toofy

> … and the Spotify algorithm is either bad in finding new stuff I like or always pushing the same 20 songs that I've listened too much.

yeah, it’s terrible. just plain none of the streaming services algorithms are any good, at all. apple has been the best i’ve found, but it’s still not very good.

the best methods by far are what i imagine theyve always been:

- talk to music nerds at your local record store if you have one. record stores are coming back in a big way in most mid-sized plus cities. if you’re too shy to talk to the people, most will have a wall with employee recommendations. but keep in mind, just talk to them, they like talking about music the way we like talking about computers. if you’re lucky they’ll sound to you the same way we sound when we talk to normies about tech, like gobblygook. hang in there.

- people. talk to other people. big bonus multiplier if they’re actually music wonks.

- college radio stations. they still have actual djs who play the music they actually like.

- go to concerts at your local venue. obviously, not cover bands lol.

- look up indie labels (i don’t mean indie music genre, i mean non-corporate) and watch their web pages for new releases. (a lot of them don’t have much of a social media presence so watch their web pages for their releases) non-corporate labels are the only ones putting out anything good at the moment.

as the author points out, its commercial trash music that is collapsing. and as they point out, indie music is thriving, as is live music.

concerts here in my area for non corporate trash bands are regularly selling out shows.

none of this should surprise anyone. these corporate labels entirely gutted their A&R departments and now tilt their heads in confusion that they have no good music.

they thought an industry that literally revolves around humans could be replaced by algorithms and then tilt their heads again wondering why people run fast and far.

what they did would be like if a lifetime wedding planner who had never coded in their life, doesn’t understand technology at all yet convinced themselves they could totally write a secure messenger app because they like talking to friends in whatsapp.

a bunch of VC class who don’t care about (or understand) music are confused why their music corporations are failing.

it certainly does when i think of quality of life.

a lot of people unironically believe this or even worse, many of the same people seem to be arguing for a new monarchy lately lol.

i keep telling them they’re free to have their own personal monarchy in their own family as long as people are free to leave and also to leave the rest of us out of it. but for some reason they don’t seem to like the idea as much then.

> The fact we have so many people dedicated to one short movie is amazing and in my eyes always worth the effort.

i’m convinced this is where much of the magic comes from.

it’s the same as why often music written and played by an group of musicians who specialize in their instrument is often so much better than the music from a solo who records each instrument themselves.

> I fail to see an argument against a non-human dictator.

You should feel free to let one be your dictator. No one is stopping you.

If you’re looking for an argument against it: the instant you believe other people should be forced to live under a dictator if they choose not to is all the argument against it you need.

Again, no one is stopping you from living under a dictator ai. Have at it.

> What stopped them from building the systems competently when they were employed?

managers, accountants, c-suite, sales dept, shareholders, stock-must-go-up, etc...

its no secret the industry wide trash of "move fast and break things" has been the mantra far too often as opposed to "take the time to build it correctly"

for much of the industry its "ship features. now."

we regularly read here how often engineer's concerns are ignored by company salesmen and executives.

> I don’t give two shits if the website author thinks…

fair, just don’t cry when website owners don’t “give two shits” about your concerns.

the same reason a greasy used car salesman goes on an on and on.

> the elites are categorically better, on average

this is quite the statement. i can think of many, many ways they are not categorically “better” … many ways.

i can think of a number of “peasants” who are categorically “better” than “elites” in many, many areas.

i mean, i think most of us here have personally met at least one or two absolute failsons who are absolute dipshits yet will always fall upwards due to who their families are.

>… and careful, time-consuming planning …

without snark, how can we do this if these people are obsessed with:

a) move fast and break things and externalize the costs to those who have nothing to do with their company

and

b) beta testing their products on the public when the public hasn’t agreed to be beta tested on…

depending on which model one is using, and the error the employee needs to be retrained on, i strongly disagree that you can retrain an llm as easily as you can a person.

particularly most of the commercial models.

again, i’m sure we can all come up with a thousand “hypotheticals”, and tbh, the hypothetical parade is not something i’m interested in having. but i’ll state again, “entirely removing humans” from the situation is silly-tier thinking.

particularly as even the ceos of sota frontier producing models will each and every single one tell you to never trust their model.

“our model is smartest thing in the world…”

…next breath..

“wait, you trusted our model? that was silly of you. always double check it”

i most certainly did not say or imply:

> We shouldn't use an LLM because...LLMs never improve?

the context of my response was “removing humans from the equation” is sillytier thinking.

not “We should never use LLMs”

> We shouldn't use an LLM because...LLMs never improve?

i didn’t say this at all. did you respond to the wrong comment?

i was responding to the comment which said:

> … remove humans from the equation, then.

i think you might accidentally be conflating an algorithm with the colloquial use of ai.