'Taste' Is Mostly the Ability to Tell Reality From Marketing Materials
generativist · x · 2026-10-29
Generativist argues that much of what tech lately calls "taste" is really the ability to correctly distinguish reality from marketing materials — a skill in short supply because the population that "doesn't know any better" has overgrown.
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