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The best LessWrong find is the Dual n-Back game. re transhumanism if everyone in the US did Dn-B for the next five years you would see a noticeably different kind of society there; even the buildings would look different.

@0bleak where I think there is most scope for electronic diversification is the use of time signatures other than 4/4 but enough people have to do it to actually create a subgenre rather than some Warp guy making a couple of tunes as an experiment.

Basically Conlon Nancarrow

You can legitimately slag yourself off for buying a Status Quo record as your first single - as I did - but Mozart is a fine place for anyone to end let alone start (I presume, I haven't really listened to any of it).

I think what makes the average stuff from their favourite genre tolerable to people is that it has some musical element that is less prominent in other genres e.g. a jungle fan wants to hear breaks 90% of the time; a happy hardcore fan will put up with inconsistent vocal performances in exchange...

Transhumanism, all the nootropic stuff, is just fruitless intensification of competition within an existing cognitive elite. I don't understand why they're starting transhumanism on people rather than trying to upgrade something simpler first as a proof of concept e.g. a snail. All these tech...

Astral Codex Ten is probably the only place on the internet with model communication between strangers on intellectual matters.

He's getting grounded when he gets home.

LessWrong have a bit of a thing for Chesterton's Fence.

@dilbert1 you didn't understand the numbers game point: it's that yes, one can find goodies in other genres the likes of which matches anything one likes in one's own genre, but the eye-opener then is not this other genre but it's particular instantiation and one swallow does not make a summer...

You just don't like much music. Look at @Mr. Tea: presented with a daily platter of the most exotic and delectable musical offerings and his favourite style is still turgid antiquated electronica as long as someone is playing a goddamn bass guitar over it as well.

LessWrong spawned America's foremost public intellectual, 'Scott Alexander'.

LessWrong is where people wanting to be robots worry about robots wanting to be people.

Leave Sus out of this.

I've been on the most musically diverse and recondite space on the internet for 20 years and you tell us what's happened to our preferences over this period.