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by iammjm 36 days ago
You might find the hypothesis more convincing if you replace technology (something you clearly care about and are up to date with) with something that's not generally your thing but which changes dynamically, like maybe music, fashion, or architecture
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> You might find the hypothesis more convincing if you replace technology [...] with something that's not generally your thing but which changes dynamically, like maybe music, fashion, or architecture

Let's take music. I clearly grew up in an environment where I think I got a rather "acquired", high-brow taste in music.

While I, as of today, do see that some of this taste that I was imprinted with can be a little bit arbitrary, I would clearly say that nevertheless my taste in music is strongly influenced by whether it fits the "taste values" with which I was shaped early in my life, similarly to what I wrote in my previous post:

> So, in my experience it is typically not about the year when something was invented, but rather about whether the invention is a good or bad fit for the values that you were shaped with in your early life.