The danger isn’t losing taste, it’s outsourcing it. When every book, playlist, or movie rec comes from the same feed, you stop noticing what you’re genuinely drawn to.
That’s how filter fatigue works: you confuse what the system puts in front of you with what you actually want. Over time, your “preferences” flatten into... See more
Reality Driftsubstack.comReality Drift (@therealitydrift)
In place of the human gatekeepers and curators of culture, the editors and DJs, we now have a set of algorithmic gatekeepers. While this shift has lowered many cultural barriers to entry, since anyone can make their work public online, it has also resulted in a kind of tyranny of real-time data. Attention becomes the only metric by which culture is
... See moreKyle Chayka • Filterworld
Taste is about preference. When someone has "good taste" they have well-refined preferences. Taste sounds like a snotty term that a sommelier uses, but we all have tastes, even if we're not talking about taste in full-bodied reds from Northern Italy. We have taste in music, taste in design, and taste in literature (even if your literature is banger... See more
Samantha Marin • Metalabels will be the tastemakers of the internet
