taste > skills
taste seems more scarce these days, and increasingly differentiating in the age of AI where so much of skills-based productivity is offloaded to compute.

makes me think about the development of taste, and how we nurture taste for the next gen of humans.

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The framing doesn’t resonate tbh. Skills beget tastes beget skills beget tastes, etc. It’s all in pursuit of quality and values

Taste is an infinite game, skills a finite one. But they’re part of the same process. Taste is the underlying form that guides the function of skills in a dynamic values process

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This raises a salient distinction: the pursuit of skills (infinite) vs the relative comparison of skills in a well-defined, rules-based domain (finite).

The player can always refine their skills and skill refinement is not a winning or losing game. When skills go head-to-head in certain domains, winners/losers emerge.

You can always refine your skills. I would not say skills are finite. Knowledge isn't finite.

You can learn skills, but taste is developed by looking at things and deciding whether you like it or not or should like it or not, based on an emotional response, how you would like to be perceived, etc. Taste is influenced by your tribe or community.