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And, of course, it will be inferior to what the machines make. Just like machine created cutlery is essentially perfect, but human smithed cutlery will have lo
by eru 1y ago
And, of course, it will be inferior to what the machines make.
Just like machine created cutlery is essentially perfect, but human smithed cutlery will have lots of small imperfections.
- whtrbt 1y agoIn what way do those imperfections make something like cutlery inferior?
- nomel 1y agoI think there are many more examples of his point. Food, for example. McDonalds famously adds non-uniformity, scorch marks, etc to their bread and meat to make it appear as if it wasn't manufactured within small dimensional tolerances.
- conception 1y agoIt won’t always be inferior. Some items are just not profitable or too bespoke for mass production.
- pjmlp 1y agoAnd yet many people pay small fortunes to get those small imperfections instead of the machine ones, nowadays considered collection items.
- eru 1y agoYes, humans pay for all kinds of interesting quirks.
- oneeyedpigeon 1y agoCutlery is, of course, a very different thing from artistic works. Has a machine ever created cutlery as beautiful as a human being can?
- eru 1y agoWell, conventionally a human being designs the cutlery, and a machine produces to that design. And yes, they can be quite pretty. What you see as the absolutely most beautify fork is in the eye of the beholder, of course.
- fennecbutt 1y agoHandmade cutlery is an artistic work. Machine made cutlery is an artistic work. Remember, the benchmark for art is a banana taped to a wall.