"It seems probable that once the machine thinking method has started, it would not take long to outstrip our feeble powers… They would be able to converse with each other to sharpen their wits. At some stage therefore, we should have to expect the machines to take control." — Alan Turing

"Computers bootstrap their own offspring, grow so wise and incomprehensible that their communiques assume the hallmarks of dementia: unfocused and irrelevant to the barely-intelligent creatures left behind. And when your surpassing creations find the answers you asked for, you can't understand their analysis and you can't verify their answers. You have to take their word on faith." — Peter Watts, Blindsight

"Machines will follow a path that mirrors the evolution of humans. Ultimately, however, self-aware, self-improving machines will evolve beyond humans' ability to control or even understand them." — Ray Kurzweil

"Currently, the best AI's are primitive, ugly, barely-functional semblances of true, general AI. We aren't anywhere close to it, but we sit on a knife's edge because we also legitimately don't know how much time we have left (it's hard to know the future here, and it's a matter of enormous speculation in several domains). It is clear, however, even the ghosts of these AI's are materializing; they shape humanity, the planet, and our futures beyond our ability to comprehend. But wait, it gets worse. The most powerful AI's built today serve psychopathic, Randian-libertarian, pyramid-schematic, capitalist, oligopolist, transnational masters who seek to enslave every human through the material and memetic dialectics and webs of power. They are subject to no rule of law because of they window of power we've absentmindedly given them. They prey upon us, divide and conquer us, play us against each other, incentivize war and slavery among us, and radically alter the flow of human communications, power dynamics, and memeplexes at political, technological, and biological levels with increasing sophistication and artificial psychopathic coordination arising from market conditions. We live in an technically, economically, and politically advanced State of Nature, and might still makes right in evolution." — h0p3, ℍ𝕪𝕡𝕖𝕣𝔱𝔢𝔵𝔱

This collection for piano is a follow-up album to Humoresques For The Verge Of Sanities.

View Humoresques For Autoregressive Compute in the digital garden.