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Making food is a lot like making musical instruments, or writing elegant code for that matter. You can mass produce or machine generate it and it will be decent
by BigChiefSmokem 12y ago
Making food is a lot like making musical instruments, or writing elegant code for that matter. You can mass produce or machine generate it and it will be decent, but to get that nuance - that warm sound, that rich texture, that super edge case - you need human hands and human instinct behind the process.
Another example of how science and technology can sometimes be perfect to a fault. Turns out, deep down, we don't like perfect.
- twiceaday 12y agoThis is a heap of feel-good nonsense. You are simply referencing the meme of home cooking and artisan hand crafted instruments without juatification. Furthermore, the aforementioned items are all highly subjective and strictly for human consumption so it is no surprise that human involvement is paramount. What is the correct/best amount/type of human involvement?
- BigChiefSmokem 12y agoNo it's from many years of experience in all of the stated domains (cooking, coding, and crafting instruments with my own hands). The grave mistake very logical people make is to think that they can define, decipher, and manipulate all properties of any given domain without any regard to that fact that no domain exists in a vacuum, and thus, not all thing in this universe can be quantifiable. Trying to quantify human involvement in anything is pretty much the same as asking, "why are we here?".
- SnacksOnAPlane 12y agoI disagree. Everything is quantifiable. Everything comes down to physical reactions that happen predictably. Even emotions like love and hate boil down to patterns of neurons firing and hormone levels.