I expect good second order taste comes from good first order taste.
That is, you know what good looks like, and you know what it looks like when someone is able to evaluate what’s good. Then you can pattern match and say “yeah, if I was really into thing X, I’d probably come to similar opinions as person Y, so I’m going to trust person Y’s taste here”.
If you don’t have good taste yourself then I expect it to be much harder to evaluate good second order taste because you don’t have a strong conviction about what good looks like.
Second-order taste seems like a multiplier, or filling in the gaps, of the first-order taste.
If you have no idea about what is good or bad, then you have no idea whose advice it is better to follow. Even if you choose, you probably do it using criteria such as “high status” or “talks convincingly”.
But if you can tell that some things are good and some things are bad, you can find people who consistently call the good things good and the bad things bad… and then you can follow their advice about the things you are not sure about.
I expect good second order taste comes from good first order taste.
That is, you know what good looks like, and you know what it looks like when someone is able to evaluate what’s good. Then you can pattern match and say “yeah, if I was really into thing X, I’d probably come to similar opinions as person Y, so I’m going to trust person Y’s taste here”.
If you don’t have good taste yourself then I expect it to be much harder to evaluate good second order taste because you don’t have a strong conviction about what good looks like.
Second-order taste seems like a multiplier, or filling in the gaps, of the first-order taste.
If you have no idea about what is good or bad, then you have no idea whose advice it is better to follow. Even if you choose, you probably do it using criteria such as “high status” or “talks convincingly”.
But if you can tell that some things are good and some things are bad, you can find people who consistently call the good things good and the bad things bad… and then you can follow their advice about the things you are not sure about.