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We can use mathematics to describe the theory behind music but the theory isn't the music itself, nor are the instruments, "mathematical".

When a great performer plays live, they're not generally perfectly reproducing what's written in the musical notation either.

Probably not a straightforward thing to argue about, as I said, I think it's mostly a matter of viewpoints.

My concern is we're going to get to a place where we think the machines can just take over all important professions, but they're not quite there yet, however people don't bother learning those professions because they're a career dead end and then we just end up with a skill shortage and mediocre services, when something goes wrong, you just have to trust "the machine" was correct.

How do we avoid this? Almost like we need government funded "career insurance" or something like this.

I'm not claiming Australian Aboriginals are "magic" but holy shit did they do a great job of looking after ecosystems compared to any modern civilization?

I personally think there was some magic about their way of doing things. The oldest known civilization on Earth which some how didn't destroy the climate, pollute the ocean, poison fish stocks with mercury, kick start mass extinction events and litter the world with microplastics.

I've been to remote parts of Australia where they still have traditional land management practices going on. It's a wonderful thing to see. The forest was so beautiful and pristine looking, it was as if the whole landscape looked like a beautiful garden. It was more inspirational than any city I've seen.

As someone with young kids, I was thinking to myself how absurd our situation is. I wanted to feed my kid some tuna and then I realized that it's not healthy for them to eat it. Can you believe how freaking bad this is? We've poisoned the ocean so badly, kids shouldn't eat from it. It's like the whole of our civilization needs an honest performance review but we're not going to get one because we're also our own manager.

Yes of course, mathematics is used in the design of the instrument but it's not really a "mathematical" / precise device in the same way a calculator is, nor does a good musician conform to mathematics only when expressing themselves using the instrument.

In traditional musics, people use stones which when hit will make a sound that might conform to some frequency, but I wouldn't think the stone is "mathematical"?

I completely understand math is involved in Western and Eastern musical theory, but a saxophone being "mathematical" ? My trumpets and saxophones will only play the correct tones if I work with it to do so.

Disclaimer: been playing sax, trumpet since I was 6.

This is why we don't listen to MIDI tracks all day they are a purely mathematical interpretation of a song and they're mostly terrible.

My fathers generation was, most people were very concerned at the idea of there being no more ICE vehicles on the road, as if something important was being taken away from them from a cultural standpoint.

Feels like management is being extra careful but if the plane is a dog and has been optimised to keep the bean counters happy. Maybe these quality issues will crop up for years ?

I didn't agree with the doomerism for Meta either but just as easily something wild could change next week that sinks the stock.

I don't see what they've really done differently in the last 6-12 to be really honest. Maybe "AI" will save the Metaverse is about all I've heard?

There's nothing much else going on social media wise so it will be a safe bet, but why should it maintain that price forever ?

Many many people are doing this already.

Have you thought this through though? I mean you'd first have to know in what way to improve, which would become more challenging as you became more perfect, you'd have to want to become perfect (which let's be honest might be boring) and then I guess there's the fact that if you kept evolving / improving yourself exponentially, then you'd no longer exist because you'd likely be morphing into other forms all the time?

In a way, maybe the only thing I can think of that is observably doing something like this is the universe itself.