"...scores AI models the way creative experts do." It began with this post by @contraben

I went through the comments and came across an article posted by @NotoOnKetamine titled "Taste was always the job".

In the article, the author writes that "Marc Andreessen points to institutional navigation as one durable human advantage: the messy, political work of getting organizations to actually adopt change." This reminded me of a YouTube video I had watched a few days earlier titled "Retired Amazon VP: How Corporate Politics Work And How To Win | Ethan Evans" There are so many topics in that video that I would like to explore more but one that particularly stands out is where the former VC talks about empire building (around minute 2:37):

"...empire building I think is a bad thing in that as defined it means focusing more on getting raw number of people than on what you're doing or the impact you're having....Empire building exists because it's rewarded. And it's rewarded because counting people is the easiest thing to do. And so when a leader or a set of leaders are deciding who's ready to promote, how much impact you had is subjective...no one can debate, well, Ethan has 42 people and Ryan has 17. Ethan is the bigger leader is the conclusion they're making. And that encourages empire building because it's what's visibly measurable."

Later, I came across a great video where Trevor Noah interviewed Kenyan, Wawira Njiru, founder and CEO of food4education. I was so proud and impressed by what my countrymate was doing but at some point, I begun having a mini existential crisis. Poverty and hunger are big problems in Kenya and here was Wawira, directly dealing with this problem. Numbers don't lie. As the CEO of the Skoll Foundation mentioned during her introduction of the interview (around minute 1:14): "What began with 25 children and a conviction is now an organization serving 600,000 hot meals every day. That's all powered by Africa's largest green kitchen, a cashless payment system, and thousands of community members running the the operation. Her goal is 3 million meals a day by 2030."

In the face of poverty and hunger, is there a need for Afrogoth, a fashion movement for curious, playful, global citizens who love the stories and histories that clothes tell? Is Afrogoth in bad taste?

Ethan Evans goes on to say (at around minute 4:25): "...impact is harder to assess, right?...What's most important? Is it operational performance? Is it new features shipped? Is it whether or not those new features resonate in the market and make money?...infrastructure. Well, now how do we compare that? Like you're keeping the systems up, but I'm actually the one bringing in all the money. Who has more impact?...I have to look at you and say, "Ryan, we love the work you've done and you're on the right path, but Ethan was more impactful." And that just makes you mad probably unless you happen to agree like, "Oh yeah, that guy's a star." It's just all these things make assessing impact difficult and dangerous and that's why it doesn't get done as much as it should."

Afrogoth uses fashion to explore why things are the way they are, why there is still widespread poverty and hunger in a continent that is rich in various minerals. In April, I begun a "Minerals in Africa series". So far, there are three A.I. fashion shows: Lithium, copper and cobalt. You can watch the cobalt a.i. fashion show on YouTube.

Music is by Producer.ai with my original prompt being: "Afrogoth Kenyan Taarab. Dirge. Lyrics: Dini ya madini, jini ya madini"

Dini is Swahili for religion, madini is minerals, jini is ghost/monster