You'd have to get there through gradient descent, though. A pile of dark-chocolate chips is quite good, but a "cookie" that is a pile of chips baked with a smal

You'd have to get there through gradient descent, though. A pile of dark-chocolate chips is quite good, but a "cookie" that is a pile of chips baked with a small but nonzero amount of butter, flour, and baking soda... isn't. Gradient descent would have trouble with getting you through that, because cutting out the baking only makes it worse, and cutting out the other ingredients without cutting out the baking _also_ only makes it worse, and reducing the amounts of everything that isn't chocolate without bringing them to zero _still_ only makes it worse.