or: I think that’s ugly.

Personalisation produces sameness rather than niches because minimising prediction error means hedging toward the conditional mean, and the resulting world then validates the prediction. Evidence from London high streets, Billboard lyrics, MovieTweetings concentration, and synthetic personas; the fix is a mandated exploration floor of about twenty percent, since a token discovery tab does nothing.

Aesthetics is this: if you like it, you like it. Good things are good, bad things are bad.

🔗 🤖 Temperature Zero for Culture: Why Everything Is Starting to Look the Same