Episode Description

===NOTICE===: We’re doing something a bit different this episode and will require your eyes. We decided to experiment with automatically producing visuals for the things we’re talking about. The results are… interesting. Head over to here (or download from here) to watch the accompanying video.

A sampling of topics discussed this time include:

• Isaac Asimov writing stories posthumously.
• Infinite music generation.
• Lettuce production.
• Moral good.

Some highlights and references:

• 04:20 – One example of automation of game design is ANGELINA by Mike Cook: http://www.gamesbyangelina.org/
• 05:30 – The Dream Renderer takes affect (cue a minute of incoherance).
• 13:40 – Any early example of music content generation was released by OpenAI, with sometimes surprisingly reasonable results: https://openai.com/blog/jukebox/ i
• 13:50 – Royal Philharmonic Orchestra albums can be found here: https://www.rpo.co.uk/
• 16:20 – An example of style transfer for Harry Potter snippets: https://twitter.com/gwern/status/1273783738493808642. The author of these transfers has more content on their website: https://www.gwern.net/GPT-3.
• 17:32 – https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/pronunciation/english/melancholy
• 21:15 – Dream Renderer strikes again.
• 35:15 – Dream Renderer strikes again.
• 44:30 – Citation: one of us was a little boy growing up in Bulgaria.
• 63:00 – Some companies include Giving What We Can (https://www.givingwhatwecan.org/) and GiveWell (https://www.givewell.org/)