When a restaurant meal costs the avg person 2 hours worth of labor to pay for, I'm not going to criticize people for looking at ways to optimize their ordering.
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If youre trying to optimize ordering, doing so with a slop machine that tells you to eat glue and rocks is not the way to do it.
jul 26, 2025, 3:07 pm • 5 0 • view
I recognise this sort of anxiety about decision making. I haven't had it around restaurant ordering, but I have with other things. But the answer is to work on the anxiety and accept not always making the perfect choice, not to outsource your decision making to a machine.
jul 25, 2025, 2:53 pm • 7 0 • view
Damn. Then don’t go out to eat? How have we survived all these years eating food at restaurants without an inaccurate machine telling us to order something that isn’t even on the menu and never has been?
jul 25, 2025, 2:31 pm • 44 1 • view
Yes if there ends up being a tool that can potentially make your expensive meal more enjoyable and cost effective and doesn't result in a single person losing their job, you should just stay home for spite.
jul 25, 2025, 5:03 pm • 0 0 • view
It’s a waste of electricity. It’s a waste of carbon. That’s the issue. It’s horrifically wasteful in an era we need to be reducing pollution.
jul 25, 2025, 5:12 pm • 12 0 • view
Really? This is your argument? You are seriously focusing on a chatgpt search as the area of unnecessary resources being wasted at a RESTAURANT meal. This is embarrassing
jul 25, 2025, 5:20 pm • 0 0 • view
No one will suffer if you don’t use an LLM for a restaurant. It’s an easy change.
jul 25, 2025, 5:23 pm • 5 0 • view
Gotta start somewhere
jul 25, 2025, 5:24 pm • 3 0 • view
IF the AI worked to help you select a meal you'd more enjoy , it would almost certainly be a resources saver.
jul 25, 2025, 5:27 pm • 0 0 • view
How? How is this worth 5 minutes of reading and processing using the glucose you’re about to replenish with food that has already been obtained, just needs prepped and served, compared to the hydrocarbons that will be used to produce the electricity to power the search? You’re ADDING CO2
jul 25, 2025, 5:33 pm • 4 0 • view
If you throw away the food you didn't like its a complete waste, made worse bc you are likely to eat something else. Are you a head injury victim?
jul 25, 2025, 5:40 pm • 1 0 • view
You can’t tell what you like based on ingredients? You are so stupid as to be confused by descriptions? That’s what you’re saying. Just order from the kid’s menu. You keep insulting me, but I’m not the one using an app to know what to eat.
jul 25, 2025, 6:07 pm • 2 0 • view
Exactly, using that much energy for a meal is ridiculous. Especially since you have an organ made for such tasks.
jul 25, 2025, 5:22 pm • 16 0 • view
An organ that runs on the meal it is selecting!
jul 26, 2025, 5:43 am • 7 0 • view
You are not a serious person
jul 25, 2025, 5:24 pm • 0 0 • view
I can at least figure out what to eat despite having food allergies.
jul 25, 2025, 5:26 pm • 9 0 • view
We went to McDonald’s, where we knew what we were getting no matter time/place/circumstance, and accepted mid quality in place of near certainty. That’s what we did.
jul 26, 2025, 10:21 am • 1 0 • view
And you're going to let a broken video game spend that money for you? WTF happened to you?
jul 26, 2025, 10:51 am • 10 0 • view
Asking something that can't taste what the best tasting dish would be.
jul 26, 2025, 11:08 am • 8 0 • view
One thing that happened was I went to school and I learned reading and comprehension
jul 26, 2025, 12:13 pm • 0 0 • view
If you don't have any sense of your own taste and preferences, the winning move is not to play. Stay home and drink some Soylent.
jul 25, 2025, 3:26 pm • 9 0 • view
How would you know if you like something at a restaurant you never ate at. Why are you being so f'ing obtuse. If AI worked this would be a good use... 'before I order a $50+ meal at a place I've never been to go out and synthesize the consensus as to what this restaurant is good at preparing.'
jul 25, 2025, 5:14 pm • 0 0 • view
At the vast majority of restaurants, there isn't much difference in quality between the dishes, so it comes down to whether you like, eg, spicy food. The worst thing that's likely to happen if you don't make the best choice is that you still get a perfectly pleasant meal.
jul 25, 2025, 5:57 pm • 3 0 • view
The ridiculous lengths you will go to avoid aknowledging that your initial criticism may be overdone is down right Trumpian.
jul 25, 2025, 6:00 pm • 0 0 • view
What? Look, do you not eat much of a variety of food generally? Because I have genuinely never had an issue looking at the one-line descriptions on a menu and getting an idea of what I fancy.
jul 25, 2025, 6:06 pm • 3 0 • view
And youv never been disappointed?
jul 25, 2025, 6:20 pm • 0 0 • view
Not majorly, no. Where I have been, it's been about the choice of restaurant rather than the dish.
jul 25, 2025, 9:09 pm • 0 0 • view
I look at the menu, imagine what the dish is like based on its description, and then imagine whether I would enjoy it. It's deeply weird that I need to explain this.
jul 25, 2025, 8:58 pm • 10 0 • view
It's deeply weird that people have been creating and consuming restaurant reviews of various forms for nearly a century when all they had to do was read a menu.
jul 25, 2025, 10:11 pm • 0 0 • view
You're really not beating the "has never been to a human restaurant or read an actual restaurant review" allegations here.
jul 25, 2025, 10:38 pm • 3 0 • view
I have, in fact, read a lot of restaurant reviews, and even written a few, and never once did I imagine that any reader would be trying to "synthesize a consensus" on how to "optimize" their menu choice.
jul 25, 2025, 10:40 pm • 4 0 • view
And if the restaurant has specific stuff on their menu that they're bad at preparing, or the menu doesn't accurately reflect the food... that's a bad restaurant! If you're already at a bad restaurant you're not going to salvage the situation by asking around for the One Good Menu Item.
jul 25, 2025, 9:01 pm • 3 0 • view
God not everything has to be "optimized." The living is done in the experience, in trying things, not in "optimization." Just live for fuck's sake, it's fine
jul 25, 2025, 6:35 pm • 14 0 • view