look but what ultimately is the point? let's say it does render absolutely perfect music. What for? What for? Why have we done any of it? These simulacra of cultural products are no more than seawhitened dry shells on the beach, surely? The animating spark, the squidge and meat and mucus is not there...who are they, who will they, be singing to? Music is not merely a series of sounds but a quickened pulse, a thumping heart, a swell of body fluid that falls as either tear or spunk, sometimes surely both at once, contd. 97 pages, is this the kind of thing you mean (yes that's great /Ed.)
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vladimir, Thu 25 Jun 2026, 21:13,
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The point ultimately is for corporations to stop employing humans to produce content.The point ultimately is for corporations to stop employing humans at all.
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mofaha ┐( ˘_˘)┌ ʅ(́◡◝)ʃ, Thu 25 Jun 2026, 21:21,
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do you know, mofaha, old bean, increasingly I realise nobody has thought any of this through at all
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vladimir, Thu 25 Jun 2026, 21:29,
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Possibly not vlad. I think the noise of the approaching enormous profits makes it difficult to hear anything else. (
mofaha ┐( ˘_˘)┌ ʅ(́◡◝)ʃ, Thu 25 Jun 2026, 23:11,
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That's certainly what Claude said when I raised it with 'him'.(
mofaha ┐( ˘_˘)┌ ʅ(́◡◝)ʃ, Thu 25 Jun 2026, 23:58,
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That would be the bizarre end point if things continue as they are. Right now though, it works. (
mofaha ┐( ˘_˘)┌ ʅ(́◡◝)ʃ, Thu 25 Jun 2026, 23:18,
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for corporations, i mean. microsoft, meta and others have already replaced thousands of jobs with ai, and they're just getting warmed up. And the people who are really driving this are almost entirely insulated from the negative consequences, in the short term anyway .
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mofaha ┐( ˘_˘)┌ ʅ(́◡◝)ʃ, Thu 25 Jun 2026, 23:56,
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