Art is about exploration, not progress: a response to SBF

This article reminds me of a quote by Jeff Bezos where he says "I would love to see, you know, a trillion humans living in the solar system. If we had a trillion humans, we would have at any given time a thousand Mozarts and a thousand Einsteins… Our solar system would be full of life and intelligence and energy."

And I find it interesting he says a thousand Mozarts, because it seems to fall in the same fallacy the Dan Frank is talking about in this article.. Many people seem convinced that there's something about our society that is forstalling the creation of Mozart's and Einstein's not that the history of music and technology means that modern genius' are necessarily more niche than historical genius.

For instance, in Music, I think there's probably quite a few modern Mozart's -- Aphex Twin/Squarepusher, maybe someone like a Steve Reich or a John Luther Adams, there's probably a few in metal and hip hop and a variety of other Genre's. I like to joke that maybe Taylor Swift is a modern Mozart.

I think it's sad in a lot of ways how little recognition there is in experimentation and modernism. What would Jeff Bezos say about this? "Steve Reich is great, but he's no Mozart". Which I think leaves us in sort of a "No True Mozart" fallacy.