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Because creativity by definition involves not only novelty but value, and because values are highly variable, it follows that many arguments about creativity are rooted in disagreements about value.
Margaret Boden • Creativity in a Nutshell
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Hypothesis 2: The "bad taste" hypothesisThe "bad taste" hypothesis says that conventional wisdom on what art and science were "great" is consistently screwed up and biased toward the past.
Holden Karnofsky • Where's Today's Beethoven?
An Albert Einstein quote: “Somebody who only reads newspapers and at best books of contemporary authors looks to me like an extremely near-sighted person who scorns eyeglasses. He is dependent on the prejudices and fashions of his times since he never gets to see or hear anything else.”
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The algorithms that shape our cultural landscape are not inherently malicious. They are indifferent. Their purpose is not to destroy art but to optimize engagement—a goal that, while profitable, is fundamentally incompatible with the principles of artistic innovation.