Lawmakers Have No Idea What They’re Doing

Sounds like a headline for literally every issue regarding technology.

Oh, my bad. Completely glossed over the word and was too focused on slop relating to AI.

They use traditional animation for all their videos, what are you talking about?

Have you ever watched the channel? They even made a video outlining their process which takes months of work.

Egyptians did it

You’ll be stuck with Fira Code forever! Hue hue hue hue

Definitely agree. Also, Myriad Pro will always have a place in my heart.

“enhancement”

Same here. I love it when Windsurf corrects nested syntax that’s always a pain, or when I need it to refactor six similar functions into one, or write trivial tests and basic regex. It’s so incredibly handy when it works right.

Sadly other times it cheats and does the lazy thing. Like when I ask it to write me an object, but chooses to derive it from the one I’m trying to rework. That’s when I ask it to move and I do it myself.

I don’t think some of these things are true. I found a lengthy review from a few years ago. This is by no means a debunking because the science may have changed since then, and it’s only one source:

MSG is found in high-protein food products, such as meat or fish, and also in certain types of cheese (Roquefort and Parmesan) or vegetables (tomatoes, mushrooms, broccoli)

It’s not just meat, but many foods contain MSG. I don’t think our body has any reason to associate it with one specific source.

MSG is supplemented in many processed foods (Conn, 1992; Scopp, 1991), with an estimated average daily human intake of around 0.3–1.0 g in European industrialized countries (Beyreuther et al., 2007).

The review offers the following table:

Table 1. Food additives NOAEL and ADI values

This means that a small adult of 70 kg would need to ingest 2.1 g to surpass the recommended dose. That’s 3 times the Acceptable Daily Intake and about 80 times below the toxic level to begin feeling intoxicated. The study also notes that you need to eat it a lot for long periods to have an effect. They even conclude:

we posit that many of the reported negative health effects of MSG have little relevance for chronic human exposure to low doses.

Not to mention that not all of the MSG you consume gets into your system:

Only a very small quantity is subsequently found in the portal blood and, most likely, this originates from glutamine catabolism as a result of intestinal glutaminase activity, rather than from the absorption of dietary glutamate (Battezzati, Brillon, & Matthews, 1995).

In healthy human volunteers, nearly all of the enterally delivered glutamate is removed by the splanchnic bed on the first pass (Matthews, Marano, & Campbell, 1993)

This means that your body filters MSG as it’s absorbed, and that most of the glutamate found in the blood is a byproduct of what’s already in your body.

Another point to note is that its effect is largely dependent on the type of food you eat. You can’t generalize that it’ll have the same effect every time.

Besides its well-known impact on food palatability, MSG enhances salivary secretion and interferes with carbohydrate metabolism, while the impact on satiety and post-meal recovery of hunger varied in relation to meal composition.

(Note that the interference with sugar metabolism may be related to higher doses, according to preclinical studies summarized in Table 4)

And yes, it has a great effect on taste.

In addition to its basic specificity, the umami taste can enhance overall flavor intensity and improve food palatability. This effect is dependent on a variety of factors, the most important being the concentration of umami molecule and the food matrix (Masic & Yeomans, 2013).

This is probably because it’s incorporated as an additive and adsorbed onto the surface of food, which means the molecules are free to interact with your taste receptors first, but this is only my opinion.

A review of the alleged health hazards of monosodium glutamate (Zanfirescu et. al 2019)
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6952072/

But I’m still curious, where did you learn about this mechanism related to meat?

Yussss! Thank you! I’m definitely checking it out. I’ve been told I’m one of the weird ones who they’ve ever seen who uses the thing.

Same here. If a company isn’t upfront about its pricing, all it gets is my suspicion but none of my money. Bye Felicia!

They’ve already corrupted the term “AI” to the point of being completely meaningless

Did they? Afaik, LLMs are an application of AI that falls under natural language processing. It’s like calling a rhombus a geometric shape because that’s what it is. And this usage goes back decades to, for example, A* pathfinding algorithms and hard-coded decision trees for NPCs.

E: Downvotes for what, disagreeing? At least point out why I’m wrong if you think you know better.

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I miss the 70s flair. Can we have Slop-O-Matic 3000 at least?

Because they got fuck-you money.

The fuck is happening over there? Was there lead in the water?

The fuck?

When you need insurance to protect you from your other insurance:

My government issued a report a few years back that estimated male vs female domestic abuse rates to differ in about one order of magnitude.

Also, for every one tragic story about one man’s abuse I have about ten more from women.

It’s lopsided in both quantity and severity, don’t even.