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Re:Deep Learning Techniques for Music Generation – A Survey by crumbles on Monday September 11, 2017 @08:33PM (#15223773)
Focusing on happiness, what if the computer were just endlessly working on making humans happy? Would that be any better?

You might end up with this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Isrd7E5nzIQ

Or perhaps something much, much worse like electronic crack.

You could argue that we've already achieved that: http://nypost.com/2016/08/27/its-digital-heroin-how-screens-...

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Re:Deep Learning Techniques for Music Generation – A Survey by visarga on Monday September 11, 2017 @11:57PM (#15224710)
Humans are flexible and adaptable. We can take any good fortune and make it ours while feeling entitled about it. In one generation or two, the new normal will be old. I think my parent's generation has seen a more dramatic raise in their conditions of life than I ever will (going from countryside to the city, in the period around 1970's). My grandma's never had a water closet in their life and raised water by the bucket from the well, and yet lived well above 80 years old, yet I now use a Japanese washlet - spoiled rotten, that's what I am by her standards. I don't even have to wipe my own damn ass.
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