Imagine you have a friend who has seen basically every movie or TV show ever made. They’ve read every piece of analysis. They know the plot, the themes, the sub-themes, and the sub-sub-themes.
They’d probably be pretty good at six degrees of Kevin Bacon. Sure. But they’d also probably be pretty good at seven degrees of your taste. Given thing you liked A, and thing you liked B, what else might you like?
The hard part for them isn’t knowing the path from A to B, the hard part is knowing A and knowing B.
Well, I have good news. That friend’s name is Claude. And here’s how I taught it my own personal point A and point B across various kinds of media.
Step 1
Dear Claude, hi how are you? I’m fine. I would like you to interview me about my taste in movies. I think a good way to explore this is by talking about what movies I’ve liked and why I liked them, as well as movies I didn’t like, and why I didn’t like them. My goal is to have you write a markdown file that captures my taste preferences in movies, not as a list of movies I’ve liked, but as the themes and “clumps” that run across them, and which could be used to predict movies I’d like in the future.
