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What I heard: "I find it useful to distinguish products on a single axis of quality, and therefore to distinguish talent on a single axis of being able to produ
by evrydayhustling 5y ago
What I heard: "I find it useful to distinguish products on a single axis of quality, and therefore to distinguish talent on a single axis of being able to produce it. I can't imagine living without doing this ranking, so that single axis must be an objective truth others should align with."
For what it's worth, I agree with Paul about valuing art that demonstrates a type of technical mastery, and I like ranking things. But having multiple axes of quality, and disagreeing about how to assess and prioritize them, is far more useful: it's what makes a market. Just because your ranking is useful to you doesn't make it an objective truth. On the other hand, the absence of objective "good taste" doesn't make discussions about merit useless.
- TimPC 5y agoI think a more favourable interpretation is “Taste is multidimensional and complex but to show it exists it is sufficient to show it exists for the simplest to prove dimension. Technical talent is that least subjective dimension. Argument follows.”
- evrydayhustling 5y agoAppreciate this read. However, doesn't the result in this case end up being trivial? "No matter how complex the subject, I can find a part we all agree on." That's great, but it doesn't prove a meaningful notion of agreement about the whole, and I missed any argument that it could.