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Lab diamonds are adding impurities to mimic natural diamonds. Electric guitars are more popular than theremins. Photoshop lets you paint with brushes.

These are all examples to show that when we are given a technology that allows us to access any point in a high-dimensional space of possibilities, humans will explore it starting from what they already know.

There are probably points in food space much better than what we have already, but it's going to take us a while to find them.



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