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<blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 7469151" data-attributes="member: 19675"><p>Re: Wellington</p><p></p><p>I’d say it still matters. If the chef in question was the culinary equivalent of Mark Kostabi*, you may THINK you were paying for a genuine Wellington, but you are going to get what all of his customers get- something that is NOT what your waitperson put on the ticket. You’re going to get the “Chef Kostabi Experience”, and if that isn’t what you wanted, that’s on you.</p><p></p><p>If the chef was merely incompetent or “culinarily aphasic”, he still intended to give you what you wanted. The person who put them in position to disappoint you, OTOH, deserves your ire. (Neither “chef” belongs in a kitchen, though- both are health hazards who also risk violating people’s religious or adopted culinary restrictions as well.)</p><p></p><p>But that just gets us into the territory of being bad at what you’ve chosen to do and being unaware of your incompetence. It does not nullify your intent.</p><p></p><p>I will concede that, absent true AI, a robochef a la <em>X Files: Rm9sbG93ZXJz</em> probably has no intent to speak of.</p><p></p><p>Re: your conclusion</p><p></p><p>There are many creative pieces- some masterpieces, even- whose true meaning is openly debated**, even centuries later. Just because you or I or millions cannot discern the meaning doesn’t mean the communication was bad. You or I or the millions may not be the intended audience, so our understanding is irrelevant to the creator.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>* MK rose to prominence in the 1990s when he openly used a system akin to Andy Warhol’s using art students to produce parts or even entire canvases to which his name was affixed. Eventually, even his signature was done by an employee. What you got for your $10k+ was performance art- MK berating you as an idiot and a moron for buying “an original Kostabi” which was essentially nothing but a complete forgery. The thing hanging on your wall, then, was merely a reminder of the performance.</p><p></p><p>** the smile on Da Vinci’s <em>Mona Lisa</em>; Mark Rothko’s <em>Black</em> series; James Joyce’s <em>Finnegan’s Wake</em>; John Cage’s <em>4’33”</em>; the pictographs and petroglyphs of lost or forgotten human cultures.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dannyalcatraz, post: 7469151, member: 19675"] Re: Wellington I’d say it still matters. If the chef in question was the culinary equivalent of Mark Kostabi*, you may THINK you were paying for a genuine Wellington, but you are going to get what all of his customers get- something that is NOT what your waitperson put on the ticket. You’re going to get the “Chef Kostabi Experience”, and if that isn’t what you wanted, that’s on you. If the chef was merely incompetent or “culinarily aphasic”, he still intended to give you what you wanted. The person who put them in position to disappoint you, OTOH, deserves your ire. (Neither “chef” belongs in a kitchen, though- both are health hazards who also risk violating people’s religious or adopted culinary restrictions as well.) But that just gets us into the territory of being bad at what you’ve chosen to do and being unaware of your incompetence. It does not nullify your intent. I will concede that, absent true AI, a robochef a la [I]X Files: Rm9sbG93ZXJz[/I] probably has no intent to speak of. Re: your conclusion There are many creative pieces- some masterpieces, even- whose true meaning is openly debated**, even centuries later. Just because you or I or millions cannot discern the meaning doesn’t mean the communication was bad. You or I or the millions may not be the intended audience, so our understanding is irrelevant to the creator. * MK rose to prominence in the 1990s when he openly used a system akin to Andy Warhol’s using art students to produce parts or even entire canvases to which his name was affixed. Eventually, even his signature was done by an employee. What you got for your $10k+ was performance art- MK berating you as an idiot and a moron for buying “an original Kostabi” which was essentially nothing but a complete forgery. The thing hanging on your wall, then, was merely a reminder of the performance. ** the smile on Da Vinci’s [I]Mona Lisa[/I]; Mark Rothko’s [I]Black[/I] series; James Joyce’s [I]Finnegan’s Wake[/I]; John Cage’s [I]4’33”[/I]; the pictographs and petroglyphs of lost or forgotten human cultures. [/QUOTE]
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