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The Machine Cook

Would you rather eat that or her actual cooking?

The Machine Cook

A machine can build a plate of your grandmother's stew from scratch, matching the real thing down to the last molecule. Same taste, same steam, same burnt bit at the edge. It takes nine seconds and costs almost nothing.

Would you rather eat that or her actual cooking?

Then ask

  • What's missing from the machine's plate, in plain words?
  • Would you serve it to guests without saying where it came from?
  • If you couldn't tell them apart blindfolded, why do you still prefer one?

The classics and some new ones. A scenario, the question it forces, and the follow-ups that make it bite.

More at this level

  1. The Same Boat
  2. The Room of Slips
  3. Mary's Grey Room
  4. The Lever
  5. The Handwriting
  6. The New Song
  7. Same Dog
  8. The Forgery