Andrew McCluskey

Glut is never cool. And to be entertained, humans need some form of novel or complex stimulus that goes beyond what they already know. And you can't just "tune the AI" to be innovative, since we only accept idiosyncratic artistic decisions when we feel human intention behind them.

I suspected that a community can never get strong as a monolith, which has nothing to do but support the leader; the real way for it to grow is to incentivize sub-groups to form up and compete in team sports. We’re a tribal species, after all.

Eno sought to create music that could be interrupted at any time (for flight announcements and such) without in any way harming the music. Also, since the music would probably be talked over, none of the instruments or frequencies matched the sound of the average human voice so there would be no need to compete for sonic space. He also noticed that... See more