Should have known better than to expect HN to have any respect for humanity, art, or subjective experience.
Bigger point, the human ear is one of the most varied and wildly inconsistent of our senses, while at the same time being highly accurate and able to discern tiny details fairly well. It tricks us, and as such it's difficult to stick to science alone to describe what we "hear" because "hearing" is a whole lot more complex than simply "accurately reproducing." And that should be celebrated.
In other words, I feel sorry for all you heartless computer minds, even as a computer scientist myself; you have no humanity in your unabashed technocracy, and you are the worse for it.
Bigger point, the human ear is one of the most varied and wildly inconsistent of our senses, while at the same time being highly accurate and able to discern tiny details fairly well. It tricks us, and as such it's difficult to stick to science alone to describe what we "hear" because "hearing" is a whole lot more complex than simply "accurately reproducing." And that should be celebrated.
In other words, I feel sorry for all you heartless computer minds, even as a computer scientist myself; you have no humanity in your unabashed technocracy, and you are the worse for it.