Jayson_Virissimo comments on Rationality Quotes May 2013 - Less Wrong
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The memetic evolution of baroque music in Europe is a development towards learnability? There are probably no more than 100 people alive that can make their way through Bach's 2nd Partita for violin.
Ever notice how you never hear humans playing music that humans aren't capable of learning to play? I think there may be some selection effects at play here...
Well, I never notice the satisfaction of that contradiction, quite, but I do notice that the history of baroque music includes the steady achievement of theretofore unreached technical difficulty.