Brittany Luce

Not just self-knowledge, but collective knowledge.

I mean, I think this is the case for a lot of people.

Our taste is developed through knowing other people and seeing the world through their eyes, hearing music through their ears.

You kind of have to be in the world a bit.

Exactly.

Absolutely.

To that thought, if these AI companies are trying to monetize taste, that brings me to a philosophical question.

Like, do you think there's a quality to having taste that is uniquely human that AI can't replicate?

Such as, at least in my mind, kind of like being in the world and like mixing with people?

Like one of the people that's probably influenced my taste a lot, I'm rolling my eyes because the answer is corny.

It's my husband.

We spent a lot of time together, you know?

So it's like, it'd be kind of weird if we weren't like having a mind meld in this way.

I think back to like when we were first dating and we watched this movie called Pina by Wim Wenders.

It's a documentary about the late choreographer Pina Bausch.

And he was so excited about it.

It was like, I have a memory of watching the film and loving the film, but also a memory of feeling like I was taking a trip through this other person's mind.

But it's linked to all of these other experiences.

It's linked to like the modern dance class I took in my high school.

It's linked to like the years of tap jazz and ballet that I took as a child.