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BrowseDuringClass1917 wrote (edited )

Instead, he believes we’ll be listening to custom song equivalents that are automatically designed specifically for each individual, and tailored to their brain, their listening preferences and their particular needs.

He says that like it’s a good thing. This guy sucks

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rot wrote

how is that even possible when our tastes are informed by what we've listened to before? like, most of the music I enjoy is massively influences by the bands of the 70s/ 80s my parents played at home when I was a kid and what I found as a teen.

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celebratedrecluse wrote

For real. That perspective is goofy as fuck. A huge appeal of music is the communion which it brings between people. This reads like the masturbatory fantasy of some tech bro who mansplains to the sex workers he mistreats about how algorithms can engineer love.

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