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C is one of the hardest keys to play in on the piano

Can you elaborate on your thinking here? I really feel C is the easiest (in standard major tonality - obviously C minor, blues scale etc are a different story).

It's the easiest to learn because it's just the white keys in sequence.

It's not the most physically comfortable to play because your hand is not a rectangle.


And it would be mad if these "forests" would grow on a planet-sized spaceship with atmosphere and plenty of water, how cool and scifi would be that!

Time travelling AGI confirmed, to the moon!

I think that the crux of the problem is that populations are inherently unstable. There is only one point of equilibrium and that point is very hard to achieve, barring some kind of dystopian tyranny. There are just too many things that influence boom/bust dynamics (world wars, contraception, education, culture etc.)

There is only one point of stability and getting there is like placing a basketball atop of a flagpole.


You don't need exact stability though, having a fertility rate just above or just below replacement rate in periods wouldn't be too big of a deal.

But now we are facing a crisis. For instance the next South Korean generation is set to be half of the current one. And fertility declined strongly there over the past 10 years. Many countries are now at levels SK had ten years ago (well below the replacement rate by higher) and if the trend continue they may end up in the same situation as SK in a few years.

Halving your population over one generation is a catastrophic event.



Because how can you account for those undiscovered phenomena? You can only imagine them, but then you stop making science and start writing sci-fi


I can explain this in one sentence: major chords sound the best on distorted guitar because of the harmonic series, eot.


I suppose that you have merely seen the text ;)


Have you heard that AI music? It's absolute shite. AI is a much better boilerplate coder than a musician.


As with all things AI this is the worst it will ever be. It will be better next year and the year after and the year after...


Alternate? That's the origin.


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