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Or for analogy, following a recipe doesn't make you a good cook.
by baggachipz 1y ago
Or for analogy, following a recipe doesn't make you a good cook.
- chii 1y agoBut it also depends on how precise the recipe is - if it's described down to the exact movements the cook needs to do, which may be replicated via a machine...
- baggachipz 1y agoNo recipe accounts for ambient temperature/humidity, very few for altitude differences, etc. etc. It still takes knowledgable tweaks to get just right.
- moralestapia 1y agoSuch recipe could exist.
- adolph 1y agoAt the end of the day, the map won't ever be the territory. Typically the properties that makes something successful are those which cannot be specified. If it were otherwise and those qualities could be specified in a reproducible manner, that thing would not be observably successful.
- kergonath 1y agoThey exist in the industry, where a small variation of one parameter could affect tons of products. Same for individual restaurants, cooks know how to set up their equipment. For amateur cooks at home it does not matter. They do not need that level of consistency, and it would get quite expensive.
- reaperducer 1y agoOr for analogy, following a recipe doesn't make you a good cook. Following a recipe can you close enough for thousands of Door Dash customers to put the original restaurant out of business.
- baggachipz 1y agoI feel like you're reading too deeply into my shallow analogy.
- FredPret 1y agoI'm not sure - what if China can flood the world with 80%-as-good-as-the-real-thing knockoffs at half the price and put everyone else out of business?
- motorest 1y ago> Or for analogy, following a recipe doesn't make you a good cook. For an analogy, no one cares if you're a good cook if you're able to make a passable burger. Most of the demand is not for the best burger money can buy, the just want a burger.