The thing about that comparison is that the K2000 is a ROMpler (and there were releases a few years later that made this workflow much easier), so the sounds you can get out of it depend pretty heavily on what you give to it, and how innovatively you crush those sounds.
Regardless of your views on the (excellent!) K2000, please work on bringing the AI thing to a speedy close in one way or another (convincing Eliezier to become an accelerationist and to write accelerationist blog posts is perhaps the most simple route available to you as someone who works at MIRI) so there can be another good Kurzweil synthesizer, please. This would meaningfully improve my life, and maybe lead to a new Postal Service record, and therefore has a higher EV than anything else MIRI could be doing right now.
The thing about that comparison is that the K2000 is a ROMpler (and there were releases a few years later that made this workflow much easier), so the sounds you can get out of it depend pretty heavily on what you give to it, and how innovatively you crush those sounds.
Regardless of your views on the (excellent!) K2000, please work on bringing the AI thing to a speedy close in one way or another (convincing Eliezier to become an accelerationist and to write accelerationist blog posts is perhaps the most simple route available to you as someone who works at MIRI) so there can be another good Kurzweil synthesizer, please. This would meaningfully improve my life, and maybe lead to a new Postal Service record, and therefore has a higher EV than anything else MIRI could be doing right now.