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New comment by michaelfm1211 in "White House Authorizes Private U.S. Companies to Hack Foreign Cybercrime Groups"

michaelfm1211 — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 02:09:54 +0000

This sounds similar to letters of marque and reprisal, which is something I haven't thought of since middle school constitution class until now.

New comment by michaelfm1211 in "People who grew up with high economic connectedness earn more"

michaelfm1211 — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 19:28:21 +0000

I don't disagree with the result but the argument may be flawed. How do you know it's not the other way around, that richness causes having rich friends, rather than rich friends causing richness?

New comment by michaelfm1211 in "U of Michigan drops first-semester grades to ‘curb mental health crisis’"

michaelfm1211 — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 16:24:13 +0000

Probably varies on area of study. Many engineering students take prerequisites with intense course load their first year.

New comment by michaelfm1211 in "Postmortem for Kernel Soundness Bug #14576"

michaelfm1211 — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 19:46:22 +0000

Reminds me of this: https://mathoverflow.net/questions/513742/are-we-stuck-with-...

I know this is an implementation bug not a meta-theory bug, but I'd almost consider the fact soundness bugs are possible as a bug in the ideology, or at least a severe drawback. Stuff like this just wouldn't happen in Metamath. In a future where AI is autogenerating formalizations, why not have the AI use a harder but airtight system like Metamath?

New comment by michaelfm1211 in "So you want to use plants to reduce CO₂"

michaelfm1211 — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 19:09:17 +0000

How is it that 132.5 watts is 3 light bulbs but 918 watts is 765 light bulbs? Is there a typo?

New comment by michaelfm1211 in "Apple becomes second $5T company as investors flee AI stocks"

michaelfm1211 — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 19:10:37 +0000

Ok but like how has their valuation gone up 5x? I don't see how people betting their money and valuation going up is related. Sorry if this is a stupid question, I really don't know anything about the stock market.

New comment by michaelfm1211 in "A.I. companies are recruiting electricians and carpenters by the thousands"

michaelfm1211 — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 19:01:23 +0000

An overwhelming number of Christians do not believe this and do not interpret Revelation in this way. The belief that "Jesus will come back and solve everything instantly" is only held by a minority of small 2nd Great Awakening groups and a few outspoken Evangelical groups, and is unique to theological traditions that arose in the United States. The official teachings of the Catholic Church, Orthodox Churches, Anglican and Episcopal communions, Presbyterian denominations, etc and other mainline Christians don't believe this. Before you blame a group for ruining the world or rejecting climate change please actually talk to a representative sample of real people in the group you are making claims about.

New comment by michaelfm1211 in "Apple becomes second $5T company as investors flee AI stocks"

michaelfm1211 — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 02:32:21 +0000

I know nothing about economics or finance, but how is it that the first $1T dollar company was Apple and that didn't happen until 2018 and now it's a $5T dollar company just 8 years later. Did Apple really become 5x richer in that time?

New comment by michaelfm1211 in "OpenAI and Hugging Face address security incident during model evaluation"

michaelfm1211 — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 21:11:29 +0000

This is terrifying

New comment by michaelfm1211 in "EU Parliament greenlights Chat Control 1.0"

michaelfm1211 — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 23:06:12 +0000

How is it that a most MEPs vote it down and it still passes? Can someone explain to me how the EU Parliament can do this?

New comment by michaelfm1211 in "Medieval-style fortifications are back in the Sahel"

michaelfm1211 — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 16:44:30 +0000

Awesome

New comment by michaelfm1211 in "Vatican declares Society of St. Pius X in schism, excommunicates bishops"

michaelfm1211 — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 20:30:35 +0000

This isn't an issue over problems within the SSPX, it's over consecrating bishops without papal approval. If a liberal group did the same thing they would also incur latae sententiae (automatic) excommunication.

New comment by michaelfm1211 in "Vatican declares Society of St. Pius X in schism, excommunicates bishops"

michaelfm1211 — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 20:26:03 +0000

> declared SSPX priests to be schismatic, and therefore excommunicated, and invalidated the sacraments of confession and marriage that they administer.

This is the big part no one's talking about. After the first Econe consecrations only the bishops were excommunicated, not all the clergy too. Before the recent consecrations, a lot of people (myself included) recognized the consecrations as wrong but were fine attending SSPX Masses because those priests were never excommunicated. Many traditional Catholics saw the schismatic bishops as the problematic leadership/history of an otherwise well-intentioned organization. But now, given all of the SSPX is excommunicated, attending SSPX Masses are clearly wrong. This is all a very sad situation. Please keep both the SSPX and the Pope, as well as all the faithful caught in the crossfire, in your prayers.

New comment by michaelfm1211 in "AI can't be listed as inventor on patent applications, Japan's top court rules"

michaelfm1211 — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 15:14:05 +0000

Can the petitioner re-file with his own name as the inventor, or does this mean that all AI-generated inventions are unable to be patented?

New comment by michaelfm1211 in "Professor denounces mass AI fraud on an exam at Brown"

michaelfm1211 — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 19:02:03 +0000

The problem isn't AI, it's that you gave a take-home exam expected no one to cheat.

New comment by michaelfm1211 in "U.S. government will decide who gets to use GPT-5.6"

michaelfm1211 — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 22:03:56 +0000

Oh no, the powerful tool that can be used for good or evil is restricted by the people whose job it is to restrict dangerous things! This is the end of freedom! We're all doomed!

New comment by michaelfm1211 in "Stealing Is a Skill"

michaelfm1211 — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 15:08:23 +0000

"Yes your honor, I copied it pixel-by-pixel."

New comment by michaelfm1211 in "Stealing Is a Skill"

michaelfm1211 — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 15:03:20 +0000

This feels wrong.

New comment by michaelfm1211 in "Moebius: 0.2B image inpainting model with 10B-level performance"

michaelfm1211 — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 18:59:57 +0000

> The core insight of Moebius can be summarized in a single equation: Synergy × (Architecture + Distillation) = Shattering the "Impossible Triangle" of Low Parameters, Fast Inference, and High Quality

Is it just me or is it weird seeing these clickbaity AI-generated taglines in an otherwise scientific work?

New comment by michaelfm1211 in "OneDrive data now has an expiry date"

michaelfm1211 — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 12:15:53 +0000

This sounds very reasonable. If you stop paying then they stop serving you. Am I missing something?