[gotostatement]

- no engagement with existing literature or work on this topic

- no experimental tests of theories

- massive reductionism of the complex emotional & cognitive phenomenon of music into low-level game theoretical optimizations

sorry, I don't see a reason to take this seriously. reminds me of jurgen schmidhubers "groundbreaking" theory of science, art, music, and humor [1]

[1] https://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/creativity.html

[dang]

"Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

There's nothing wrong with someone posting their ideas on a website. This forum is an internet watercooler, not an academic journal. Someone not being a specialist is no reason to shut down conversation.

[hackcasual]

I would disagree that pointing out a paper or idea has no cites to existing work is a shallow critique. It at the very least means the commenter glanced through the content. And while it's possible for someone who's an amateur to contribute to a topic, not engaging with the existing work is a sign that you're going to get less out of the content they've put together.

[emsy]

This is hardly a shallow dismissal and the comment didn’t actually criticize the lack of credentials.