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Makes sense. And to be clear it’s not necessarily about “to go bad” just a general “to be worth thinking about”. It wouldn’t be an invalid interpretation to be like “Friday is far enough to think about whether this is too little milk, or whether I will run out of milk, or other random grocery related considerations”.
I mean, the lyrics are in the post above! Just click the “Show Lyrics” button.
Oh, I actually feel good adding it to this page. I just didn’t quite feel comfortable putting it on Spotify because I didn’t want to run into copyright issues with the song it is covering. I will do that right now.
Yeah, it’s on my list to add them.
Hmm, yeah, I am not sure, I might switch them around. I keep flipping back and forth between which one I like more.
Lol, this one is great. Unfortunately I think there is a bug where it overwrites your deck when you draft your second card, and then it becomes very hard to win.
The usual bug report options should be available everywhere except on the frontpage. Also just feel free to report bugs here! I just didn’t know how to combine the usual Intercom positioning with the Customize chat.
Ah, indeed. Also fixed!
We released a bunch of these songs during last year’s April Fools, so it was probably in that context. And then it got another wave of attention around LessOnline in June.
when I first heard it two years ago
I first released the song one year ago, so it can’t have been two years!
Confirmed!
How can you know what the song is about without understanding the title?!
But to break artist convention and to just spell it out: “Friday’s Far Enough For Milk” is about living in a world where you are constantly asking yourself the question of what is still worth doing given that you think it’s quite plausible the end times are near. It becomes a habitual pattern to ask “is this thing still worth worrying about if it will only matter in a few years, or maybe even months?”.
As you stand in front of the milk for the supermarket, and you ask yourself “is it still worth worrying about whether this milk will go bad?” the answer becomes “well, I’ll probably have until Friday, and Friday is still good enough for milk to go bad” (and of course the romantic component of the song is that yes, this relationship is still worth caring about, because you definitely have until Friday, and Friday is long enough for this relationship to be worth it).
This is actually the original not the remix! :P
(Or more precisely it’s a v5.5 remaster of the v4 original which preserves many more of the details I cared about preserving. It also unfortunately failed to smooth over some rough edges, but it has gone through substantially fewer “copy this image” commands than the previous version on the Suno album :P. The harmonies on “die of grace” and “mother’s embrace” being lost is indeed pretty sad, and I was thinking about whether I can restore them somehow)
Suno is surprisingly good at that! It has only gotten good enough very recently, but I had some decent success the other day.
I Knew the Name
It’s I think my favorite song! It’s about having seen AI and the end of the world coming long before basically everyone else did (you knew the name before it had one), and having tried everything you had to stop it, but none of that being close to enough and it sure seems like it’s still going to happen anyways.
And you thought that knowing was the thing, and if you understood that it would happen and why it would happen, then you could change it, but alas, reality doesn’t grade on a curve.
But of course, you still throw yourself against the wheel and the engine of progress, and you will next year, and next year. Because what else are you supposed to do.
Suno has been steadily releasing models and they have been getting continuously better. Nobody else currently seems close.
Ah, indeed. Should be fixed in like 5 minutes!
“You Have Not Been a Good User” (LessWrong’s second album)
The theme of the LessWrong Revolution newspaper. Viva La LessWrong Frontpage!
Yeah, I am also sad about this. I tried pretty hard to keep the models on track, but at least with Suno v4 this was the best you could do (and most of these remasters are the result of sampling from 50-100 remasters and finding the ones that capture the original best).
I might try again with v5.5 being released, where one of the central selling points of Suno v5.5 is that it maintains the original voice and character of covers and provided audio snippets much more. I’ve had pretty good experiences with the 2 tracks I remastered using that model so far, though still not perfect.