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.
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.