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> I order food from a restaurant, but I don't enjoy that as much because it is (similar to having AI approve and send your emails without you) a qualitatively different experience.

What do you like less about it? Is it the smells of cooking, the family checking on the food as it cooks, the joy of realizing your own handiwork?

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For me, I think it's the act of control and creation -- I can put the things I like together and try new thing and experiment with techniques or ingredients, whereas ordering from a restaurant I'll only be seeing the end results from someone else's experimentation or experience.

I don't dislike restaurants, to be clear -- I love a dinner out. It just scratches a different itch than cooking a meal at home.

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