I really like the some of the references to vaporwave (“nostalgia and longing for a past that never existed”).
My first guess is that it will be deceptively hard for EA to find and get an artist/auteur/vision and execution.
I think it’s deceptively hard to be good at art, sort of like how it’s hard to be good at meta.
My concern is that one of the failure modes will occur:
due to issues with talent strangling of an“intellectual poverty trap” and talent bouncing off, supply is low and the actual best visions for how aesthetics could be used never even gets presented to EA.
compromise occurs and what achieved is piecemeal and mediocre and people can’t see this
the actual vision gets presented but no one can really see or understand it, because they rightfully fear the person is a crank
With great uncertainty, my guess is that one solution is to give (multiple) exploratory commissions to potential artists/designers/architects of this strategy (who will be of very high ability) AND bake in high quality, high insight senior EA supervision in this process.
Then present the solution (with the senior EA fronting/socializing the writing and presenting to EA, not the artist) and then have everyone grit their teeth and do it.
I would strongly support doing this—I have strong roots in the artistic world, and there are many extremely talented artists online that I think could potentially be of value to EA.
I really like the some of the references to vaporwave (“nostalgia and longing for a past that never existed”).
My first guess is that it will be deceptively hard for EA to find and get an artist/auteur/vision and execution.
I think it’s deceptively hard to be good at art, sort of like how it’s hard to be good at meta.
My concern is that one of the failure modes will occur:
due to issues with talent strangling of an“intellectual poverty trap” and talent bouncing off, supply is low and the actual best visions for how aesthetics could be used never even gets presented to EA.
compromise occurs and what achieved is piecemeal and mediocre and people can’t see this
the actual vision gets presented but no one can really see or understand it, because they rightfully fear the person is a crank
With great uncertainty, my guess is that one solution is to give (multiple) exploratory commissions to potential artists/designers/architects of this strategy (who will be of very high ability) AND bake in high quality, high insight senior EA supervision in this process.
Then present the solution (with the senior EA fronting/socializing the writing and presenting to EA, not the artist) and then have everyone grit their teeth and do it.
I would strongly support doing this—I have strong roots in the artistic world, and there are many extremely talented artists online that I think could potentially be of value to EA.