Andy Masley

YouTube video by Andy's AI Songs Shoegaze 1

Been trying to make AI music like the bands I was really into growing up and this is the first time I’ve thought my teenage self would’ve really liked it www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewEL...

Well you got me beat on qualifications then!

Will read later this week and will update the post accordingly, thank you!

Good point! My digging suggested that brick and mortar stores actually just use a ton of energy to run normally that seems to cancel out the air freight cost. I'll circle back on this.

My can of soup example of bad climate communication Would you condemn my vegan chili?

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YouTube video by Andy's AI Songs Uther

Been trying to make weird drone metal with AI. This one kind of sounds like the guitar is screaming starting at 1:20 www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVvW...

Great day for AI water use info

Autocorrect, should be “prompting” not promoting

No one who says this ever actually includes the results of dividing the training cost by the number of users the model gets. When you do that, the water cost of training shrinks to around 10-30% of the water cost of promoting. It only looks big because it’s concentrated at the beginning

He just tweeted it out

*SPOILER* There are some ridiculous wild moments in the books. The third book starts assuming you know all this and runs with it to some very fun goofy places.

Ended up writing this anyway because this data's outdated andymasley.substack.com/p/ordering-a...

Ordering Amazon deliveries is often better for the environment than driving to buy the stuff in a store Driving is so bad for the climate that anything you can do to drive less is usually pretty good

Yup, I did end up writing this anyway and made it clear that walking and biking is preferable to getting deliveries andymasley.substack.com/p/ordering-a...

This is actually pretty outdated so it still seems worth writing

I was gonna write a post about how it seems likely that the average Amazon order is better for the environment than driving to pick up the thing yourself, but people already went and did a great deep dive on that. Seems to be the case, but only slightly generationim.com/our-thinking...

Yeah!

YouTube video by Andy's AI Songs Braxton

Okay this is my favorite (very abrasive) AI music I've made. Anthony Braxton + noise/math rock. www.youtube.com/watch?v=AieM...

Yup agree

YouTube video by Andy's AI Songs Bermuda

AI music peaks for me at really abrasive noise/math rock. Can get to strange sounds fast www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDR2...

I love a lot of EA practical ethics but the meta ethics get so goofy so fast

Yeah you could say I'm an alignment researcher

I can’t win

And… man. "what happens if we build something that is capable of doing vast swathes of knowledge work roughly as well as the median human" does feel like a conversation people who care deeply about equality, fairness and human flourishing ought to be having

I think this is more than just trusting people’s judgment though, we need to allow them to pursue and spend some small amounts of resources on stuff we think is silly. I don’t go around condemning Funko Pops as bad for the climate even though I think they’re silly and they use energy to produce

Blessings 😇

Seems like we're going in circles here so might be time to stop.

My claim isn't that there aren't other facts, just that those facts ultimately reduce to describing physical processes.

I expect to be underwhelmed by GPT-5. We will see.

I think it's much more arrogant to assume that our human myths and mental structures we use to guide our thinking are somehow tapping into a higher reality of complex objects.

You're very strongly implying that this is the one correct view of art and if I say that it's fine if art is ugly and that's a separate question from how it was produced, I've misunderstood something fundamental about art.