Music Music I most enjoyed discovering this quarter:1 DJ Koze: Music Can Hear Us (2025) Wayne Horvitz: Those Who Remain mvt 1 (2018), “A Walk in the Rain” & “Barber Shop” (2014) George Russell: “Time Spiral” and “Ezz-thetic” (1983) Aaron Parks: Invisible Cinema (2008) Spiro Dussias: “Negative” (2024) Vijay Iyer: Far from Over (2017) Christian […]| Luke Muehlhauser
I recently made Spotify playlists for all the music I “strongly like” (or better) by each of my favorite musical artists. That makes it easy to tell how many minutes of music I strongly like by each of them, so now I can rank them by that metric. This metric’s biggest downside is that it […]| Luke Muehlhauser
Today’s best AI “large language models” are especially good at tasks where hallucinations and other failures are low-stakes, such as making music recommendations.| Luke Muehlhauser
Spotify is very bad at searching for classical music recordings.| Luke Muehlhauser
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Since I began reading fiction again in late 2023 (in my late 30s, after a >15yr hiatus from fiction), I’ve been tracking my reading on Goodreads, and rating works I finish 1-5 stars based on pure enjoyment rather than e.g. artistic merit. I’ve now finished reading 151 “books” (including e.g. short stories), all but 8 […]| Luke Muehlhauser
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Music Music I most enjoyed discovering this quarter: Gregorio Allegri: “Miserere” (c. 1635) Dimash & Chanté Moore: “Lose Control” (2024) Clark: Playground in a Lake (2021) The Last Dinner Party: “Call Me” (2024), Prelude to Ecstasy (2024) Varijashree Venugopal: Vari (2024) Ske: Insolubilia (2021) Ni: Fol Naïs (2023) The Octopus Porject: Headecagon (2010) Foals: Total Life Forever […]| Luke Muehlhauser
Since I started reading fiction as an adult in late 2023, the works of “classic literature” I’ve read (or DNF’d) so far include The Stranger, The Sound and the Fury, The Metamorphosis, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, The Death of Ivan Ilych, The Great Gatsby, The Catcher in the Rye, Of Mice and Men, Lord of the Flies, The Little Prince, 1984, The Old Man and the Sea, Their Eyes Were Watching God, and Candide. I found them to be a mixed bag. Of Mice and Men and Lord of the Flies ...| Luke Muehlhauser
On May 28th, I resigned from the Anthropic Board of Directors (announced here).| Luke Muehlhauser
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Bostrom (2014) worries about an AI “treacherous turn”:| Luke Muehlhauser