12/06/2025 Saturday
Learned of Holy Post's long time guest (French Friday series), David French (American political commentator and former attorney), being an ex-PCA member. He left PCA because he was attacked by PCA elders and members for adopting a black Ethiopian girl and his New York Times critique of Donald Trump's character. I don't know him well enough, but I think I'm beginning to like this guy, because from what I read, his PCA enemies sounded more like Christian Nationalists. Wish we could connect. I think I first encounter French in the Holy Post episode on the 2025 Superman movie.
12/03/2025 Wednesday
I don't know how I pulled off between SPG and NYGC, I attended The Morgan Library's Roundtable Talk on Impressionism at 6pm and AAA's lecture on extrasolar comet 3i/Atlas at 8pm. The Morgan Library is situated about 3 minute walk from SPG where I work. And they are exhibiting Renoir's works from Oct 17 to next year Feb 8. I learned from one of their exhibit that Pierre-Auguste Renoir was caught on film. The footage is part of a 22-minute silent documentary film by Sacha Guitry titled Ceux de Chez Nous (Those of Our Land), filmed in 1915, rediscovered in Harvard in 2001:
12/01/2025 Monday
Some Chinese guy saw IP addresses as scarce resource and took a whole chunk of it out of Africa to lease to non-African organizations. Obviously, this made him unpopular as well.
This raises my alarm: AI (Aristotle) proved a conjecture: Erdos Problem #124. It's concerning not that AI will become self-aware, but proving conjectures is normally in the realm of creativity, not brute force logic. If it is by brute force logic, then we are talking about solving proofs, not solving conjectures (recollecting this as something some Indian retards at Drexel/UPenn's graduate level program couldn't distinguish - "oh we solves conjectures all the time in high schools back in India".) If a conjecture remains unsolved, that means either no many know about it (thus brute force would be possible here), or it requires immense creativity (human ingenuity) which is unlikely in AI's domain. But sometimes, creativity is just a matter of applying various not previously relevant fields together, so in that case, AI creativity may be sufficient. AI creativity is good, in that it pushes us better than just being clever.