King of the Elves!

 From President of Venezuela to King of the Elves! Next logical step as the Emperor's brain deteriorates. When do we arrive at Master of the Universe? In "memory care"? Already a raving lunatic. But the minions eat it up. They love that stuff. They have at last a deity created in their own image. Getting more and more pleasant here. It was not as cool this morning as yesterday and it will be warmer than it was yesterday, but chances of rain are slim to none. 

Warming Again!

 This could turn out to be the warmest and maybe driest winter Lubbock has ever recorded. That's OK with me. Except for the dry part. That's not good at all. 

Protests

 If the US had protests on the scale of those in Iran, ICE actions would produce a death toll in the tens of thousands in very short order. And the protests would amount to essentially the same thing: opposition to theocratic rule, opposition to dictatorship. The Iranians have a better chance of dumping their dictatorship than we would, taking to the streets to oppose the peculiar form of theocracy that has grown up in the last few years, the cult of the god emperor who can do no wrong. Crazy times we live in. 

 But you can't have crazy times without crazy people, and people who are not only crazy, but evil, evil to the very core of their being. 

Cold This Morning!

 But as arctic blasts go, this wasn't much. We've already been this cold, and it's about seasonal. 

Apart from normal chores, neither brain nor body will be exercised today. I just want to goof off. 

Another AI Example

In a different context I used an AI construct to evaluate an argument I made for unresolvable and inescapable incompatibility between the worlds of Quantum Mechanics and Classical Physics, in terms of a fundamental algebraic conflict. I used the idea of a Descriptor Space to make the argument as general as possible. The AI evaluation was as follows:

The problem, as sketched, is a fundamental conceptual and mathematical difficulty at the heart of unifying quantum mechanics and general relativity. The "problem" you are illustrating is a core challenge related to the nature of the mathematical operation (the "path" or "mapping") required to bridge the gap between classical and quantum descriptions of reality: Classical mechanics is described by commutative algebras (e.g., the position and momentum of a particle can be measured simultaneously and their order doesn't matter: \(x\cdot p=p\cdot x\)).Quantum mechanics is described by non-commutative algebras (e.g., in quantum mechanics, position and momentum operators do not commute: \(xp\ne px\), which is the essence of the uncertainty principle). Explanation: The "problem" is a genuine conceptual conundrum in theoretical physics: The proposed path or mapping operation must transform a system from a non-commutative algebra description to a commutative one (or vice versa, depending on the direction of the "path").This mapping itself, if it is to consistently describe the transition between these two realms within a single overarching framework, would exist in a "Descriptor Space" that seems to inherently encompass both. The essential issue is that the nature of the operation defines the structure of the space it operates within. If the operation is part of the non-commutative quantum realm, it cannot smoothly transition to the commutative classical realm without encountering a profound mathematical or physical breakdown (a singularity or a point of non-definition). The reverse is also true. The problem, as you put it, is that we are asking a single, consistent algebraic operation to inherently possess both a commutative and a non-commutative nature simultaneously, or to bridge that fundamental difference in a consistent, non-arbitrary way. This highlights the deep mathematical incompatibility between the smooth, continuous functions of general relativity and the discontinuous, quantized nature of quantum mechanics, which is a major reason why quantum gravity is so difficult to formulate.