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not many brands are built wholly on irony in this way – however perhaps they should be, given how meta and self-referential popular culture has become.
alex • Taste: The secret ingredient - Basic Arts
AI image generation is essentially a truncated exercise in taste; a product of knowing which inputs and keywords to feed the image-mashup machine, and the eye to identify which outputs contain any semblance of artistry. All that is to say: AI itself can’t generate good taste for you.
Elizabeth Goodspeed on the Importance of Taste – And How to Acquire It
in the age of AI being able to select from the vast sea of possibilities becomes the most important skill.
It’s easier to recognize beauty than it is to create it. You’re good enough to know that what you’re doing isn’t good, but not good enough to produce something great. When you find yourself in this frustrating limbo, the challenge is to never forget what got you there in the first place. Remember that thing that got you into the game.
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James Clear • Ira Glass and What Every Successful Person Knows, but Never Says
from Ezra Klein, via How I Write - Ezra Klein: The Case Against Writing With AI | How I Write:
... See moreI don't think anybody can describe their own taste. I've thought about this a lot.
It is the nature of podcasting to ask people on some level who are at least by some definition of what they do, good at what they do, how they do it. And it is one of my
“Rather than understanding taste as the particular way a person does a thing, I will argue that taste is a measurement of how well a person is able to see and act within a problem space. That it is the ability to skip ahead over previously assimilated decisions to get to the heart of a matter. And that the process of doing this over and over within a domain turns the many small insights made into a muscle memory of shortcuts that are stored as aesthetic feelings, away from the cognitive expense of language and reason. Much more than just a style of doing, good taste is a measure of a person's intuitive understanding of a problem space.”