What's the reason we haven't had a Mozart or Shakespeare since? Population of world has >10x and yet...?

My guess is we have - they're just in medicine or oil or software. But still... the sheer number of writers and musicians has surely also 100x... where are they?Because the talent of those artists is greatly exaggerated. They had access via ( Read more... )

With the Sydney Sweeney pictures out, people are once again arguing that "porn brain" or "porn addiction" is the cause of men who (I agree, wrongly) criticize her looks ( Read more... )

After years of talking to Trump supporters my view of them has become very simple ( Read more... )

My problem with Christmas music is that there isn’t enough of it, but I don’t mean it because really love Christmas music, just that there’s a finite amount of covers of Last Christmas a person can hear in a day before they start wishing this really is their last Christmas. And I like that song!

Imagine you enter a culture where everyone's real embarrassed about their feet. They have special baggy shoe covers to hide their feet, showing people your feet is considered intense and weird, you're supposed to politely ignore feet, people use euphemisms for the word 'walking ( Read more... )

More music is made in a single day now than in the entire year of 1989 and it's becoming a problem. By 2030 we'll have more people making music than the entire population of Russia. But it's actually hurting the industry more than it helps it ( Read more... )

An asshole on my side is a random asshole, an asshole on your side is emblematic of everything that's wrong about you and your ilk.

Trying to “build AGI before China” is like the Indians who helped the British take over India.

They didn’t feel like they were helping a foreign civilization with advanced technology take over. They thought they were being strategic. They wanted to help the British destroy those other Indians. You know, that villainous outgroup. Which the British ( Read more... )

Believing you have only one option is dangerous ( Read more... )

If you try singing "ah" on the same pitch 5 different ways (imitate 5 different people) you'll find how much control you have over finessing your sound. You have to set your array of sounds free in order to start to understand them.

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A REALLY interesting thing I discovered a few years ago is that people's range of what they're capable of doing ( Read more... )