| looking for salient features and not necessary and sufficient conditions for something to count as music | REGRET INDEX: 0a regret index of 1 is ultimate regret this result collects the hard-earned experience of 1 lifetimes of regret permalink to this result commentsmatt: what's the difference? matt: if the hypothetical "necessary and sufficient conditions" were something outside of the music itself, then i would see a distinction, but i can't tell exactly what it's referring to. The topic of the sentence: was muzak. matt: muzak kind of pisses me off. i try to avoid hearing pop music, because i have millions of inane tunes stuck in my head that i'm never going to forget, and i want to avoid hearing any more. but whenever i go to the gas station there's music coming out of matt: speakers, and it's totally unnecessary and annoying! it's noise pollution! matt: but you didn't really clarify the meaning of the regret? Hah!: You, complaining about noise pollution? matt: i don't force my sounds onto unwilling listeners.
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