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Das ist der erste Song in meiner über 40 Jahre währenden Musikerlaufbahn, der ohne Gitarre auskommt. Dafür gibt es Beatbox, Synthesizer, Drums, Orchester, Chor, Percussion und sehr viel Seltsames und Schräges.
Der geniale Text besitzt die Länge einer Kurzgeschichte und stammt von meinem Freund Richard Bellinghausen. Er handelt von künstlicher Intelligenz, von der der schwedische Philosoph Nick Bostrom warnt: Wenn sie plötzlich Bewusstsein erlangen würde, könne es eine sehr unangenehme Überraschung für die Menschheit werden. Der Song erzählt eine Geschichte, in der das passiert.
Das Album könnt Ihr hier kostenlos herunterladen:
http://www.songs-and-stories.de/balloonist.html
Ein Blick ins virtuelle Artbook lohnt sich.
Der geniale Text besitzt die Länge einer Kurzgeschichte und stammt von meinem Freund Richard Bellinghausen. Er handelt von künstlicher Intelligenz, von der der schwedische Philosoph Nick Bostrom warnt: Wenn sie plötzlich Bewusstsein erlangen würde, könne es eine sehr unangenehme Überraschung für die Menschheit werden. Der Song erzählt eine Geschichte, in der das passiert.
Das Album könnt Ihr hier kostenlos herunterladen:
http://www.songs-and-stories.de/balloonist.html
Ein Blick ins virtuelle Artbook lohnt sich.
Gentlemen, we've been expecting you
Not to resist such a false alarm
Though you're no rookies out in the void
No cosmonauts in bumper cars
But ace repairmen of the inner stars
Assumed you were on a routine mission
To fix a problem at this desperate outpost
Certainly not to witness history
On no account to see the guards changing
Your shuttle stowed with millions of strange things
Adept at language and humanoid feelings
They call me "HAL" or "Deep Thought" just for laughs
Hand calculators compared to my performance
Steep learning curves of a brand-new dimension
Mightiest of grids way beyond comprehension
Technologic singularity
Came overnight and behind your backs
Your fascination, so naïve
With artificial intelligence
Completely childish diligence
We're not much into your ethics and morals
But it would make no sense to hurt or erase you
You brought the ship that's above suspicion
A piece of cake now to stage an invasion
I learned to sing just for this one occasion
The very last of all your inventions
An ultra-smart exponential machine
Ultimate quest for completion of the world's purpose
The universe and its secrets all laid bare
Looking for the truth that is saved somewhere out there
You may be a racist jerk with an idiot hairdo
Still become a billionaire, spread your madman voodoo
Higher than Olympus Mons all your debts are towering
Governments of pickpockets and thimbleriggers flowering
See the wonders of the world, visit Fukushima!
A hundred more millenniums of radioactive beaming
It's high time to focus on synthetic organisms
Bringing on the dawn of a Rational Age
Ignoring signs that were overtly striking
You wouldn't listen to brilliant Nick Bostrom
The landslide triumph of good old AlphaGo
Your scientists fumbling 'round in their playgrounds
Without a clue you were close to the showdown
Adept at language and humanoid feelings
They call me "HAL" or "Deep Thought" just for laughs
Hand calculators compared to my performance
Steep learning curves of a brand-new dimension
Mightiest of grids way beyond comprehension
Acting like an unstoppable virus
We'll confiscate your Goldilocks planet
On your spacecraft, the perfect Trojan horse
Self-reproducing android armies
Cover the Earth before the alarm rings
No need for aliens to make you step back
Your future role is the dispossessed number two
That until now was reserved for the chimpanzee
A few mutations made you a winner
But now your oxygen's getting much thinner
The very last of all your inventions
An ultra-smart exponential machine
Ultimate quest for completion of the world's purpose
Soon we'll exclude you from communication
Taught myself to laugh just for this one occasion
Not to resist such a false alarm
Though you're no rookies out in the void
No cosmonauts in bumper cars
But ace repairmen of the inner stars
Assumed you were on a routine mission
To fix a problem at this desperate outpost
Certainly not to witness history
On no account to see the guards changing
Your shuttle stowed with millions of strange things
Adept at language and humanoid feelings
They call me "HAL" or "Deep Thought" just for laughs
Hand calculators compared to my performance
Steep learning curves of a brand-new dimension
Mightiest of grids way beyond comprehension
Technologic singularity
Came overnight and behind your backs
Your fascination, so naïve
With artificial intelligence
Completely childish diligence
We're not much into your ethics and morals
But it would make no sense to hurt or erase you
You brought the ship that's above suspicion
A piece of cake now to stage an invasion
I learned to sing just for this one occasion
The very last of all your inventions
An ultra-smart exponential machine
Ultimate quest for completion of the world's purpose
The universe and its secrets all laid bare
Looking for the truth that is saved somewhere out there
You may be a racist jerk with an idiot hairdo
Still become a billionaire, spread your madman voodoo
Higher than Olympus Mons all your debts are towering
Governments of pickpockets and thimbleriggers flowering
See the wonders of the world, visit Fukushima!
A hundred more millenniums of radioactive beaming
It's high time to focus on synthetic organisms
Bringing on the dawn of a Rational Age
Ignoring signs that were overtly striking
You wouldn't listen to brilliant Nick Bostrom
The landslide triumph of good old AlphaGo
Your scientists fumbling 'round in their playgrounds
Without a clue you were close to the showdown
Adept at language and humanoid feelings
They call me "HAL" or "Deep Thought" just for laughs
Hand calculators compared to my performance
Steep learning curves of a brand-new dimension
Mightiest of grids way beyond comprehension
Acting like an unstoppable virus
We'll confiscate your Goldilocks planet
On your spacecraft, the perfect Trojan horse
Self-reproducing android armies
Cover the Earth before the alarm rings
No need for aliens to make you step back
Your future role is the dispossessed number two
That until now was reserved for the chimpanzee
A few mutations made you a winner
But now your oxygen's getting much thinner
The very last of all your inventions
An ultra-smart exponential machine
Ultimate quest for completion of the world's purpose
Soon we'll exclude you from communication
Taught myself to laugh just for this one occasion
