psytrancefan

It does make me question humans and thinking but in the opposite direction.

It is like sitting down at a piano, sight reading a piece from sheet music and then someone who has no idea what they are talking about claiming you composed the music on the fly. Then when you point out the sheet music they just double down on some bullshit as to why they are still right and that is still composing even though obviously it is not.

I think it is pretty cool for the first time trying something like this.

It seems like chain of thought combined with search. Seems like it looks for 30 some references and then comes back with an overview of what it found. Then you can dig deeper from there to ask it something more specific and get 30 more references.

I have learned a shitload already on a subject from last night and found a bunch of papers I didn't see before.

Of course, depressed, delusional, baby Einsteins in their own mind won't be impressed with much of anything.

Edit: I just found the output PDF.

You also didn't have "sampler music". People did creative things with samplers but people didn't seek out music based on the sampler.

As mentioned, current AI music is listening to recordings of Muzak like what they use to play in elevators and at Dennys.

I would say the progress in AI music is basically non-existent. Ironically, MusicLM can make some very unique and interesting sample material. The more popular models though are just slop.

This is my first time using anything from Perplexity and I am liking this quite a bit.

There seems to be such variance in the utility people find with these models. I think it is the way Feynman wouldn't find much value in what the language model says on quantum electrodynamics but neither would my mom.

I suspect there is a sweet spot of ignorance and curiosity.

Deep Research seems to be reading a bunch of arXiv papers for me, combining the results and then giving me the references. Pretty incredible.

EXACTLY.

I suspect there has been a decade long Three-card monte on the front end in that change is good because change keeps front end salary up.

Personally, the sooner LLMs make all front end developers unemployed the better.

It all comes down to a religious faith in AGI or not.

There can't be things that a human can program that AGI can not program or it is not "AGI".

While I am never a true believer in AGI, it seems to go I get a little faith when a new model comes out then I become increasingly agnostic the weeks and months after that. Repeat.

It is just very random. LLMs help me write a synthesizer using an odd synth technique in an obscure musical programming language with no problem, help me fix my broken linux system no problem but then can't do anything right with the python library pyro. I think it is why people have such different experiences. It all depends randomly on how what you want to solve lines up with what the models are good at.

I think you are not understanding how difficult it is for people with types of phobias about germs and illness.

Imagine being obsessive compulsive about cleanliness and germs, then the pandemic comes along. You would never recover from that experience psychologically.

It would be worse than if someone with ophidiophobia woke up one day and snakes were randomly falling from the sky.

The worst of all though is an infection with no symptoms. Like an invisible prison the germ freak can never escape from.

What is bizarre is we pretend there aren't at least hundreds of thousands of people in the country with these type of phobias.

I think the use cases are just too wide and varied. If someone made me the perfect DAW for my needs, it would be so narrow they would quickly go out of business.

The DAW has to cover so many different use cases and styles that I don't see how you can get around the complexity upfront.

A 6 year old could plug in a guitar and record the audio with any editing software. Once you want multiple tracks though and real time effects on those tracks and midi then you are already at the flavor of most DAWs.

Can't agree more. Might be the most crazy thing I have ever seen done in the browser.

It actually demotivates me to work on music and motivates me to work on some web app ideas.

I am not sure who the audience is though either. Reaper works wonderfully on Linux.

The issue is any DAW or really any musical instrument is massive investment in time to learn to be good. The money isn't really the bottleneck. I can easily get a reasonably priced flute on ebay. The reason I don't play the flute is because the amount of time involved to learn to play it.

You don't know this though with even a high probability.

It is quite possible there is a cultural reaction against AI and that we enter a new human cultural golden age of human created art, music, literature, etc.

I actually would bet on this as engineering skills become automated that what will be valuable in the future is human creativity. What has value then will influence culture more and more.

What you are describing seems like how the future would be based on current culture but it is a good bet the future will not be that.

The inflation rate is an index over a huge number of datasets.

If a single stock I own that is in the S&P 500 has a bad year while the S&P 500 index still goes up it doesn't mean the index is wrong or useless. It means you don't understand the calculation method and purpose of the index.

I have thought a lot about this and it is why I think remote is doomed long term at the mass market because of a type of scaling property.

I am much more productive working remote. It isn't even close.

The dysfunctional slacker at the office though can get some productivity squeezed out of them at the office. Remote, they are completely useless and dysfunctional.

Then take the average worker with kids who can save a ton of money by not sending the kid to daycare and the loss of productivity from that.

At some scale, the productivity increases do not make up for the productivity loss in aggregate. The more you scale up, the worse it gets.

Remote is only going to work long term for small organizations who won't be much effected by this scaling property.

How about mind your own business?

The main problem to me is everyone wants to tell everyone else what to do "for the good of society" but over my lifetime this has been a slow acting cultural poison.

Less than 20 years ago it cost me $7 a trade for one side and that was the cheap revolutionary price for the retail investor. Today it cost me ZERO. That is because of hedge funds. I doubt this will last forever because someone will come along and "fix" what is not broken "for the good of society".

We take the affordability completely for granted also.

It looks like in the 70s a flight from NY to LA was $1000 USD adjusted for inflation.

My grandfather took a flight one time in his life, near the end of his life. Why? Because most of his life he couldn't afford it.

IMO it was just the strongest model for awhile for programming. It got the answers right more often than not.

It is faster than the reasoning/chain of thought models. With current o1 and DeepSeek though I haven't logged into Claude in a few weeks.

I have no inside knowledge but I am kind of expecting Sonnet chain of thought any day now and I am sure that will be incredible.

I would be pretty shocked if the Anthropic reasoning model is not mind blowing and doesn't take the lead back.

You probably haven't heard of the com if you have a sex life.

Thanks. I had not seen the wait paper yet. That is crazy.

s1: Simple test-time scaling https://arxiv.org/pdf/2501.19393

At this point I think it is because of a type of religious sentimentality about the sanctity of human reasoning.

To take your analogy even further, it is like asking when is the plane going to improve enough that it can really fly by flapping it's wings.

This app is as interesting as Pollocks's art. A few moments of "interesting" then you close the browser and move on.

I think it probably correlates with low openness. If you are low in openness, I could see psychedelics having long lasting effects on a person's personality. I have never found the effects to be lasting at all either but my openness is already at 11. If anything, I probably need less.

I wouldn't do Ketamine because I know for a certain type of person, they instantly fall in love with "spiritual heroin". I know almost for certain I am that type of person.

In most US states you would certainly not want to get caught by law enforcement with 99 grams of mushrooms.

$3,500 seems like they are catering towards an upper class customer with some kind of premium session. I am certain there would be many in Oregon of all places willing to play shaman for much less. The price of shrooms is not the cost though. How much would you need to get paid to trip sit a stranger for 5-6 hours? I am doing nothing this afternoon and $200 an hour doesn't sound worth it if someone offered $1200 right now. That is a lot to deal with. $3,500 is therapy session with a licensed therapist who is going to be very specialized.

No, you aren't understanding the point.

The point is to make something stripped down compared to Reaper. The problem with modern DAW software is you end up getting lost in the infinite possibilities.

It is counter intuitive but constraints are a known aid to creativity.

If you want to write notes, this is the way to do it. Otherwise you get lost picking effect,synths, samples , on and on and on.

The idea would be to write the notes then you take the midi into something like Reaper.

If the author reads this what it really just needs is a microtuning import for scala scl files. There is absolutely nothing that can do this easily for non 12 tet music and just have the notes in front of you without much else.

Surely a side project. It is actually really good too.

There is quite a problem with creativity being stifled by the infinite possibilities of a modern DAW.

Everything feels super fast and responsive on it too. I am going to spend a good amount of time in this.

Helio is a desktop app that is down this line but more complicated and not as easy to use. This just all makes sense if you know how a piano roll is going to work.

I suspect there is a bimodal distribution here.

Eggs are perfectly fine if you don't have a genetic predisposition to high cholesterol.

My genes are bad though for this so eating a 180mg of cholesterol an egg is kind of foolish. If I want to raise my cholesterol on a blood test, I can't think of anything better than eating a ton of eggs. Of course not all the cholesterol is absorbed but if even 10% is 18mg an egg I don't need.

Personally, I quit eating cheese and eggs to avoid having to be on a statin. It has worked so for on a blood test.

The bet is stupid.

David Lynch The Grandmother would be considered a "masterpiece" by this definition.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4y0rYWVcxF4

Anyone could make something along those lines right now with AI tools. The ratings is because of what the fame David Lynch achieved after making this.

AI video is going to stall bad because it is just too expensive and what we have now is complete trash. Sora is such a massive disappointment to anyone who was interested in doing exactly what is being described.

This is all the Curtis Yarvin influence. There is that period in US history that the president was acting more like a king, Taft to FDR. They were doing much more executive orders then that we have been use to the past 80 years.

It all is quite unsettling. Then the fact it is Trump doing this is just something else all together too.

I am a bit worried how the country is going to deal with this level of change. We aren't even 3 weeks in.

Totally agree. It is really in both sides interest to make TSMC irrelevant in Taiwan and avoid WW3.

So we will have a cold war, trade war and saber rattling until that time.

Then when the chips don't matter someday Taiwan will become old news to western minds like Iraq is today. When China takes Taiwan it will barely be a western news story because right now will feel so long in the past.