taste
Pulling from a curated set of my own and others’ ideas has so much more aliveness to it than the default LLM experience where you often drag your eyes across the words and feel...nothing.
Here, there’s a feeling that these words matter, the jolt from reading a very good sentence, a just-in-time encounter with something true and weird and original... See more
Here, there’s a feeling that these words matter, the jolt from reading a very good sentence, a just-in-time encounter with something true and weird and original... See more
Sari Azout • Umm, I Guess We’re Talking About Taste Again
the default LLM experience and the best one you could possibly have
Voltaire once wrote that, “in order to have taste, it is not enough to see and to know what is beautiful in a given work. One must feel beauty and be moved by it.” No large language model has yet been programmed to feel anything, and no number of branded baseball caps is going to change that.
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“The recipe for great work is: very exacting taste, plus the ability to gratify it,”
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We might call what’s going on now “taste-washing,” an attempt to give anti-humanist technologies a veneer of liberal humanism. The Times perpetuated this mythmaking when it launched a poll last week asking users to read passages drawn from well-known works of literature, and passages generated by A.I. , and choose which they preferred... See more
Kyle Chayka • Why tech bros are obsessed with "taste"
the overstimulation of the internet has warped our ability to exercise taste
Anderson Cooper asks the most prolific music producer alive what, exactly, he does in the studio. Rubin can’t play an instrument. He has no formal training, doesn’t read music, and never touches the boards.
His answer: I know what I like and what I don’t like, and I’m decisive about what I like and what I don’t like.
That’s it. That’s the whole job... See more
His answer: I know what I like and what I don’t like, and I’m decisive about what I like and what I don’t like.
That’s it. That’s the whole job... See more
Tom White • Rick Rubin Is the Future of Work
Loving sharpens the self and taste
People often talk about crushes as aspirational mirrors. Often, they reflect the qualities we long to cultivate in ourselves - confidence, charisma, creativity, spiritual clarity. When we fall for someone, we’re drawn to the version of ourselves that wakes up in their light as much as we are drawn to them as... See more
People often talk about crushes as aspirational mirrors. Often, they reflect the qualities we long to cultivate in ourselves - confidence, charisma, creativity, spiritual clarity. When we fall for someone, we’re drawn to the version of ourselves that wakes up in their light as much as we are drawn to them as... See more
the intelligence of desire
In this environment, social and economic signaling converge: individuals and organizations who are recognized for reliable curiosity, trusted curation, and sound judgment accrue disproportionate attention, trust, and capital, further amplifying their economic position.