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Alright, here's what's probably my most diverse and "fun" playlist: Funny How Science Works. It's a collection of songs about science and technology. Each song often starts out technical and educational and then veers off into insanity. For example Tectonic Truth, which is about plate tectonics, and Along the Lines of Blaschko, which is about Blaschko lines, a pattern of cell differentiation found in females but not in males as a result of X-chromosome inactivation (I think this is probably the only song in existence about Blaschko's lines). Others are a bit less deranged, for example Million Player Co-Op is just about how awesome ants are. And speaking of ants, Little Pilot is about Dicrocoelium dendriticum, the liver lancet fluke, a parasitic flatworm that uses ants as an intermediate host.

Criterion Three is about how the IAU reclassified Pluto as a dwarf planet in 2006 and in particular it's about how much of a hypocrite S. Alan Stern was about it. This is perhaps one of the pettiest and most specific diss tracks I'm aware of. Speaking of diss tracks, The Pro-K is sung by a prokaryotic bacterium dissing eukaryotes for how unreasonably complicated our cellular structure is.

If you're leaning anti-AI then you might enjoy my AI Apocalypse playlist, which is a bunch of songs along the general theme of AIs taking over the world. I'm not personally concerned about the stereotypical Skynet bombs-and-Terminators scenario, that's Hollywood, but I do have some concern about the emergence of a Super-Persuader AI that's better at convincing people to do stuff than humans are. So a number of the songs are along those lines.

Many of the songs in these playlists are ones where I wrote pages of detailed prompts and tinkered with the results, since they involve personal philosophies and technical scientific subjects that I wanted to make sure were right. Here's an example of a song that was generated with just a simple prompt to see what would come out; Insert Romance Here, which I generated by simply telling the AI "generate the most absolutely generic possible romantic song."

Here's a playlist of songs that's entirely about the RS-232 standard, a standard introduced in 1960 for serial transmission of data.

A lot of the songs in these lists have probably only been listened to by me, nobody else has ever heard them. It's a little annoying that Producer.ai, the service I used to generate all of these, doesn't support attaching an "author's note" to each song; many of these only really make any sense with a little bit of context about what was in my head when I generated them. But hopefully most of the ones I've made public are self-explanatory to some degree.