But there's stuff going on here that's actually more interesting than the culture wars. See this thing on southern biscuits for eg. or Jiro dreams of Sushi. What is new here is not the obsessive nerding out, but doing so quantitatively.https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2018/11/better-biscuits-south-thanksgiving/576526/?fbclid=IwAR3eipMrnyldUcfq38Okkoxqll5ErghSbsCR9D5H_MeM4CJ1CgvAonZqyUw …
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What both lack is a sense of perspective on how much a particular topic is worth nerding out over at all. Both street vendors and McDonald's scale chains have the opposite bias: aggressively optimize only that which makes a difference to the bottomline. All else is wankery.
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Wanking us the fun part though so of course that's what the hobbyist focuses on
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I'd love to see a baking movement that denies all science and only allows for superstition. "We must pray over the bread to get it to rise" The Great Midwestern Baking Show.
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Traditionalism perpetuates gramdma’s heirloom bread at all costs. Less Wrongianism optimizes in the noise zone: marginal improvements squeezed out at great marginal cost. AlphaGoOven has a chance of actually wrangling Bread 2.0 The rest of us have moved on to avocado toast
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