Robin Good

The gap between taste and ability is not a problem to solve. It is the engine of all creative development. You make bad work because your taste is already good enough to recognize it as bad. That recognition is not a sign you should stop. It is the only sign that matters that you should continue.

LLM Knowledge Bases

the real distinction is active curation versus algorithmic passivity.

Those who maintain curated RSS feeds, follow specific critics, actively seek content rather than accept recommendations—they occupy a different position in the status hierarchy than those who let the algorithm feed them.

This is the new elite: the curators. The ones who resist the... See more

The human curator controls the generative process through their work in architectural planning, their expertise in dialogue, their ability to evaluate, and integrate information.

Knowledge development requires more than basic sentence construction because it needs purposeful intellectual design , critical evaluation , thoughtful synthesis , and epistemic responsibility assumption.

This is analogous to the originality of the film director, conceptualized in auteur theory 24 as the primary author of a film (Sarris, 1962). A director is usually seen as the author of a movie, even though she did not write every line of dialogue. It is thought that her originality exists in her unique vision and the masterful integration of... See more

Finally, the integrative virtue enables people to merge different elements into a single complete system. The author needs to merge AI-generated content with their personal writing and ideas to produce a unified logical final product. Our ability to process information at a basic cognitive level enables us to merge information from multiple sources... See more

Third, and most importantly we need to consider the evaluative virtue . The operation of critical epistemic filtering depends on this virtue to achieve its goals. A large language model (LLM) generates intellectual raw material through its output, but the accuracy of these results remains unverified. The situation requires a strategic solution... See more