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If a recording of someones very rare voice is representable by mp4 or whatever, could monkeys typing out code randomly exactly reproduce their exact timbre+tone+overall sound?

I don't get how we can get rocks to think + exactly transcribe reality in the ways they do!

Edit: I don't get how audio can be fossilized/reified into plaintext

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

It's kind of apples to oranges. Smoothness or variance is noticeable above discrete human 'limits'. For a variety of reasons.

With music you have multiple types of feedback.