Research.
Notes on what it means to represent a person’s taste: what the literature supports, how we read it, and where we have taken a position. Each note keeps established research, interpretation and our own view separate, and ends with its sources.
Taste Is Not a Vector
Vectors are exceptional tools for computation. The difficulty begins when a representation built for one task is treated as a sufficient model of the person behind it.
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Preference Has a History
An observation is not only a value. It carries a date, a context and a relation to everything observed before it. Every preference has provenance.
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Context Is Part of the Preference
Preference is inferred from evidence produced in situations. Removing context does not remove noise. It changes what the observation says about the person.
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Similarity Is Not Understanding
Modern systems are remarkably good at learning which things are related. Relatedness alone does not establish which property of an object mattered, or what should generalize from it.
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Personal AI Needs a Theory of the Person
Personal AI is usually framed as a memory problem. The harder problem is deciding what accumulated evidence should mean about the person it describes.
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