You must know slop to know craft: discernment is embodied judgment earned over time
floguo · x · 2026-09-21
"One must know slop to know craft, and craft to know slop." The author argues discernment is embodied judgment and wisdom earned across time — and that we often make bad things first in order to eventually make good ones, a pointed reflection on taste in the age of abundant AI slop.
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