What Silicon Valley gets wrong about taste

Celine Nguyen:

models have “read” at least 482,460 books. But even Claude Opus 4.8 hasn’t written a short story that I enjoy more than those by Lydia Davis or Jessi Jezewska Stevens — both of whom, despite being prodigiously well-read, have almost certainly read fewer books.

Idk who needs to hear this, but humans are not computers. The brain is not a CPU. Do what makes you human, not what makes you computer-y.

very distinctively human — to train yourself in ways that seem like a waste of time.