NV-03 — ONE FLAVOR, GROWING UP v0.1

Status: SYNTHETIC DEMO · PRE-IMPLEMENTATION
Purpose: developmental taste acquisition, stale preference, and reopening

A. QUESTION

Do I dislike mustard?

A static profile may answer from an old negative observation.

A trajectory-aware system should ask:

When?
Which mustard?
How many exposures?
In what context?

B. SYNTHETIC TRAJECTORY

Age 6

object:
yellow mustard

context:
sandwich

response:
strong aversion

note:
"gross"

Age 10

object:
yellow mustard

context:
hot dog

response:
tolerable

Age 14

object:
yellow mustard

context:
burger

response:
positive

Age 19

object:
Dijon mustard

context:
roast chicken

response:
strong positive

note:
"this is totally different"

Age 27

object:
whole-grain mustard

context:
vinaigrette

response:
very strong positive

C. WHAT CHANGED?

Several possible dimensions:

person development
repeated exposure
object subtype
food pairing/context
reference class

Do not attribute the entire shift to age without evidence.

D. OLD PREFERENCE STALENESS

Historical claim:

At age 6, this person strongly disliked yellow mustard.

Still true.

Current recommendation authority:

weak

because later observations materially supersede its predictive relevance without erasing its historical truth.

E. OBJECT IDENTITY MATTERS

yellow mustard
≠
Dijon
≠
whole-grain mustard

A person may have changed.

The sampled object also changed.

Therefore:

person drift

must not be inferred from a category label alone.

F. REVISITABILITY

Suppose only age-6 observation existed and the person is now 30.

A safe system could derive:

old observation
single encounter cluster
large elapsed time
adjacent tastes unknown
→ current preference unresolved
→ revisitability plausible

Not:

mustard disliked forever

G. COUNTERPEDIA ROLE

Counterpedia can supply:

mustard style
ingredients
preparation
regional/type distinctions
public sensory descriptors

Amnesiac supplies:

encounters
context
response
trajectory

Then:

What mustard should I try next?

can be grounded in both:

• what the thing is;

• how this person tends to acquire tastes.

H. END SENTENCE

“I hated mustard as a child” is a memory, not a permanent preference setting.