Recent content by mixed_biscuits

Can someone get the narrative back on track here please?

You're being a trifle snobby about someone with whom you are agreeing.

@Mr. Tea

The practice of 'developing taste' tends to send people towards conformity as they will privilege music they're told they should like over music they're told they shouldn't. What they're conforming to is their target aspirational social group and what they end up with is a marketeer's set of...

Most of my friends have matured from liking some music to not seeming to listen to anything any more. Apart from going to the odd gig. I also know people who have never liked any music; they make me feel like a damn fool for bothering with any of it.

The best LessWrong find is the Dual n-Back game. re transhumanism if everyone in the US did Dn-B for the next five years you would see a noticeably different kind of society there; even the buildings would look different.

@0bleak where I think there is most scope for electronic diversification is the use of time signatures other than 4/4 but enough people have to do it to actually create a subgenre rather than some Warp guy making a couple of tunes as an experiment.

Basically Conlon Nancarrow

You can legitimately slag yourself off for buying a Status Quo record as your first single - as I did - but Mozart is a fine place for anyone to end let alone start (I presume, I haven't really listened to any of it).

I think what makes the average stuff from their favourite genre tolerable to people is that it has some musical element that is less prominent in other genres e.g. a jungle fan wants to hear breaks 90% of the time; a happy hardcore fan will put up with inconsistent vocal performances in exchange...

Transhumanism, all the nootropic stuff, is just fruitless intensification of competition within an existing cognitive elite. I don't understand why they're starting transhumanism on people rather than trying to upgrade something simpler first as a proof of concept e.g. a snail. All these tech...

Astral Codex Ten is probably the only place on the internet with model communication between strangers on intellectual matters.

He's getting grounded when he gets home.

LessWrong have a bit of a thing for Chesterton's Fence.