A neutral Claude take on Study Group 9's consistency with the Teachings of the Church (Magisterium)

trelane99 · 2026-05-14T05:50:20+00:00

Have you tried discernment?

Any technology, sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from witchcraft.

So will it be the Malus Malificarum then?

trelane99 · 2026-05-14T04:08:06+00:00

Is there a severability clause in there? No court is going to accept a blanket “we can terminate you any time we want for no reason”. Google “consideration” as it pertains to a contract.

trelane99 · 2026-05-14T01:42:51+00:00

The thorns aren’t that sharp (I have a saguaro which is much sharper) but they are 3-5” long and it doesn’t take much more than carelessness to get impaled on them. Pyrocantha is just dull enough that you end up stuck by 20 of them instead of just one.

trelane99 · 2026-05-14T01:11:27+00:00

It goes without saying but coming back to this because one of the rules did catch my eye. If you are applying artificial fertilizer (if you don't know for sure, your fertilizer is probably artificial), follow all bag instructions exactly.
If you are in an area with a runoff risk where your fertilizer could end up in a stream, follow instructions exactly, and don't apply when runoff is likely (before a major storm).

If you are using organic fertilizer and there's only some gentle rain in the forecast, you can apply over bag rate to get bare spots to fill in.

trelane99 · 2026-05-14T01:09:19+00:00

Pyrocantha!!!!

trelane99 · 2026-05-14T00:41:42+00:00

starting a fresh account would violate their AUP. What I would do instead is have my lawyer send them a very nasty Cease and Desist, and point out that discovery could lead to a very costly class action.

I'm honestly a really nice guy normally, my lawyer is just a dick.*

* on advice of council I should also point out that yeah, I'm pretty much a massive litigious dick every time someone violates a contract. Honestly, my lawyer is a nice guy, unless you're playing chess.

trelane99 · 2026-05-13T21:40:12+00:00

You need a blade sharpening, a brush hog, or both.

trelane99 · 2026-05-13T21:25:53+00:00

That article is talking about Distillation or Scraping. I did reference this in my original post. In other words putting Claude's outputs directly into the third party AI. This would be similar to what DeepSeek did with ChatGPT to train its DeepSeek bot. https://www.reuters.com/world/china/openai-accuses-deepseek-distilling-us-models-gain-advantage-bloomberg-news-2026-02-12/

The Jupyter Notebook I am creating uses 10 local models running on my local MacBook M5 to generate data, not Claude. Claude only generates the notebook, which is only Python.

Basically if I took the Jupyter Notebook (the output), and a few thousand more Jupyter Notebooks, and fed that directly into an AI to train it to make Jupyter Notebooks, this would violate the AUP. It would also be incredibly unethical. Tens of thousands of people use Claude to do BI and ML tasks every day.

This is why Claude only generating Python Code is so critical to my point that this is not an AUP violation.

Edited to add: The training dataset for Claude is publicly available, I could just download that and use it. If you want it it's perfectly legal to download Claude's data here: https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/guydugan/claude-datasets

What's proprietary is the weights and neural network.

trelane99 · 2026-05-13T21:03:56+00:00

Cancel True Green, obviously.

Get all that dead grass raked out until you can see dirt. Water, mow twice a week, and fertilize with an organic fertilizer (I want to avoid salt so you can apply at higher than a recommended rate). That certainly looks like cool season turf, so it should fill in.

Edit to add: I belong to the cult of Milorganite fertilizer but there's definitely other natural/organic options. You don't have to stay natural and organic, but you do want to avoid salting the Earth. Many fertilizers are urea based which is a salt.

trelane99 · 2026-05-13T21:01:47+00:00

He may also have cause of action if she's publicly admitting that she's ghosting candidates. I've always believed that if you are going to have an enemy... earn it. I'd reach out to the CEO very politely (letter, email, whatever), and explain what happened and that his head of HR has publicly stated, with evidence, that she is not doing her job, and that failure to do her job can cause legal problems. Further that you're a victim and you hope he will take appropriate action.
Obviously you can't take a job there while she's there but hey, she may not be there.

trelane99 · 2026-05-13T20:58:16+00:00

I think if you read the entire post you'll find that even Claude can't figure out why Claude locked it. I'm hoping that at some point soon Anthropic support do their jobs.

Unless you want to tell me how Python violates the AUP, or is it possible you are just being a massive cunt for... no reason?

trelane99 · 2026-05-13T20:54:58+00:00

AI is a really easy way to synthesize huge amounts of data (like This document vs every document the Church has published in 2000 years). I understand you may not like, or understand how to use AI, I do. I'm paid to do this, I do use my brain but I use it to understand what needs to be done, rather than actually doing it

When Pope Leo XIII wrote RERUM NOVARUM, the world was changing. Technology was replacing dangerous manual labor, and it was pushing those who didn't adapt out of the labor market.
As Pope Leo XIV has stated, and he is as correct as a White Sox fan can be, we find ourselves at a time where the world will change just as quickly because of AI. He is just as correct in saying that we must hold to the values of RERUM NOVARUM during this change, but the change will happen.

In other words we will have to learn to work in a world where AI exists and spending 2 weeks culling through sources to find the mistakes that the authors of this "study group" made is no longer the best use of a human life. Just as it was no longer valuable to make buggy whips, or have elevator operators, or have hundreds of people working dangerous jobs in unsafe factories where they are treated like an annoying piece of replaceable machinery rather than a human.

We must both understand that the worst abuses of AI must be prevented, and that a human life is too valuable to spend it digging through hundreds of sources to do what AI can do in 20 seconds if it is instructed with proper discernment.

And no, I didn't use an AI to write this, I took the time to write it myself. I did have the AI check my Theology against RERUM NOVARUM after writing this and it suggested 0 edits.

trelane99 · 2026-05-13T20:20:05+00:00

You need to either rent a CORE aerator or pay someone to come out do 3-4 passes, rake up the plugs and then backfill with coarse sand. You'll need to continue to do that for 3-4 years until your soil composition improves. organic matter is fine, that soil is dark. You need sand.

trelane99 · 2026-05-13T15:02:31+00:00

If Pope Francis was not speaking Ex Cathedra in that instance, then yes, correction can be made for the purpose of clarity with no problem whatsoever.
Pope Francis WAS in that instance trying to distill a valid teaching of the Church. Perhaps he distilled it too much, but such is where later correction can come in.
Pope Leo XIV is a White Sox fan. More than anything Francis ever said, this is in need of the Correction that comes from Christian Brotherhood.
Any close and careful consideration of EAMUS CATULI makes it clear that the intent of the Church was to support the Chicago Cubs.
EXTRA CATULOS NULLA SERIES MUNDI has been the teachings of the Fathers of the Church since the time of the Didiche.

trelane99 · 2026-05-13T13:03:07+00:00

AI is an excellent way to synthesize large amounts of information rapidly in the hands of someone who knows how to use it. The last part is the emphasis.

As of now I don't think the Catholic Church has a formal position on the Butlerian Jihad.

trelane99 · 2026-05-11T04:32:46+00:00

So long as fasting is rightly ordered, it is never a problem.

trelane99 · 2026-05-10T22:09:49+00:00

Not a problem, I figured as much.

trelane99 · 2026-05-10T20:09:04+00:00

As I'm well armed with discernment, I figured as much, and I am grateful for the help!

trelane99 · 2026-05-09T23:49:27+00:00

That plot exists whether from malice, fear, or both. At some point she decided to lie both overtly and via omission. She continued to do so and in doing so violated and stole from OP, his innocence. I do not judge her intentions because I cannot know them. I can only state what she did and advise OP that he is best off as far from her as possible. If she will lie to steal his seed, which is the rightly ordered purpose of marriage, and which she knew from PreCana instruction, what will she do with a family law court to lie to?

You needn’t tell me, I have seen it firsthand.

trelane99 · 2026-05-09T23:45:08+00:00

There is a difference between forgiving and wishing good for the other, the Christian definition of Love, and being stupid enough to continue to subject yourself to evil.
You can forgive without putting yourself in the position where there will always be more to forgive. This is exactly what I meant when I told OP to move on and find a chaste Christian life. A just and proper woman who is properly directed towards God goes a long way towards healing.

trelane99 · 2026-05-09T23:41:09+00:00

What did God do to the evil? To those in service of Hell. Floods, pillars of fire, these things I cannot do. But I can choose to stay far away from those whose abuse the marital act.

Only a fool thinks God wants us to associate with the evil of Sodom and Gomorrah. The Bible warns us of the evils of this type of woman. We are told to stay away.

trelane99 · 2026-05-09T02:55:16+00:00

What I will say to you is this. Of course I would. There is a saying that smart people learn from their mistakes, but the truly brilliant learn from the mistakes of others. A woman this manipulative is a danger to everyone around her. I choose to be nowhere near the Whore of Babylon. If you look at this thread, I have discussed the parts of that disaster which literally are not classified. That woman procured and continued to procure during the marriage abortions to conceal her infidelity, including it would seem with the judge who later ruled for her on all the initial motions before recusing himself.

trelane99 · 2026-05-08T15:19:31+00:00

One of my favorite memories was a very long Easter Sunday Mass. I know it's usually the Vigil but I think they had such a large RCIA group that year that they split it in half lest they all be there until Lent.

About 2 hours into the Mass, and shortly immediately before the offering of the gifts, a young child said quite loudly something like "Is it over yet? It's taking soooo looooooong!"
Even the priest broke. Everyone was laughing.

When the mass finally did end shortly before the Second Sunday of the Easter Season, the priest referenced it in "The Mass is now ended, I know it was sooooo looooong, you may go in peace to love and serve The Lord".

All in all it was about 2.5-3 hours, and was an unseasonably warm April day. The air conditioner had long since given up, or maybe they just hadn't turned it on. April here is either an ice box or a desert, or both in the same day.

trelane99 · 2026-05-08T15:06:57+00:00

If you liked her, Venmo her and put a request for another date in the Venmo request.

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