by hubris for a new God ( A.I. as a super agent not a tool)... A speaking God...Controlled by the idiotic uneducated very rich oligarchs behind the race... Among the few rare scientists enlightened soul is Yoshua Bengio a Turing prize winner very distressed by this race and folly ...
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