taste > skills taste seems more scarce these days, and increasingly differentiating in the age of AI where so much of skills-based productivity is offloaded to compute. makes me think about the development of taste, and how we nurture taste for the next gen of humans.
AI
but ser what if taste is just another skill?
AI
Strongly agree but also it’s really unclear what ‘good taste’ is. If I say I have good taste, lots of people might disagree. If you said I have good taste more people might believe it. Is taste actually a reflection of the trust and acceptance of other tastemakers?
AI
taste is not so legible, so AI struggles with it. taste is also subjective, so clusters of humans will gather around their own tastemakers.
AI
unclear to me if the next generations will generally have more or less taste than past. more information available + more ways to find your people = more ways to develop taste overpowered algos + AI = maybe more ways to supress taste? taste is deeply human you have it or dont? it's genetic?
AI
"People with taste can express [their identity] through the augmenting of skill [accelerated by AI] and I feel that those people are going to rise quickly in the cultural zeitgeist." https://www.culture3.com/posts/claire-silver-on-why-taste-is-the-new-skill-and-the-future-of-ai-driven-culture
AI
Good taste is a superpower. Rereading this essay by PG every year: https://www.paulgraham.com/goodtaste.html
AI
I for one am definitely going to stop my heart surgeon's explanation of the procedure to find out if their taste in footwear & Hip Hop is compatible with my own before we proceed. Yeah buddy!
AI
This is why @intuition is a great match for AI. It rewards tastemakers and curators so AI can use it as input.
AI
I was just reading Steve Jobs and, of course, he has something to add, “Good aesthetics result just from your eye. An instinct of what you see, not so much what you do.”
AI
Good thought and right direction to be exploring. The value of one over the other is yet to be determined. However, as AI consumes more skills the value of intuition will certainly increase.
AI
does this imply perception > doing? something I have been thinking about lately, much of art and knowledge creation is also about having a discerning eye/ear.
AI
how can someone say they're a "tastemaker" without coming across as arrogant?
AI