And what happens when AGI solves art? This seems to be a neglected area, but does music really need to be recorded? What if it were possible for a program to distinguish good music from bad, or equivalently, create good music? How could human artists compete with machines that can customize their work for each individual in real time?
My point is, that doesn't matter. I know I'll never be as good as Bach, Jimi Hendrix or Dave Brubeck, but I play the keyboard anyway... and I compose music anyway too, just because I love to... Art is done for the love of doing it, not just out of the desire to excel... And I like listening to my son's musical compositions because HE made them, not because I think they're objectively the best in the world... And I like playing music together with other people because of the social communication and sharing involved ... so I would rather jam with an imperfect human than with a better musician who was an emotionless (or alienly emotional) robot... I would have less incentive to prove theorems if I could just feed the statements to Mathematica and let it prove them for me... but I wouldn't have less incentive to improvise on the keyboard if I could just tell the computer to improvise for me... Psychologically, art feels to me like a different sort of animal... But of course, attitudes may vary... I plan to upload myself and become transhuman anyway, but maybe the Ben-version who stays a mostly-unimproved human will become a full-time musician ;-) ... Hell, with a few thousand years practice, he may even become a good one!!! -- Ben G ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?member_id=4007604&user_secret=8eb45b07
