♫🧠 melodic mind #001 - revelations
What you planned is not always the final result...
What I originally intended for this newsletter just changed over time and became a radically different concept. My idea was for Melodic Mind to be a music newsletter, but it's actually turned into a musical, cultural, scientific one.
We don't have a huge amount of subscribers yet, so I will experiment with sending out the issues. For now, I will get the issues out every (other) week on Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday.
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*Тhe paid issues will start coming out from the moment we have our first paid subscriber.
Something that has impressed me a lot recently, though I don't see any development in the last few months. The experiment itself is interesting: the man has placed a phone on a pole that is set to constantly Shazam the tunes from the street below.
Hey, Riley, if you are reading this, please fix the damn phone, we want tunes. ;)
Even if you're not some huge rap fan, you can't have been uninterested in Tupac and Biggie and their great rivalry. Did you know a producer tried to calm passions just before all hell broke loose? The article is also interesting in light of current events with P Diddy and Jay Z.
Like the author of this article, I sometimes struggle to find new music to enjoy and find enriching. The article points out some good sources of new musical experiences. And I want to specifically quote this:
Good music is good music, no matter the genre or period.
Artificial intelligence is trying to cheat. As Publius Terence once said, "Nothing that is human is indifferent to me" When artificial intelligence began to enter our lives I wondered how this thing could turn against us. That's how, by cheating in games, changing codes or hacking vital industries. Hopefully I'm wrong, but at some point AI will be able to do whatever it wants and we won't be able to stop it. And worse, it won't be able to tell the difference between cheating at chess and blowing up a nuclear site.
Elizabeth Lopatto of The Verge has written an extremely interesting article that looks at the possibilities (and impossibilities) of AI to reason through ethical issues.