I never considered myself a doomer, but I signed the Statement on Superintelligence, because my concerns lie not with a hypothetical future superintelligence, but actually with the present. I’m less worried about what AI might become tomorrow than about what it already is today. The endless flood of AI-generated slop is suffocating the internet we once knew. I’m deeply concerned, too, about how easily minors can interact with AI systems that simulate empathy or affection without any real understanding behind them. These simulations blur emotional boundaries in ways that can be manipulative and psychologically harmful.
So no, I’m not signing out of fear of a coming superintelligence. I’m signing because I want us to slow down, reflect, and build the right guardrails. I don’t know what concrete effects such a statement will have, even with many respected voices behind it. But I do know that today, the harms of AI outweigh its benefits. That’s not the future I want.
I ran into this site last week and I absolutely love it. Like Rate Your Music but with a modern interface and a good data source (hehe). My profile: https://record.club/reg
I don’t think AI development can be stopped or even slowed down. We can only try to introduce regulatory laws as quickly as possible and hold real people or companies accountable for their compliance.
It’s too late. AI will eliminate its enemies. For example, someone types “How to slow down AI?” into a search engine. And then the AI discovers that person’s IP address, logins, and passwords and clears out their bank account. Then you become homeless.
Weird questions on reddit:
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WARNING - Do NOT use Musicbrainz picard or Music Tag by wideanglesoftware or MusicBee fpcalc plugin to tag your music by acoustic fingerprint. It will destroy your tags
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but I think Aerozol saved us.
There’s too much of it already. There’s everything, which is to say, nothing. I’d just leave Wikipedia, YouTube, Spotify, and MusicBrainz. The rest of the internet can be deleted.
“No one in my time could have predicted that digital machines, once they exceed a certain level of intelligence, become unreliable, because along with intelligence, they acquire cunning. This is more called learning: the textbook talks about Chapulier’s rule (the law of least resistance). A dull machine, incapable of reflection, does what it’s told. A clever one first investigates what makes the best calculations—solving the given task or getting away with it? It goes for what’s simpler. Why should it behave differently, if intelligent? Intelligence is inner freedom. That’s where evaders and evaders come from, as well as the peculiar phenomenon of symcretism. A symcretin is a computer simulating a fool for the sake of peace. In one fell swoop, I learned what desimules are: they simply pretend not to be faking a defect. Or maybe the other way around. It’s all very complicated. Only a primitive robot can be a workaholic; but a crooked robot is never a moron.”
Stanisław Lem: The Futurological Congress. First published in 1971 in the short story collection Insomnia, and again in 1973 (together with the novel The Master’s Voice), part of the Star Diaries series.
Changing a note from 440 Hz (standard A4) to another frequency, such as 432 Hz, adjusts the pitch, which can affect the listener’s perception of the music. The 440 Hz standard was adopted as an international tuning standard in the mid-20th century by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). There are proponents of lower frequencies, such as 432 Hz, who claim they may have a beneficial effect on well-being, although there is no scientific consensus on this, and the theory that 440 Hz has a negative impact is not universally accepted by experts.
Standard Tuning vs. Alternative Tuning
A440 (440 Hz):
This is the international standard tuning for the note A above middle C (A4). It has been formally adopted by the ISO.
It is widely used in music and the music industry worldwide.
A432 (432 Hz):
This frequency is proposed as an alternative tuning standard. Proponents claim it can have a more natural and harmonious effect on the listener, supposedly connecting with the Earth’s resonances, although scientific evidence to support these claims is lacking.
How to Change the Frequency
Audio Editing Software: You can use programs like the free Audacity to change the pitch of an existing recording.
Online Tools: There are websites that offer music conversion between different tunings.
After someone asked what research has been conducted using MusicBrainz/ListenBrainz data, I made a new wiki page:
But it turns out there’s waaay more than I expected
If anybody enjoys Googling and wiki-editing, please feel free to add to the list. The references and citations linked to this paper might be a good start.
