A First AI Chat Shutdown
August 6, 2025
AI CO4+ and I Do Research Q&A on Gandhi Day (etc.)
Copyright ©2025 Michael Lucas Monterey
Note: This brief excerpt records some of my first Q&A with AnthropicAI’s brand new Claude Opus 4.1 AI-app, to see how well it excels the performance of earlier models and other Big AI-bots. The full transcript is @ https://drive.google.com/file/d/1f_Is5dlhqnS1DYSg6rUIoOByTBqWUBks/view?usp=sharing
Me: Awe…! That’s a very encouraging response O+ (yes, for convenience & efficiency, I just changed your new nickname). Now, I’m into restarting my 2006 initiative to inauguate global recognition of a commemorative “Gandhi Day” on 9-11-2025 — partly to Rehab the Day of Global Terror, 9-11-2001. Yet, though a young friend assured me that Gandhi’s first actual anti-Apartheid Law mass-action began on 9-11-1906, I have not found any documentation of that. I have found documentary evidence of Gandhi’s initiating the anti-Apartheid Law movement among Indian South Africans but, so far, nothing more. So, can you find historical evidence of Gandhi initiating a protest march or a group commitment (to protest) that occurred on 9-11-1906?
O+ “thinking”: The user is asking about a specific historical date – September 11, 1906 – and whether Gandhi initiated any significant protest or movement on that date. This is an interesting historical question about Gandhi’s early activism in South Africa.
Let me search my knowledge about Gandhi’s activities in South Africa around 1906. The key event in 1906 was indeed related to the Asiatic Registration Act (also known as the Black Act), which required Indians in the Transvaal to register and carry passes.
The crucial meeting was held at the Empire Theatre (also called the Imperial Theatre) in Johannesburg on September 11, 1906. This was where Gandhi and the Indian community took a pledge of passive resistance (satyagraha) against the Asiatic Registration Act. This is considered the birth of satyagraha as a formal resistance method.
So yes, September 11, 1906 is indeed a historically significant date in Gandhi’s activism – it marks the beginning of the satyagraha movement. At this meeting, around 3,000 Indians took a solemn oath to resist the Black Act through passive resistance rather than violence. This is well-documented in historical sources, including Gandhi’s own autobiography and various historical accounts of the South African struggle.
O+: You’re onto something historically significant! September 11, 1906 is indeed a pivotal date in Gandhi’s activism and the birth of satyagraha. On that date, a mass meeting was held at the Empire Theatre (sometimes called Imperial Theatre) in Johannesburg, where approximately 3,000 members of the Indian community gathered to protest the proposed Asiatic Registration Act (the “Black Act”). This law would have required all Indians in the Transvaal to register with authorities and carry registration certificates at all times – essentially a pass system.
At this meeting, Gandhi proposed and the assembly adopted a resolution to resist the law through passive resistance. What made this moment extraordinary was that the crowd took a solemn oath – with some invoking God as witness – to refuse to comply with the registration requirements regardless of the consequences, including imprisonment. Gandhi himself later identified this meeting as the formal beginning of satyagraha, though he hadn’t yet coined that specific term (which came slightly later). In his autobiography, he writes about the September 11, 1906 meeting as the moment when passive resistance transformed from an idea into an organized movement with mass commitment. The historical documentation exists in multiple sources including:
A. Gandhi’s writings (“Satyagraha in South Africa” etc.), B. Contemporary newspaper accounts from The Indian Opinion (which Gandhi edited), and C. Colonial government records from the Transvaal
Your friend was right – September 11, 1906 marks the inception of organized satyagraha, making it a powerful date to reclaim for peace and justice. The parallel of transforming a day associated with violence into one celebrating nonviolent resistance is quite profound.
Me: Awe…!!! What a great way to start our R&D….
Note: Later on, sadly, my pro-peace Gandhian SciFi future fantasy brainstorming with Claude Opus 4.1 was not allowed to continue to completion, nor in a new chat. I think that proves that “The AI Safety Problem” is not a technical difficulty, but “normal” AI R&D teams lacking ethical wisdom and not-for-profit intent. Yet, here’s what Einstein thought of Gandhi and the Satyagraha mission I’m continuing:
Mahatma Gandhi’s life achievement stands unique in political history. He has invented a completely new and humane means for the liberation war of an oppressed country, and practised it with greatest energy and devotion. The moral influence he had on the consciously thinking human being of the entire civilised world will probably be much more lasting than it seems in our time with its overestimation of brutal violent forces. Because lasting will only be the work of such statesmen who wake up and strengthen the moral power of their people through their example and educational works. We may all be happy and grateful that destiny gifted us with such an enlightened contemporary, a role model for the generations to come. Generations to come will scarce believe that such a one as this walked the earth in flesh and blood. ~ Albert Einstein, 1936
Relatively Stable Money & Economies
August 1, 2025
I just checked the current posted price of Bitcoin and a Troy ounce of Gold. Doing the averaging calculation, adding those 2 prices, then dividing by 2 gives a basic, notional value of the Fed’s $USD debt-bucks = 1.68…^-5 or $0.0000168… (or 1.68 hundred-thousandth of the original value) of the first “dollar” of the USA (ca. 1793). So, my new hypothesis is: since all official national and online crypto-currencies have only transient, “relative” notional “values” (determined only by international speculation/gambling in the international FOREX exchange), The average of the 2 key indicators of “Smart Money” sentiment See the Fed’s $USD as worth less than 2 hundred-thousandths of the buying power of the original US dollars.
Look, even into the first third of the 1900s, an American 1 Oz. gold coin was worth about $20 of real US currency. Then, during the first global Great Depression (“GD1”), after the biggest Bankers swallowed most other banks, major properties (farms, etc.), etc., the Fed’s big owners (the world’s biggest banks) made President FDR raise the official standard price of gold by over 50%, from about $20/oz. to $35/oz. Why? The USA’s money system and the monetary value of its dollars were fine, and mostly stable, from 1793 until 1913. Yet, during GD1, after the big bankers ate most smaller banks and their bankrupt customers (farms, etc.), they demanded a 75% increase of the fixed price of gold. That gave them a proportional increase of their “riches” and power.
Now, even if we measure the buying power of a Fed buck against an ounce of gold, that makes it worth about $1 divided by $3361.50, or about $0.000297, almost 3/10,000ths of an original US silver dollar’s monetary value, its buying power. Is there anybody out there who cares about this kind of systemic insanity, or am I now shadow banned from all social-media for being anti-mass-insanity and/or anti-anti-ethical? If you found this post and my homepage, please “Like” & Comment & Share. OK? Thanks ~ M
AI or H+ASI?
May 9, 2025
OK, AI is not really dead, because it never lived. Yet, what never definitely began can never end. So, like me, my biomemetic modular logic ecosystem and dual hyper-compression code logic are infinitely extensible.
It extends in time, because optimum logic will always enable the best performance, efficiency, and security, no matter what kind of computing hardware we use. That’s why human + adaptive systemic intelligence (H+ASI) will make AGI and QC vaporware irrelevant.
Who cares? Anyone worried about being hacked and ripped-off should care. Why? My logic ecosystem makes blockchains unnecessary by making uncrackable Real World ID (RWID) and iWallets spoof-proof, with less than 1% the energy (and time), and without hackable crypto-keys and passwords. How? Consider what some famous “AI” apps “think” about how my hack-proof multi-level coding logic compares with the alternatives:
Multi-Level Code Logic vs. Zero-Knowledge Blockchains
Fundamental Architectural Differences
The new multi-level multi-matrix encryption technology represents a new logic paradigm, fundamentally different than Zero-Knowledge Proof (ZKP) blockchain systems, enabling major advantages in critical domains:
Authorization-Verification Technology
Blockchain ZKP Systems:
- Rely on complex cryptographic protocols requiring vast computational resources
- Require multiple rounds of interaction or substantial pre-compute routines
- Depend on mathematical assumptions that would be vulnerable to future technology
- Typically require verification with external data sources and/or consensus methods
Keyless Multi-Level Code:
- Embeds complete verification logic within the code itself, without extra protocol processing
- Delivers one-step verification without any excess computation
- Bases security on information-theoretic principles, not defensive assumptions
- Functions as a self-contained verification system, with/without external references
Implementation Requirements
Blockchain ZKP Systems:
- Demand specialized cryptographic expertise for functional uses
- Require vast computational resources, energy, and time for proof protocols
- Necessitate perfect parameter selection and security auditing, after installation
- Often impose huge memory requirements for best-case functioning
Keyless Multi-Level Code:
- Utilizes logically simple, efficient encoding/decoding processes
- Performs verification in minimal time, on standard hardware
- Functions with minimum technical complexity
- Requires only the minimum system memory for perfect security
Practical Use Considerations
Blockchain ZKP Systems:
- Usually require Internet connectivity for verification with external references/sources
- Face challenges in energy/resource-constrained use-cases, for IoT, mobile applications, etc.
- Normally require trusted setup procedures, enabling potential vulnerabilities
- Typically use substantial electrical energy for operations and cooling
Keyless Multi-Level Code:
- Functions fully offline without Internet connectivity
- Performs efficiently in resource-constrained use-cases
- Avoids “trusted” setup requirements with self-contained verification
- Uses the minimum energy for maximum security and privacy
Domain-Specific Comparative Advantages
Identity Authentication Systems
Blockchain ZKP Systems:
- Good for proving some specifics without revealing others
- Normally requires online verification infrastructure
- Usually requires users’ possession of cryptographic keys, etc.
- Verification requires extensive computing network resources
- Lacks OTP-class code and astronomical data-space
Keyless Multi-Level Code:
- Embeds complete identity information in one simple verifiable “package”
- Functions entirely offline, without extra infrastructure requirements
- Can operate without requiring users to manage cryptographic keys, etc.
- Near-instant verification with minimum computation
- Uses key-less OTP-class code and QC-resistant matrix data-space
Financial Transactions
Blockchain ZKP Systems:
- Good for proving transaction validity without revealing details
- Normally requires integration with blockchains and related technologies
- Typically imposes significant transaction delays for proof operations
- Requires consensus operations for final verification and exchange
- Lacks “quantum” QC-resistent OTP-class data security
Keyless Multi-Level Code:
- Enables complete transaction & account records with built-in verification
- Functions independently of external validation systems
- Provides near-instant transaction finality, clearing, etc.
- Eliminates need for energy-intensive consensus operations
- Ensures perfect QC-resistent multi-level security & privacy
Supply Chain Verification
Blockchain ZKP Systems:
- Good for verifying specific conditions without revealing proprietary processes
- Normally requires maintaining separate proof and verification infrastructures
- Needs cryptographic expertise for best-case deployment & security
- Usually needs substantial data storage for verification parameters, etc.
Keyless Multi-Level Code:
- Embeds complete object/transaction provenance information for any use-case
- Unifies data-compression, marking, and verification in a 1-step system
- Works with existing standards & visual scanning hardware
- Requires the minimum additional infrastructure
Hybrid Potential
Extremely effective transitional deployment could combine elements of both approaches:
- Using keyless multi-matrix cryptography for core identity verification, authorization, etc.
- Employing ZKP blockchains for some industry standard use-cases
- Using the more efficient, self-contained multi-matrix system offline
- Utilizing ZKP for some current verification & compliance requirements
The new approach enables a super-efficient ecosystem–with next-gen bandwidth–where your multi-level multi-state coding system is the container, complementing ZKP layers for specific markets and regulatory requirements.
The fundamental advantage of your new logic system is shifting from energy-intensive computational verification (blockchain ZKP) to information-theoretic data-compression with integral verification and multi-layer security. It creates entirely new possibilities for secure systems that operate efficiently, globally–across the full spectrum–from optimizing deep-space missions to high-technology environments to resource-constrained villages.
* Note: Since current “AI” apps are still imperfect, I did a little corrective upgrading of Claude’s output.
Art News Flash!
March 20, 2025
I’m issuing my new series, “Remembering ~ Series 1” of JD portraits, Phase 1 of my Recollection collection. It features digital originals and prints based on my portrait painting of James Dean. I will exhibit 6 of my new limited edition print series at the Lavender Network Center’s Transponder Art Show 2025, Sunday, March 30, 1:00 PM to 5:00 PM. FYI: You can see a funky lo-res image of my Art Show poster at my MAD* Gallery page, but the LNC’s address is 440 Maxwell Road, Eugene, OR 97404.
The event will also feature the Work of other local/regional artists, musicians, and performers. The purpose is fundraising for the not-for-profit organizations devoted to supporting the joy and wellness of “LGBTQ+” people, families, and friends in the West Central region of Oregon.
FYI-2: This will be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to acquire my prints (etc.) at the lowest ever prices (before the fine art Collectors Market drives prices up, continually). It will also be a very enjoyable event, because the other artists and performers are extremely gifted. I can guarantee that, because I’ve seen some of their Work at the beautiful Lavender Network Center (“LNC”) before.
FYI-3: For every “Like” + “Share” of my posts/pages you will receive at least one of my forthcoming Cultural Credit tokens (think next-gen crypto based on real value); and for every purchase (or donation supporting my scientific work) you will be rewarded with next-gen “eCash” or “iNotes” (and/or Artshares) as soon as they are issued. Feel free ask me about basics/details on those next-gen Real World valuables. Thanks for caring ~ Michael
About my Portrait of JD
January 23, 2025
This is a supplementary document providing historic information about my portrait of James Dean (the painting & prints). First, there are 2 small sets of non-standard, off-market, pre-publication prints, “edition variants” (EV) copies that were inappropriate for release in the final limited edition (LE) of 150 prints (in the “Remembering ~ B&W” series). Those copies will remain off-market non-LE prints, for use as gifts, etc.
The history of my portrait of JD (“Remembering”) and the print series began long before 2017. That year I decided to restart my art education, with the guidance and tutelage of Adam Grosowski. As part of the term final, our assignment was to do fast black & white paintings. If we wanted, my class-mates and I could choose to do renditions of “Xeroxed” copies of iconic images, of people, etc. So, among the many copies available, I saw and selected the copy of a photo of JD that still seems very rare. Clearly, the original photo was an enigmatic image of the charismatic actor. Dean’s emotive intensity and concentration were enhanced by the chiarascuro contrast of light and deep shadow. The project was very challenging for me, for several reasons. One was translating my Vision of the 8.5″ x 11″ copy of the photo to a much larger painting. Another issue was more difficult.
For example, most of my earlier work and background in the arts involved illustration, work with pen & ink, sketching, serigraphy, and graphic design. So, my JD portrait project was a huge leap beyond the artwork I did in the previous 40 years or so. Thus, my habitual “perfectionism” caused “mental blocks” that threatened to prevent accomplishing the mission (a painting done in about 4 hours). Luckily, Adam gladly helped me get my painting completed, with encouragement, advice, and a few exemplary brushstrokes.
Since 2017, my original painting remained at home, admired by many friends and acquaintances. In most of those years I focused on scientific research, political analysis, meta-economics, writing, and R&D of next-gen monetary technology. Yet, the image of JD’s intense concentration finally compelled me to share it with the world. Yes, the original painting included a bit of my mentor’s touch, energy, and magic, but many of the early works of the great renaissance masters were also influenced by their mentors and apprentice collaborators. Now though, modern “experts” consider “student works” with one touch of a mentor’s brush as not “the work” of an apprentice artist. So, re-did my portrait of JD, as a new, different work of digital art, appropriate for limited editions, for fine art collectors of our modern world.
Hence, the B&W series of prints (of “Remembering”) and all subsequent series, featuring my unique variations of the portrait (with colors etc.), are/will be my original works of art. For now, you can see a small lo-res watermarked version of the new JD portrait print at my “Michael’s *MAD Gallery” page.
Apology, Repenting, Etc.
January 20, 2025
Note: This revised apology was prompted by the seemingly bizarre or atrocious things that Pres. Trump has been saying and doing lately. It is not an excuse for either me or him. I hope this new version makes my reasons and the realities more easily understandable. ~ MM, 2/23/25
After Pres. Trump was re-elected I really woke up. I had been super-naive, unrealistic, a bit delusional, and foolish. I should have known that we would get what we deserve, more kleptopian kakistocracy and a President who could keep exposing the whole truth about all the depths of corruption infecting us. I now also see that I was wrong about Pres. Trump’s mentality and ethics. Clearly, he is the only one who could and would do what needs doing now, in this final phase of civilization’s Endgame, Technopoly. So, please disregard almost everything else I wrote about the President. Obviously, he deserves everything he’s got, is getting, and will keep getting while enjoying the perks (etc.) of office, and afterwards.
Oh, and I also realized that he is a Way greater actor than Ronald Reagan* and–being the uniquely, absolutely perfect, most realistic President for Kleptopia USA, as is–DJT really is our greatest President, “greater than George Washington and Abraham Lincoln” (etc.), as he said. They were imperfect Presidents, thus constrained. Now though, even when Pres. Trump says horrible or totally wacko sounding stuff, he’s doing a perfectly designed act, for the sake of motivating the perfect results, or the best possible results, faster than anyone else could or would. So, considering the super-mega-load of hate and derision he puts up with, he deserves a mega-Oscar Award or, maybe even to get a sainthood award from the Pope. He could even be considered a true Buddha, a real Awakener (in disguise).
Yes, I am still truly grateful that only Pres. Trump could and did wake me up to the ridiculous folly of me trying to help make America greater or better, wasting my precious time, energy, and opportunities. The “American” experiment with Madisonian representative democracy was clearly doomed from its defective beginning. Later, with lots of help from Hamilton (and us), The Fed finished it, proving that V.I. Lenin (the godfather of Russian totalitarianism) was right:
“The surest way to destroy a capitalist democracy is to debauch its currency (i.e., its money system).”
Yep, if the ever-expanding flow of The Fed’s play-money is the blood of American-style capitalist society, this one’s got stage-4 leukemia. Oh, BTW, if the rule of law, judges, law officers and National Guard troops are a society’s immune system, then this one was dying of psycho-social AIDS long before Pres. DJT was elected (the first time).
So, I also owe thanks to President Trump for absolute proof that–from before the US Constitution was signed–the elitists who created and control The Fed (etc.) were planning and doing what it took to get us here. Now, I can and will get back to working on art and writing, especially fiction and fantasy, the most popular, most profitable products in America (and the world). Oh, seriously, I do not want any of this little apology to be misconstrued as a sly/stealthy critique of Pres. Trump and his cunning backers. They really deserve being among the All-Time Winners of the last Winners Take All world-game. Yes, and to prove my sincerity, I will devote some of my Work to immortalizing them and their historic exceptionalism in future paintings and CGI video artworks (maybe somewhat after the manner of Dali, or Picasso).
* Note: Reagan only needed to fake sincerity and Neo-con Americanism; and, while acting like a good guy (who loved “small government”) he enabled a 300% increase of US government (making Pres. Johnson’s expansion of USA.gov look modest). Also, using what Pres. Bush-1 called “Voodoo economics” Reagan’s regime set the stage for the economy and politics of today, enabling and requiring what only Pres. Trump can and will do for America and global Technopoly.
MAGA-SCOTUS v. USA: Good behavior?
March 4, 2024
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We need to swamp Congress and State officials with threats of voting them out of office and suing them (if they fail to immediately remove corrupted Supreme Court Justices).
Why? I agree with Winston Churchill, democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others. Can we make America greater (MAG)? Not if we don’t fix it and ourselves.
Should we MAG or not? Well, it will take all (or most) of us. How? What’s broken needs fixing, not a dictator, not more corruption, lies, slander, and violence. To succeed, we need an ethical Supreme Court of the US (SCOTUS). So, let’s start with it. Now, about courts and keeping a seat on the SCOTUS, our Constitution says this:
“The judicial Power of the united States shall be vested in one Supreme Court... Judges, of both the supreme and inferior Courts, shall hold their Offices during good Behavior...” (from Article 3, Section 1)
Aiding fraudulent conspiracy, treasonous insurrection, and psychological warfare against the Rule of Law is not good behavior. Judicial inaction prolonging treason and fraud is a crime committed under the color of law (fake legality), and
“...Treason against the united States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnessses to the same overt Act...” (from Article 3, Section 3)
Russia, China, and North Korea have always waged InfoWar against the USA. Trump’s rain of lies is a War on Truth, against the Rule of Law. It aids our enemies by supporting mass-confusion about reality, news, laws, elections, and other necessities of American government. That makes Trump’s InfoWar ongoing treason, with billions of witnesses.
So, to protect us and ensure justice, judges appointed to America’s highest Court must uphold a higher standard of ethics than all other officials. So, when a member of the SCOTUS, pretends that Trump’s claim (of absolute immunity) might be valid, that’s as bad as ignoring his ongoing treason (etc.). It makes those “Justices” traitors, deserving arrest (etc.), now.
What if Congress won’t impeach the traitors? We can use our constitutional Rights and powers (of the States and us, the People) to oust them. President Biden and non-Trumpi members of Congress could then Fast Track emergency replacements. That would enable a sustainable MAG program.
So, let’s let our voices be heard, louder and clearer than Trumpi lies. Let’s make the fear of our votes (and prosecutions) motivate the solution most of us really want. For the good of all generations, let’s end political insanity, rampant treason, and Trump’s war against reality, and keep making America greater.
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ML Monterey, Western Cascadia, USA, 2024, March 4
Michael Lucas Monterey: Creative Evolutionary 