I just listen to "Shuffle" which suits my purposes but it may be the least satisfactory for you.
--- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Tue, Oct 12, 2021, 10:58 AM uǝlƃ ☤>$ <geprope...@gmail.com> wrote: > Well, to be a little clearer, the Dwarves qualify as Swill. Danzig and > Tool do not. Rage Against the Machine comes close enough. It's obvious > their technical skill prevents them from being Swill. But their target > emotional response is the same. So I gave Pandora some slack there. > > What I find irritating is the conflict between Pandora's musical > similarity versus its aesthetic similarity algorithms. It's like the > popularity algorithm (or perhaps cf Facebook "engagement algorithm") > overshadows the musical similarity algorithm. It consistently tries to play > music it knows I've liked (explicit thumbs up or failed to skip) regardless > of what "station" is playing. That irritates me to no end. Yes, I like > Black Sabbath. But for Yog's sake do NOT play Black Sabbath on the Tijuana > Cartel station ... you stupid, stupid machine. > > It, yet again, raises the basic semantic foundation highlighted by Luc > Steels: pointing. Teaching Pandora is like trying to teach my cat to look > at the referent, not the sign. Some cats get it. Most don't. > > -- > "Better to be slapped with the truth than kissed with a lie." > ☤>$ uǝlƃ > > > .-- .- -. - / .- -.-. - .. --- -. ..--.. / -.-. --- -. .--- ..- --. .- - . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn UTC-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam > un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > archives: > 5/2017 thru present https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ > 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/ >
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