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If you give professional chef an elaborate dish and the recipe for it, will they be able to make exactly the same thing?

• numbsafari 3y ago
  Probably not, in isolation. But can the original chef that wrote the recipe produce the same thing several million or billion times a year?
• iancmceachern 3y ago
  We can't even replicate the F1 engine, or make new nukes anymore, and we have the recipe book and the chefs.
  • rbanffy 3y ago
    We can’t make F1s because the supply chains that made the materials and the parts no longer exist. We could try to approximate one with new materials and techniques, but it would not be an F1 - it’d be a design derived from it. That’s the thing with the chefs - you can’t make a mammoth dish because there are no more mammoth to cook.
    • iancmceachern 3y ago
      Yes they do, the supply chains still exist, we still use many of those alloys, etc. We still make rocket engines. In the F1's case we were just going too fast and didn't write things down. In the nuclear weapons case we deliberately dismantled it.
      • rbanffy 3y ago
        > In the nuclear weapons case we deliberately dismantled it. I'd say that is actually a good thing. Nukes are meant not to be used. They are a deterrent, so it's important they exist, that they are functional, and that you are willing to use them to hit hard against an aggressor. MAD kept us alive until now.