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With the start of a new year and the second anniversary of LessWrong's first album only about three months away, rationalists should be carefully planning new creative moves. AI music-generation tools are getting better and better. Suno AI is now able to generate eight minutes of decent music from a single prompt. Moreover, AI music-generation is going mainstream. Rationalists making AI music would now have much less impact on public appreciation for rationality and humanity's circumstances.
Seeing the Industrial Revolution happening about him, the Scottish poet Robert Burns in 1788 wrote his well-known hymn Auld Lang Syne. Many persons now sing Auld Lang Syne to commemorate the start of a new year. But they don't yearn for life as it was in the time before the Industrial Revolution. While Burns ultimately failed in promoting romantic nostalgia, everything turned out ok anyway. Could that historical example of creative initiative offer hope for AI alignment?
Dance essentially concerns human bodies and human relations. Human bodies and human relations make humanity special beyond the raw, soon to be inferior, general power of human minds. AI can be trained to be more rational than any rationalist. But AI can't physically dance with other humans in the way humans can. Rationalist should consider how to best dance for humanity in circumstances on impending AI super-intelligence.
With the start of a new year and the second anniversary of LessWrong's first album only about three months away, rationalists should be carefully planning new creative moves. AI music-generation tools are getting better and better. Suno AI is now able to generate eight minutes of decent music from a single prompt. Moreover, AI music-generation is going mainstream. Rationalists making AI music would now have much less impact on public appreciation for rationality and humanity's circumstances.
Seeing the Industrial Revolution happening about him, the Scottish poet Robert Burns in 1788 wrote his well-known hymn Auld Lang Syne. Many persons now sing Auld Lang Syne to commemorate the start of a new year. But they don't yearn for life as it was in the time before the Industrial Revolution. While Burns ultimately failed in promoting romantic nostalgia, everything turned out ok anyway. Could that historical example of creative initiative offer hope for AI alignment?
Technoromaticism isn't enough. With AI-generated music vastly expanding the pool of recorded music, dance halls will never again be as popular as they once were. But you don't need a dance hall to dance. Anyone can dance anywhere.
Dance essentially concerns human bodies and human relations. Human bodies and human relations make humanity special beyond the raw, soon to be inferior, general power of human minds. AI can be trained to be more rational than any rationalist. But AI can't physically dance with other humans in the way humans can. Rationalist should consider how to best dance for humanity in circumstances on impending AI super-intelligence.
We must do better than dancing to Leonard Cohen's Dance Me to the End of Love.