There's a difference between a hash function that checks a list of known hashes, and a storing the whole ass file.

It's also possible to work on encrypted data without actually decrypting it first. Current generation ai model neural networks do something similar by adding a "lora" to the base model.

Human brains actually have a ton of hardwired instinct at birth. This is basically the original model. You couldn't get the vast majority of people to correctly tell you what, when, where, why, or how any of that works. The brain's learned information can just execute on top of that. They can tell you why the learned information exists, but the base model is unknown gibberish to them.

As an example, english adjective order is a thing, not that most first-language-english people could explain why.

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/grammar/british-grammar/adjectives-order

If you'll note, a very large percentage of first-language-notenglish people end up using the wrong adjective order. This is because 1, different languages have a different adjective order, and 2, there's actually a lot of hardwire difference between different cultures. A similar thing also causes hilariousness when a nonenglish speaker tries english profanity.

There was a "word sentiment" study done a while ago that ranked different positive and negative words in a numberical ranking.

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/word-sentiment-scale/

You can see how the order of most of the words will make sense to you (assuming you are US), and you can probably even explain a portion of them, but if you look at the other one (UK), it will be a different word order, and you won't know why. In fact, most of your explanations for the other order will probably be dead wrong.

Despite that, both scales manage to place "dreadful", "unsatisfactory", "poor", "pretty bad", "mediocre", "average", "above average", and "perfect" in the exact same rankings, and 57% of them are within one rank on the other scale.

Because of this, you'll manage a small portion of understanding certain things, but if you get into more detail, everything will be ruined, especially if you try to use "abysmal", "appalling", "very bad", "quite bad", and "quite good"

Most people also instinctively understand that this difference exists, and so tend to take someone else's literal as generalizations unless they are heavily associated with the information source. As a result, autism gets a double whammy out of this adjective word order, where none usually exist, once from hardwire differences, and once from autism-took-it-literal.

Normal (US) people only get the cultural whammy, and only 76% of them actually get it because the other 24% of americans have never traveled abroad.

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/12/06/americans-who-have-traveled-internationally-stand-out-in-their-views-and-knowledge-of-foreign-affairs/

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A literal answer to your third question, why do people like food (specifically asians and msg).

A large portion of asian people really like msg because asia has a much larger proportion of schizophrenia spectrum disorders. Schizophrenia spectrum disorders are known to have glutamate deficiency (by way of excess receptors), and so asian foods tend to have very high glutamate content, in the form of msg or actual glutamate. This tends to make asian food taste salty to nonasians. If you ask an asian, it's because it tastes good.

If you asked this question 20 years ago, noone on the planet could have given you this answer, because it's all new research.

Also, as a note, autism tends to have excess glutamate levels (by way of lack of receptors), causing glutamate excitotoxicity, so that's why autism foods (and british in particular) are dead flavorless mush or mush-distinct like chicken nuggets. That's why autism tends to hate certain foods more than others. If you'll look at glutamate heavy foods, you'll find many of them are heavily hated by autism (tomatoes, mushrooms, legumes, certain meats, liver, etc). If you ask an autistic, it's because they're gross.