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New comment by ivjw in "CEO of AI Music Company Says People Don't Like Making Music"

ivjw — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 21:05:55 +0000

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.

New comment by ivjw in "An "oh fuck" moment in time"

ivjw — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 16:43:35 +0000

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.

New comment by ivjw in "I was wrong about the ethics crisis"

ivjw — Sun, 29 Dec 2024 19:49:21 +0000

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 categorical imperative: "Act by the maxim whereby you can at once will that it should become a universal law." The maxim in this case being "optimize for your own benefit."

New comment by ivjw in "I was wrong about the ethics crisis"

ivjw — Sun, 29 Dec 2024 18:44:15 +0000

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 "uninvolved" with the third party, as the definition goes.

New comment by ivjw in "I Was Wrong about the Ethics Crisis (Moshe Vardi, CACM)"

ivjw — Sun, 29 Dec 2024 18:07:55 +0000

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.

New comment by ivjw in "I was wrong about the ethics crisis"

ivjw — Sun, 29 Dec 2024 17:36:05 +0000

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?

New comment by ivjw in "I Was Wrong about the Ethics Crisis (Moshe Vardi, CACM)"

ivjw — Sun, 29 Dec 2024 17:29:45 +0000

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 benefit just as well as the others.

The scales sure can be tipped on the individual level, but you are only considering the "one individual vs. one individual" case. Many cliques of extreme power have been taken down by the weaker majority, which is also one of the processes contributing to the collapse of monopolies.

New comment by ivjw in "I was wrong about the ethics crisis"

ivjw — Sun, 29 Dec 2024 17:08:42 +0000

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 taken care of. The invisible hand is even more free and dexterous on the social scale than the economic.

> the belief in the magical power of the free market always to serve the public good has no theoretical basis. In fact, our current climate crisis is a demonstrated market failure.

The power of the free market is at least as theoretically and empirically sound as the climate crisis.

The Manual (How to Have a Number One the Easy Way)

ivjw — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 11:19:52 +0000

Article URL: https://www.tomrobinson.com/resource/klf.txt

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42398250

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

International House of Logorrhea

ivjw — Wed, 11 Dec 2024 15:02:42 +0000

Article URL: https://phrontistery.info/ihlstart.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42388412

Points: 2

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Constraints That Liberate: Better to Reign in Hell Than Serve in Heaven

ivjw — Tue, 10 Dec 2024 16:21:12 +0000

Article URL: https://thedeepdish.org/better-to-reign-in-hell-than-serve-in-heaven/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42378283

Points: 2

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New comment by ivjw in "Pierre Schaeffer looking back on his career in musique concrète (1987)"

ivjw — Tue, 10 Dec 2024 12:06:26 +0000

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.org/wiki/Symphonie_pour_un_homme_seul

New comment by ivjw in "Sora is here"

ivjw — Tue, 10 Dec 2024 11:12:15 +0000

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 much harder to find for people who don't know the sources.

New comment by ivjw in "Developer wrote 25k lines of Neovim plugin code using phone and touchscreen"

ivjw — Tue, 10 Dec 2024 10:46:31 +0000

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.

New comment by ivjw in "Developer wrote 25k lines of Neovim plugin code using phone and touchscreen"

ivjw — Tue, 10 Dec 2024 09:46:35 +0000

Whenever I want to put something down, I open the browser on my phone, type in the address bar, then hit . Later I synch them along with the other tabs when I have access to the desktop. This routine developed totally unintentionally and has been somehow more productive than all the fancy notetaking apps I'd used. Maybe it's something about the claustrophobically tiny input slot that makes me want to widen it as much as possible. Another bonus is that when I later get to format the long string of text that is synched (as you can see I don't believe in the paragraph when writing on my phone), I get loads of additional ideas.