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Leave Sus out of this.

I've been on the most musically diverse and recondite space on the internet for 20 years and you tell us what's happened to our preferences over this period.

I've already told you I listen to all sorts but it's unlikely I'll be presented with something radically different and if it is radically different the numbers game means there's not going to be much of it.

People are most likely to change a generic preference not because they've found a new genre but because they themselves have changed e.g. most commonly in not being able to put up with extremes of speed or volume any more.

You're quite the caricature. I'm not saying enjoy only what you like now but, logically and empirically, that after a such over a certain period of time what one likes the most is unlikely to be replaced by something the search missed or something new turning up (a superseding novelty is most...

What is required is a brainiac tyro equipped with peerless technical ability, the drive to assimilate the whole tradition and reformulate it in daring and innovative forms. But unlike Andrew Wynn Owen in the poetical arts, this guy uses all that to make complete shite:

But I had diasporated from here to Less Wrong before diasporising back again. If Less Wrong is alt-right because it discusses taboo topics, then this place is far-right.

If you're doing something that is against Islamic teaching of which you are aware, then you are holding the teaching in the same contempt that the popular conception of an Islamophobe would hold explicitly. I think the Koran holds this line, as far as I remember from reading it a long time ago.

Yeah, I do all that, but I still like jungle/dnb best...that's because once you've heard a reasonable amount you have a good feel for what you might like or not. In fact, your moralistic take on what is purely a natural statistical phenomenon somehow succeeds in making the guy who wrote the...

What I'm positing is a counterpart in cultural consumption equivalent 'rational economic man'. Obviously people don't behave quite like 'rational economic man' but they behave roughly like it.

'Calcify' is quite a negative spin on what is just coming to know what one enjoys the most and bringing it into focus - calcification makes it sound like one's missing out on pleasure rather than maximising it, which is what is actually happening.

Take a fishing chair

The other thing is that the well of new genres seems pretty dry, not least because electronic music's possibilities have been exhaustively explored. The mainstream charts are horrifically middle of the road, and the way songs come in and out of popularity ad aeternitatem shows how the music...

You can't play the field forever, lads.

https://www.dissensus.com/threads/17677/

From the biographical intro to Letter to a Priest by Simone Weil: "...in Assissi in 1937 she experienced a religious ecstasy...she had another revelation a year later while reciting George Herbert's poem Love III, after which, she said 'Christ himself came down and took possession of me'"

I don't think people realise just how widespread Islamophobia is in the west. Here's the bottom line: you're Islamophobic when you mock or insult Islam but when you're made aware of Islamic teaching on a particular matter and you choose to ignore it are you not mocking or insulting Islam in...

Have you considered a career in tax accountancy?