[ExI] More thoughts on sentient computers

[William Flynn Wallace]

We judge musicians, actors, writers, all content creators by this standard
already. spike


 I don't.  To me there are no pieces of popular music that can cast a
candle flame on the works of Debussy. All popular music in the 1900s.
All of Debussy.  If one had to go, I'd vote to ditch the popular music.  To
me there are no quantitative measures of aesthetics.  You are just kidding,
of course.


bill w

On Sun, Feb 26, 2023 at 12:40 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <
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> >…So as a matter of calling something creative I think we have to have
> some standards.  Really, really bad art is still art but the level of
> creativity is in question.  An AI winning an art contest is in the same
> category as those prizes won by chimps and elephants.  Let's define
> creativity a bit more strictly, shall we?   bill w
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> I propose as the objective arbiter of graphic art value, the sales price.
> The greatness of the artist then would be a function of total income, which
> takes into account how long it takes to produce the bijou, which determines
> how many such masterpieces can be produced and sold.  We judge musicians,
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