alt Hacker NewsWhy do people listen to new music when there is so much music already?
Perhaps they just enjoy it. Do you reject a beautiful sunset because it was not human generated, or because there have been trillions of sunsets before?
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A sunset isn't art. I am so confused by this analogy.
I listen to music because someone went to the trouble of making music to express themselves, and I'm interested in knowing something of them. You have to put something of yourself into any artistic work for it to have much merit, so what use is the 'art' of something which has no self to me?
The statistical average of what hundreds of millions of artists did cannot be art, because there's no intentionality behind it. There's no statistically average person after all, everyone is a unique collection of memory and temperament which is apparent in the art they create. There is a part of what it means to be human in even the meanest artistic act which I think the output of statistical models necessarily lacks.
Ok i was nerd sniped by the phrase "trillions of sunsets"
how do you count sunsets? is it from one vantage point? in that case, the earth is about 1.7 trillion days old, so there have been roughly that many sunsets. but is someone standing in the opposite hemisphere at the same longitude line seeing the same sunset? maybe, maybe not. also, someone two time zones behind me will see a different sunset; maybe there have been an infinite number of sunsets? maybe just one continuous one that's moving? This is more fun to think about then the things I'm supposed to be thinking about, and more fun then worrying about AI.
Sorry for the rant hackernews, needed to get this impulsive line of thought out.