Taste works well when you are in a position to receive a large amount of work that can be organised in a hierarchy according to the work's quality. We will need

Taste works well when you are in a position to receive a large amount of work that can be organised in a hierarchy according to the work's quality. We will need a lot of that in a few years. Working up from first principles, staying on time to produce a large quantity of stuff and discovering new facts are valuable methods too. You can't get to useful work from tasting without an ocean of work to receive.