Graham Percival <gra...@percival-music.ca> writes: > On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 11:08:53AM -0400, Kieren MacMillan wrote: >> Hi David, >> >> > The whole point is that a computer, left to its own devices, would never >> > think of playing the violin or chess. It would sit in a corner and rust. >> >> With all due respect, I don't even think that's the point -- for >> at some future date, there will undoubtedly be a computer which, >> left to its own devices, *would* think of playing the violin or >> chess rather than sitting in a corner and rusting. > > Actually, I doubt that. What I expect is that at some future date > (say, 100 years), if you have told your computer to entertain you, > it will decide to create a virtual string quartet, performing new > music composed in the style of Dvorak. Whereas for me, it might > create a virtual jpop singer with invisible backup band (a la Miku > videos), and for my best friend in high school, it might create a > virtual quake CXI game where he plays against other people over > the 'net.
For me it will shut itself off. It is pretty good at that already. -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
