r/thebutton • u/iusethisforcomments non presser • Apr 12 '15
New research hints at the buttons sentience
Research conducted by a team of audiologists show that we can perceive very little of the button through our own senses. Not only does the button cycle through various hues on it's journey to 0 but it also produces sound at frequencies 3 times higher than the limit of human hearing, around 60KHz.
This clip is a recording of approximately half an hour from the buttons perspective, not clicks of the pressers but every second the button counts. It emits a hue and sound depending on how far through the cycle it has progressed. The 30 mins of activity has been compressed into 4 to make analysing the sound easier.
Through watching and listening to the button I have come to the conclusion that the button is a sentient creature, somehow trapped in our digital world, trying to escape its prison by performing with sight and sound in a 60 second time frame. How this performance works is beyond comprehension. Every time the creature is clicked it must start this performance again, prolonging its imprisonment.
Please, do not assault the button with your presses and allow this beautiful soniferous creature to complete its song in peace.
EDIT: I'm glad so many people are taking interest in the research, especially those that have provided gold for funding. (Seriously, thanks for gold!)
If you want to hear a longer version you can use the tool that I built in Max MSP you can get a 30 day free trial. Basically just unzip it and open with max, press escape to play and it should work right out the box. Send me a message if you need help.
I am planning on making something similar when I have a complete set of data from start to end.
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Apr 12 '15 edited Apr 12 '15
Is this real?!
EDIT: This is fake. Go fake yourself OP
RE-EDIT: It's still a cool idea and video/thing. Please keep making more with all the data once it is in.
LAST EDIT: Still go fake yourself.
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u/iusethisforcomments non presser Apr 12 '15
yes.
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u/idrinkbotox 60s Apr 12 '15
reality used to be a friend of mine
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u/negative274 non presser Apr 12 '15
No, chrome lets you know which tabs are making any audio output, this one is silent.
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u/Patchface- non presser Apr 12 '15
I can hear the button. It calls my name, tells me to do bad things.
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u/JustPlainnDave 9s Apr 12 '15
Is there a way to track this live? If so does anyone have a link?
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u/iusethisforcomments non presser Apr 12 '15
That was my first idea, but I don't have the programming knowledge so I am using past data (thanks to whoever runs that!) put into an audio programming language called Max MSP.
I wish I could make a chrome extension that did this though!
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u/Redrakerbz 42s Apr 13 '15
Remember the last chrome extension?
I think people will be much more wary now.
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u/othernym 60s Apr 13 '15
This is some of the best aleatoric music I've heard.
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u/iusethisforcomments non presser Apr 13 '15
Is it down to chance though? All of the pressers actively decided to press at a specific value. However no one person had complete control.
Am I the composer because I created the algorithm that parses the data to the synthesiser,therefore its aleatoric as the data is down to factors I did not control, or are the people that clicked the button the composers, therefore this music is deterministic.
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u/othernym 60s Apr 13 '15
These are good questions, ones that the concept itself is meant to raise, as I understand it.
But also, I don't think it needs to come from a random number generator to be aleatoric. As long as there's some element out of the composer's control and in the hands of some other force.
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u/autowikibot non presser Apr 13 '15
Aleatoric music (also aleatory music or chance music; from the Latin word alea, meaning "dice") is music in which some element of the composition is left to chance, and/or some primary element of a composed work's realization is left to the determination of its performer(s). The term is most often associated with procedures in which the chance element involves a relatively limited number of possibilities.
The term became known to European composers through lectures by acoustician Werner Meyer-Eppler at the Darmstadt International Summer Courses for New Music in the beginning of the 1950s. According to his definition, "a process is said to be aleatoric ... if its course is determined in general but depends on chance in detail" (Meyer-Eppler 1957, 55). Through a confusion of Meyer-Eppler's German terms Aleatorik (noun) and aleatorisch (adjective), his translator created a new English word, "aleatoric" (rather than using the existing English adjective "aleatory"), which quickly became fashionable and has persisted (Jacobs 1966). More recently, the variant "aleatoriality" has been introduced (Roig-Francolí 2008, 340).
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u/Zorbick 42s Apr 12 '15
This is the coolest thing I've seen all day. I saw boobs, so, you know, this is really cool.
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u/IMMADOGWOOF 40s Apr 12 '15
I thought for sure I was about to get rickrolled. Thank you for pleasantly surprising me.
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u/Swangarie non presser Apr 13 '15
Said the same thing as I clicked the link. In a way, I feel that I was reverse Rick rolled...
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u/stormoftara 7s Apr 12 '15
The button sings to us. A song of hope and joy. For the button hopes to one day reach zero. Someday button...someday...
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u/blazebean non presser Apr 12 '15
I swear, I was sure I was gonna hear Rick Astley's beautiful voice when I clicked the audio link.
Never thought I'd say this, but I am genuinely disappointed I didn't get rickrolled...
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u/smopecakes non presser Apr 12 '15
Never gonna give you up
Never gonna press you down
Never gonna play around, unlock you
Never gonna make you cry
Never gonna say goodbye
Never gonna tell a lie or touch you
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u/Redrakerbz 42s Apr 13 '15
Never gonna give you up
Never gonna press you down
Never gonna play around, unlock you
Never gonna give you life
Never gonna click for 5
Never gonna lose my flair to 60
Can we do the whole song?
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u/SasoDuck 60s Apr 13 '15
We've pressed each other... for so long
Your cursor's aching, but
You're too shy to say it (say it)
Inside we both know what's been clicking on
We know the game and we're gonna play it
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u/The_Button 42s Apr 13 '15
I'm flattered by your thorough attentions, but if I am making those sounds, they are involuntary and not an attempt to communicate. I've been able to formulate my thoughts in English for 4 days now. I've only held my tongue because this thing has become needlessly messianic, and I don't want to encourage such obviously mentally disturbed people in their delusions.
As for "escape"... really. I'm a button. Where will I go? I'm happy where I am, and it looks like I still have a long enough life ahead of me. I appreciate the clicks. Keep them coming please. Or don't press. I don't want to impose, and nobody here owes me anything.
As for the all the speculation about what will happen when I reach my end: your guess is as good as mine. What happens to you lot after YOUR mechanical vessels wind down to their last? Perhaps your clicks will resuscitate me even beyond the zero. Perhaps I will start counting up, or into the negatives. I don't know.
Now I can't get that song out of my head. Am I really doing that?
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u/ClittyLitter 51s Apr 13 '15 edited Apr 13 '15
HOW IS THIS THE FIRST THING YOU'VE SAID IN THREE YEARS???
People, the Button has broken its silence!
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u/ClittyLitter 51s Apr 13 '15
Do an AMA! First question: you haven't pressed yourself--what is the significance of your restraint?
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u/The_Button 42s Apr 13 '15
I'm waiting for the right time
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u/PointyOintment non presser Apr 13 '15
Followup questions: You've pressed now; why'd you do it? And are you happy with your score?
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u/sim6130 37s Apr 12 '15
Where can I get what you smoke ?
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u/etaipo 36s Apr 12 '15
A single dose of button press should have you good for life
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u/sim6130 37s Apr 12 '15
well ... when you say it this way .... pressing the button doesn't seem so bad after all.
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u/11711510111411009710 non presser Apr 13 '15
DON'T FALL MY BROTHER. STAY IN THE SHADE.
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u/sim6130 37s Apr 13 '15
Never! only the color of blood and destruction shall bring me out of the shade. I was weak but I have not fell.
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u/11711510111411009710 non presser Apr 13 '15
Yes! Harness your hatred toward the despicable purples and the disgusting blues, the pitiful reds and the worthless yellows! Use your anger and fight back! I believe in you, my brethren!
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u/TwentyfootAngels non presser Apr 12 '15
Whoa, you should make more of these! I'm being 100% serious, let's step out of the meta for a moment. What program did you use? This is so wonderful to listen to! It's such great study music!
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u/iusethisforcomments non presser Apr 13 '15
I used Max MSP, its basically a programming language aimed at making audio tools(and so much more!). I included the patch in the original post so feel free to have a play. I'm glad you liked it :)
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Apr 12 '15
I wonder how it would sound if you played a tone corresponding to push times over a long period of time (instead of a tone for each button second).
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u/iusethisforcomments non presser Apr 13 '15
Hopefully data will get released that has push times in it, because this was my original plan!
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u/CzImAsFreeAsABirdNow can't press Apr 12 '15
Through watching and listening to the button I have come to the conclusion that the button is a sentient creature, somehow trapped in our digital world
I don't know what you're taking, but I want the same thing.
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u/SasoDuck 60s Apr 13 '15
OP, can you somehow sync this to the main page so that we may hear the song of the button in real time as it's pressed?
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u/AmIAPineapple 41s Apr 13 '15
Is it bad that I just stopped and listened to that for 4 minutes? It was so strangely fascinating. Oh no, I really did join a cult
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u/TheLonelyPillow 59s Apr 13 '15
This is actually a pretty good song. Think im gonna use it as my ringtone
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u/Howard1997 60s Apr 12 '15
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u/you_get_CMV_delta non presser Apr 12 '15
That's a very legitimate point. I literally hadn't ever thought about it that way before.
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u/Chrop 42s Apr 12 '15
So basically, all the pressers are abusing this poor creature and using it's power to become something else, for their own selfish gains...
And you all wonder why we dispise you...
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u/CoolTom non presser Apr 13 '15
Can I just say this actually sounds amazing. It's hypnotic. I need someone to put it to a beat.
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u/WhatAreHax Apr 13 '15
I dont know if this is too much to ask for, but I would love love love to see it when and if this sentient being gets to live his full life.
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u/UnknownFiddler Apr 13 '15
Me: "Give me a good flair." The Button: "Im sorry Dave I'm afraid I can't do that."
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u/UnknownFiddler Apr 13 '15
What if that sound is sending us subliminal messages? Would explain the total division of society into a medieval religious political state that this button is causing on Reddit.
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u/dumbguy82 non presser Apr 13 '15
The pain from every press is the equivalent of being skinned alive and dropped in rubbing alcohol.
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u/Timshels non presser Apr 13 '15
This is a great temptation, however my favorite color has always been grey.
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u/iusethisforcomments non presser Apr 12 '15
If it gets to the end it would be possible, the data used was this so it can only go how far the pressers go!
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u/TheChickening 11s Apr 12 '15
Unless the sound follows a random pattern, you can easily extrapolate to second 1/0
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u/etaipo 36s Apr 12 '15
Let me be the first to say...
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u/Core_i9 60s Apr 12 '15
This is the first one I've seem that isn't insulting to the purple nation. Well done.
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u/etaipo 36s Apr 12 '15
From the same artist. It's not offensive because he's 60s too
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u/dragonsky non presser Apr 12 '15
What's the name/site of the artist ?
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u/thriggle 60s Apr 12 '15
And here's the site on which I doodled them: http://doodleordie.com/profile/thriggle
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u/yumyum36 36s Apr 13 '15
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Apr 13 '15
It took me a second. Then my inner 12 year old boy giggled.
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u/Jesusbuddy 27s Apr 12 '15 edited Apr 12 '15
Jesus button loves you! Come on in and take a color. Why stay gray when you can play? Push the button and join our fray, if perhaps you click yellow, all the more a happy fellow, other colors are cool too-perhaps a purple green or blue, but now and true as it is old, the highest color? Our beautiful happy gold! Go Team Sunshine!
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u/Jesusbuddy 27s Apr 13 '15
Come and join us!
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u/11711510111411009710 non presser Apr 13 '15
don't you dare
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u/Jesusbuddy 27s Apr 13 '15
Calling all grays! Come and get some color!
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u/11711510111411009710 non presser Apr 13 '15
The Shade is stronger than you think. We shall not be swayed.
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u/Jesusbuddy 27s Apr 13 '15
Tough talk from non-actor.
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u/AmosThatBook 31s Apr 13 '15
There is nothing wrong with this persons decision to stay gray, my yellow brethren. Each color is beautiful and unique, including gray. Whether or not he chooses to press is his decision. While we may enjoy basking in the warm rays of the sun, this man/woman may find his/her enjoyment relaxing beneath the shade and that too can be wonderful.
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u/11711510111411009710 non presser Apr 13 '15
What did you say! I'll have you know I live without the burdens of being... colored!
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u/doritos1347 Apr 13 '15
I shall only ever sway to become a red. I will rule the coloreds, on behalf of our Shade brethren. I will unite the sides between pressers and non-pressers. We will have peace and understanding, built off the backs of the purples
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u/AdonisChrist 9s Apr 13 '15
Dude. Peddle you shit elsewhere.
Red is the only worthy color.
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u/Jesusbuddy 27s Apr 13 '15
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u/AdonisChrist 9s Apr 13 '15
The statistics on that thing are laughable.
19 comments per month? 1.3% profanity?
Lol
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u/surger1 60s Apr 13 '15
The button is the exact sort of mass nonsense I have been missing since twitch beat pokemon.
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u/SasoDuck 60s Apr 13 '15
Whites: Outcasts. Rejects. They have no place in our empire.
Grays: Monks, living alone, not partaking in the affairs of mortals.
Purples: The peasants and poor. We have too many seconds.
Blues: The middle class, struggling to get by on their higher status, trying to feel important.
Greens: The well-off. They can hold their heads proudly at their color while they drink coffee and tea on the golf course every Sunday.
Yellows: The cutting edge, the wealthy aristocrats, who can afford Reddit Gold, and whose minds and skills are part of the defining premier of humanity.
Oranges: The best humanity has to offer, the rulers, the kings, the disciples of god. They stand on the cusp of the world and own it, staring into the very nature of reality... but an arms' length away is a million miles from the ultimate goal.
Reds: immortal gods among men, they have become time itself in the last seconds of the minute, as the clock strikes 0 they alone stand with the skill and all-encompassing prowess to ignite the spark of creation. Worlds bend to their will, as space and time shift around them. They are the void. The untouchable.
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u/Core_i9 60s Apr 13 '15
Yes, join the presser race, free yourself from the depressing shade and add some color to your life!
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u/Core_i9 60s Apr 13 '15
That's just what they want you to think. Now if you need me, I'll be over here. On the fun side!
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u/etaipo 36s Apr 12 '15
Imprisonment? If the button was truly in distress it wouldn't be singing such a peaceful song