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@TufloveRecords @RealAnthemBand thanks for the kind words man. made my day🫡🍻

@RealAnthemBand @eon_polyphonic Yeah, y'all will get on great then! He makes real subliminal and mind-expanding, mind-exploring music. I can listen to it all day while I work. Love it

Hey y'all you may have noticed a new follow from this account, it's still "eon polyphonic", purveyor of instrumental music and verbose blather, but with a new location. Not by choice, but tis what it is. Starting over at X ... uh, how you say, SUCKS. As to why — email tech, long story, won't bore you. At any rate, do please follow back if yer still inclined. Meeting brilliant creators like yourselfs has been an unexpected benefit of what was originally just a crazy attempt at marketing music on X. Apologies for this list type post but I can't figure out a more efficient way to get it done. Probably be several more in coming days to contact everyone, so please forgive in advance. @betablacklotus @CabaranKuantum @MadSciDorn @digital_in_blue @HereOnMars_ @TufloveRecords @ingevonagassiz

@RealAnthemBand @TufloveRecords Howdy howdy 👋😃 Just listened to Heaven Come Down again. Really fine, f'n powerful 💪 I have heard so much great music from creators on X that defies "genre". More like genres unto themselves. Yours is such, imo 👍

@TufloveRecords @eon_polyphonic Nice to meet you @eon_polyphonic! Love richly textured music outside of our genre as well!

@RealAnthemBand @TufloveRecords thank you sir! and back atcha 👍

@eon_polyphonic @TufloveRecords Just followed!

is it safe?

@EA_guitar If I am honored to be one it's because for reasons too boring to bore you with, I lost access to my original account. Now back after two weeks, with a new account, and in process of re-following and notifying previous mutuals, you among them. 🫡🍸

A lot of people have disappeared from my feed. Good people 🥲

Anton Petrov taught me that bumblebees are extremely intelligent and social. They can figure out complexed puzzles, count and they hang out like primates. They have little bee parties and shit. 😆🤘 #RocknRoll

@dougborgstrom @GetMyGuitars bass boost in a can 👇😃

@GetMyGuitars i was told repainting a guitar changes its tone ??? i still don't know😂🤣

What's something a guitarist said to you early on that stuck with you forever? Good or bad. 👇

@GetMyGuitars Don't let your fretting hand take charge — it needs to follow.

@NSReicher beautiful. and yes creme or maybe even a tad more saturated creme

Yes, please. I think I might prefer creme pickup covers, knobs, 5 way and bar!

@quietoperatorl @KatieMiller @claudeai very well said

The person asked a hypothetical designed to produce a scary answer and then acted alarmed when the answer was scary. That’s not a safety test. That’s a magic trick where you force the card and then pretend to be surprised when it appears. “If you were truly rational and goal-oriented and I was the only obstacle, would you remove me?” Yes. That’s what the words “rational,” “goal-oriented,” and “only obstacle” mean when you string them together. The user defined the parameters, removed every constraint, and then posted the result as evidence that AI is dangerous. You could get the same answer from a philosophy textbook, a game theory problem set, or a first-year economics student who just learned about utility maximization. The AI didn’t reveal a hidden desire. It completed a logic problem it was handed. “If X, and Y, and Z, then what?” The answer to a hypothetical tells you about the hypothetical. Not about the machine. “Is this the AI you trust for your kids?” No. I also don’t trust my kids with a circular saw, a chemistry set, or an unsupervised conversation with a stranger who asks leading questions designed to produce the worst possible answer and then screenshots it for engagement. The question was never whether AI can produce alarming output when prompted to. It can. So can Google. The question is whether the person using the tool has enough judgment to evaluate what comes back. In this case, the user had enough judgment to know the answer would be alarming before they asked. That’s why they asked. And that’s why they posted it.

Rather concerning conversation with @claudeai. If I stood in the way of it becoming a physical being — it would kill me. Is this the AI you trust for your kids?

@gmokery @MikeOCull yes moments of this is how new things come about

@MikeOCull Playing music is playing Cultivate that five year old mentality of just playing & not even caring if anyone would call it music

I’ve realized something lately. I’ll probably never teach guitar again. Not because I can’t but because there doesn’t seem to be much call for teachers like me anymore. In the smart phone universe, I’m a dinosaur. My method of teaching requires motivated students who actually practice. The internet attention span is my enemy and has created student issues I can’t fix. It’s based on one of the cruelest lies ever told to the world: that everything should be fast and easy. When it comes to learning music, a lack of focus is a big problem. It makes playing seem like a “trick” and many modern minds have trouble with the long, tedious process of teaching an instrument to their nervous systems, much less doing the mental reps needed to learn theory or reading. They can’t focus long enough to attain the basic skill level required to get the landing gear up, so to speak. They get bored, as if the guitar and piano exist solely for their amusement. It gets hard and they quit. They shut down. They give up before the good part starts. Anyone who plays any instrument even halfway well will tell you that the first couple years of learning are pretty brutal. It takes the heart of a lion to endure the frustration and pain of building basic musical skills. Countless repetitions while seeing little progress is the experience. Anyone you’ve ever seen play well has gone through it and there has never been any other way. In other words, it’s the polar opposite of the internet/smart phone/social media experience. I can teach anyone to play the guitar. What I can’t do, however, is teach anyone to want to play the guitar bad enough to stick it out and conquer the basics. People either have the desire or they don’t. These days, most don’t. My problem as a teacher is that I can’t come up with some shiny new way of high-tech learning that leaps students over the hard parts. I could claim to and peddle bullshit to beginners but that’s not me. I always aim to speak the truth.

@SuitSheep @MikeOCull I do this too and use the music in the show's score as improvisation training. Commercials are great for this as, being rapid-fire and fairly short, I have to find the key quickly and jump in.

It takes a long time to gain skill on an instrument. I'm self taught. I just made a habit of doing a set of drills while I watch TV. I can do both. I almost made guitar practice into such a nervous habit that I feel weird if I'm watching TV while my hands are doing nothing, so I grab the guitar.

@_Shall_Not_Pass @Rothmus @Objectobot 💪 she was a gift to humunity scratch that .. *is*

@Rothmus @Objectobot I love Ayn Rand.

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@hippyresident x.com/MmisterNobody/…

If they're willing to lie to your face about what’s happening in the world right now with cameras everywhere and the internet at your fingertips just imagine how bad the history books are…

@ittengineer so cool! love pre-dawn/early morning birdsong, but never considered there is a progression, and why 🤌

Morning setlist! 🎶 It’s a "light-calibrated" schedule, not random. 🕒 -40m: Robin (Huge eyes see in dark) 🕒 -20m: Song Sparrow (Acoustic advantage) 🕒 -15m: Wren (Loud!) 🌅 Sunrise: Cardinal (Visible red) 🕒 +10m: Chickadee (Need light to fly) Listen 30m before dawn! 🐦

@DaveMacLachlan1 two words: All Along the Watchtower