Thoughts

So, https://youtube.com/shorts/c5C-n9LwUOA?si=QxBqRSx7mm08KoRG

I agree.. Almost. With the premise. But.. But but.. And I say this with all due admiration and respect for all the musicians who’ve made great music in the past. You all have also made music that has always been derivative.

This happened to me over the past several months.. And it was a slightly disappointing experience. I was figuring out the chords and tabs for all my favorite songs (all the awesome top 500 rock bangers we have come to call innovative and… To the outside listening in.. Not deep in the music industry.. Non derivative). And every time I would be surprised that.. It’s the same damn blues progressions or chords being used. Again and again and again. Change the tempo a bit.. And voila new song. I am of course over simplifying it.. But if we are talking derivative .. Then, come on.

Working Draft of the thought I had.

This started when I was watching a video about the Juno and Galileo missions and a thought occurred in my simple human brain: “I have an intuition to disprove that we (humans) live in a simulation. The way it could work is to posit a series of experimental setups for actual simulations of any complex computations as possible where these environments will always return true.. But that a reality world we have come to understand (the universe) would return false on.”

This was the seeded thought. What exactly about the video of Juno and Galileo made me think of that ? I don’t really remember / know. Maybe seeing the simulations of gravitational forces of Jupiter or the Io Moon and Jupiter’s couplings made me re-think of simulation theory in general. Or maybe I had a good night’s sleep ? I don’t know. Either way, now that I have a solid solution for my ADHD brain (in the name of the all mighty and powerful LLM :P), I’ve come up with a working draft. (attached below)

Can we prove that we do not live in a Simulation ? And this is a bounded question. I am not saying, we will prove that we are not in a ‘dream world’ and by waking up, we ‘snap out’ of this dream world. No. What I am interested in, is this universe we currently observe a simulated (computationally simulated) universe. Because simulation has a very specific meaning, and gets conflated with all kinds of ‘imaginary’ ideas of what a ‘simulation’ is. If we can prove this, then at least, a huge chunk of the anxiety inducing sci-fi becomes irrelevant; and on top of that list, the Matrix :D

My latest 3 blog posts all started cuz of this comment. 😂

Just for the record!

A comment about my latest blog on Jung: Abstraction isn’t the enemy. Science runs on abstractions. Genes, species, markets, memory, intelligence—none of these are tiny physical objects you can pull out and put on a table. The question isn’t whether an abstraction is “real.” The question is what work it does. Does it compress observations? Generate predictions? Connect to measurable mechanisms? Survive attempts to prove it wrong? A good abstraction earns its existence.

Working on Still Here, it’s coming along well - adding more features, getting Mochi (the animatronic helper) to be more useful - baking in a cognitive test in the chat with Mochi itself so he/she can check in on me and test my reaction times, cognitive abilities and make judgments for me.

I had to plug my brand new lexar 2 TB disk into a low-life windows pc. I felt so dirty! ewwww

One of the coolest realizations I have had (Besides all the magical coding that the LLMs are able to do), is that .. I can speak in all the languages I know, mix and match, and it’ll be able to keep up! It talks in all the languages too.

“Apps” on a “Phone” are going to become a very ’legacy’ concept soon. The idea of UI gen on the fly based on requirements and an open-agentic platform that drives the flow of “work” (work in quotes because it can be actual official work, or your personal work, or anything you want to do interacting with the web-of-agents (called it, coined it, copyrighted, fuck you all :D)) is going to be the next thing. I don’t even know if Gen UI will be needed anyway. Maybe voice is enough. But, no… UI will be needed. Humans are visual creatures and in fact, some commands are best given through visual interactions than verbal communique. So yeah, maybe Gen-UI will be a mode of communication. But static apps ? I mean, in 2018, I had worked hard on building an app for the Land Department of Ajman that is completely dynamic. That was a glorious project - and I’d say, yet again, I was about 8 years ahead of my time! #ai #gen-ui #web-of-agents #ahead-of-my-time #brainfart #maybe-a-blog

I’m going to try something with suno, a fusion between having a dirbakeh for percussion, a flamenco style rhythm guitar, and an overdriven lead guitar over a chord progression that shifts microtonally .. let’s see how that goes.

one of the outputs

and another one, where i modified the prompt to add some more dynamics

This is a thought from my telegram

This idea that AI generated content is ‘slop’ vs human generated content being of ‘substance’ is such a sad and ’losing’ stance. It’s the same knee-jerk reaction by humans when they feel attacked. When drum machines came into existence, then ‘real musicians’ hated on them, when photoshop made the rounds, photographers cried, when cameras became a thing, artists cried. It’s always been like this. Any modern technology that somehow takes on human-centric tasks (and of course, does them way better than human hand-skill alone) becomes a thing to be feared, till of course the inevitable. It becomes commonplace and people forget they hated on it - till the next thing. And this is exactly what’s happening with ai. Now, this was me writing this purely ‘human-like’, I’m going to post this as a thought, then I’m going to have an ai make a full fledged blog-post out of it. Let’s see how unsubstance like it will be.

Video from telegram straight to my static site? #experiments

first post from my phone #telegram

Let there be AI. And so there was. And I feel resurrected.