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Dissonance – A Journey Through Musical Possibility Space

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Re: Dissonance – A Journey Through Musical Possibility Space

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Post by coldtea »

optimalsolver wrote: post #8
wrp wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Humans have been experimenting with the production of rhythmic sounds for aesthetic effect for millennia. Considering the extensive search through possibility space that this represents, I'm skeptical that a machine aided search could discover new local optima with a significantly greater aesthetic effect.

Human were also searching the space of Go moves for centuries, but AI completely blew us away. It turns out that some search spaces are far richer than we imagine.

That's because the space of Go moves is a mechanical endeavour in itself, not very different from doing accounting, with no emotional or cultural element

Re: Dissonance – A Journey Through Musical Possibility Space

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Post by marcAKAmarc »

yowlingcat wrote: post #4
optimalsolver wrote: post #2

Music scientist Phillip Dorrell [0] has argued for the existence of currently hypothetical "strong music," a class of musical stimuli presumably discoverable by strong AI. The idea makes sense if you accept the concept of "intelligence explosion." Any property, in this case the rewarding effect of acoustic stimuli in humans, can be powerfully maximized. There must exist patterns in music-space that would have profoun…

```My name is Philip Dorrell. I currently work as a software development contractor. Although my only formal qualification is a B.Sc (mathematics) from the University of Waikato, New Zealand, I have always had an interest in the fields of science, mathematics, and various other fields not commonly thought of as being scientific or mathematical, but I prefer to approach them that way anyway. My current email address c…

Only maybe though

Re: Dissonance – A Journey Through Musical Possibility Space

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Post by yowlingcat »

marcAKAmarc wrote: post #12
yowlingcat wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

```My name is Philip Dorrell. I currently work as a software development contractor. Although my only formal qualification is a B.Sc (mathematics) from the University of Waikato, New Zealand, I have always had an interest in the fields of science, mathematics, and various other fields not commonly thought of as being scientific or mathematical, but I prefer to approach them that way anyway. My current email address c…

Only maybe though

Can you not make a lazy vacuous comment and instead use your words to substantiate what you think?
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