Brian Eno
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1,303 appearances
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first heard Oct 2025
last heard 21 Jul
Brian Eno’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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You start the piece, but it finishes itself.
It carries on finishing itself for the rest of time.
I think they mean the same thing.
Now, of course, as a set of techniques, mine is much, much, much cruder and simpler and much more analogue than the techniques that are generally being used in LLMs.
And of course, the other big difference is that mine are not owned by mad billionaires.
And I I think that's an important difference.
In fact, with all the discussion about AI, to me
The single most important question is who should be in control of it?
And we've seen in this century what happens when billionaires control new technologies, social media, I'm talking about, and we've seen that they
you get completely unpredicted and quite disastrous results sometimes.
You know, the the collapse of democracy in most of our countries, I think, is very traceable to social media and to the
kind of misunderstanding that
underwrote it that um, oh, let's make this amazing new medium where everyone can communicate with each other.
Oh, but we've got to make a lot of money from doing it.
You know, in a way the m big mistake was when the the algorithm became maximize engagement, which means maximize profits, of course.
If maximize engagement is what you're going for, then you end up with what we have now, an internet that flourishes on anger and
Nastiness in some ways.
I'm not saying, of course, that everything like that is like that on the internet.
But what seems to have happened in the race for profits, we've managed to sidestep the friction that normally comes with things being born into the world.
Friction is very important.
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