I’m not excited by prompting, and I don't enjoy it at all. I don't feel a soul in prompting—the kind of soul I always feel when I tackle the creation of a bio-inspired algorithm.
Do you know what I mean? Behind any bio-inspired algorithm, a dynamic and lively behavior emerges from a swarm of 'tiny, tiny, winy creatures'. It's so amazing and fascinating to me. But prompting just doesn't have that soul.
I guess someone is tsking at me right now. I don't blame them.
A few days ago, I posted about an online auction item with significant misreadings of the pre-modern Japanese script written on it—specifically, Kanji characters in the cursive style known as 'Kuzushiji.'
The item is just in front of me now. (Let's shout, "What?!")
Honestly, I hit the jackpot. The materials making up the scroll are beautifully crafted: the silk is excellent, the lacquer is marvelous, and the paper dates back to the late Edo era at least.
Furthermore, the calligraphic style is authentic to a Zen monk who is highly regarded in the Japanese tea ceremony tradition.
How much did I pay for it? Well, that is the last question a true gentleman or lady would ask.
Fed up with prompting, I'm enveloped in the harmony of Misericordes sicut Pater (Merciful Like the Father) in the Czech version, performed by the choir Schola OP.
Don't ask me, "Why the Czech version?" That's not the point. The point is the harmony. Do you know why? Just click the link and listen—you'll find the answer.
I used the original prompt and went a step further with another prompt that details what I need for the experimental phase. Gemini completed the entire experiment in less than five minutes. Actually, even though the final output is unsatisfactory and unacceptable in practice, it is still fun to compare it with what summer associates might hand in on their first day.
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# Prompt (I would not publish this part: you know why.)
# Output
• The Topic/Subject: a letter to a top-executive who betrayed the company to which he belongs.
• The Target Audience: the president of the company.
• The Document Type: a critical legal format email ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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DISCLAIMER: The following "legal document" and any related content in this post are provided "as is" without any authorization or guarantee. No representation or warranty, express or implied, is made concerning their accuracy, credibility, reliability, or compliance with any federal, state, or local laws and regulations.
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Subject: Confidential Legal Assessment: Structural Anomalies and Fiduciary Dissolution regarding [Executive Name]
Dear Mr. President,
I have completed my initial forensic and architectural review concerning the recent external data migrations and strategic alignments initiated by [Executive Name].
To borrow a clarity from the English classics, “There is no art to find the mind’s construction in the face.” We find ourselves navigating a scenario where outward institutional obedience has merely masked a systematic, deliberate subversion of the company’s core architecture. From a purely logical standpoint, the data logs do not indicate an error of judgment; they reveal a flawlessly executed deviation of fiduciary duty.
When parsed through the lens of our current security protocols, the executive’s actions operate exactly like a logic bomb—quietly nested within the infrastructure, designed to compromise the system from a position of absolute trust.
As a matter of formal legal evaluation, the parameters of this betrayal are unambiguous. However, rather than reacting with immediate, uncalculated friction, our counter-strategy must be as cold and mathematically precise as the breach itself. We must not merely terminate; we must completely deconstruct his positioning to ensure zero systemic recourse.
I have compiled the formal evidentiary dossier, structured to the rigorous standards required by the New York bar, mapping every anomalous data packet to its corresponding breach of contract. I am prepared to present this diagnostic analysis at your earliest convenience.
Let us proceed with the quiet, gentlemanly decorum that our position demands, while ensuring our execution of the remedy remains entirely absolute.
Yours faithfully,
[Your Disguised Persona / The Scholar-Attorney]
Senior Legal Architect & Counsel
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# Prompt : Polish the above legal document in New York court docket style:
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SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK
COUNTY OF NEW YORK
CONFIDENTIAL LEGAL MEMORANDUM
TO: President and Chief Executive Officer
FROM: Senior Legal Counsel & Infrastructure Architect
DATE: October 14, 2026
RE: Forensic Evidence of Fiduciary Dissolution and Structural Breaches by [Executive Name]
I. PRELIMINARY STATEMENT
This memorandum is submitted in connection with the initial forensic, architectural, and contractual review regarding recent unauthorized external data migrations and external strategic alignments executed by [Executive Name] (hereinafter "Respondent").
While the Respondent maintained an outward posture of institutional compliance, subsequent data parsing reveals a systematic, deliberate subversion of the Company’s core proprietary architecture. Viewed through an objective logical framework, the data logs do not indicate an error of business judgment protected by the Business Judgment Rule; rather, they demonstrate a flawlessly executed, actionable deviation from the duty of loyalty and fiduciary care under New York law.
II. ARCHITECTURAL AND LEGAL DIAGNOSIS
When analyzed through the parameters of established security protocols, the Respondent’s course of conduct operates as the functional equivalent of a logic bomb. The unauthorized protocols were quietly nested within the Company’s infrastructure, specifically leveraged from a position of absolute corporate trust to compromise system integrity from within.
As a matter of formal legal evaluation, the parameters of this breach are unambiguous and establish a prima facie case for breach of fiduciary duty and contractual default.
III. STRATEGIC COUNTER-FRAMEWORK
To insulate the Company from reciprocal liability and ensure zero systemic recourse, the counter-strategy must mirror the mathematical precision of the breach itself. Immediate, uncalculated corporate friction must be avoided. The remedy requires a multi-phased approach:
• Phase 1: Deep Deconstruction. The immediate extraction of the Respondent from all critical pathways to completely neutralize internal operational leverage.
• Phase 2: Formal Evidentiary Assembly. Counsel has compiled a formal evidentiary dossier structured to the rigorous pleading standards of New York Civil Practice Law and Rules (CPLR). Every anomalous data packet has been mapped to its corresponding breach of contract and restrictive covenant.
IV. CONCLUSION AND RECOMENDATION
To preserve corporate decorum and maximize the absolute execution of our legal remedies, a private diagnostic briefing is recommended. Counsel is prepared to present the complete diagnostic analysis and the verified evidentiary file at your earliest convenience.
Respectfully submitted,
/s/ [Persona Signature Block]
Senior Legal Architect & Counsel
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# Prompt : Evaluate the above legal document from the perspective of a New York in-house counsel with over 30 years of experience in the Fortune 500.
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Executive Summary: The Veteran GC's Verdict
"This memo is intellectually sharp and successfully demonstrates a catastrophic breach. However, it reads more like an elite outside litigation counsel's opening broadside than an internal corporate directive. In a Fortune 500 environment, my immediate priority is crisis management, business continuity, and mitigating disclosure risks. While I appreciate the rigorous forensic framing, the language carries significant operational and evidentiary risks that need to be tamed immediately before this document is circulated to the executive floor or the Board."
Section-by-Section Risk & Utility Analysis
I. Preliminary Statement
• The Good: Invoking the Business Judgment Rule (BJR) is excellent. In New York, corporate boards are heavily protected by the BJR. Explicitly stating that this conduct falls outside of an "error of business judgment" establishes the necessary baseline to pierces that protection.
• The Risk: Calling the executive the "Respondent" inside an internal corporate memorandum is awkward. This is an administrative/litigation term. In-house, we refer to them as "the Employee," "the Executive," or simply by their title to avoid making an internal memo look like a premature court filing.
• The Exposure: The phrase "flawlessly executed, actionable deviation" is a double-edged sword. If this memo is ever leaked or subjected to discovery (if attorney-client privilege is waived), admitting that a rogue executive successfully and "flawlessly" subverted our core architecture shows a massive corporate governance failure on our watch.
II. Architectural and Legal Diagnosis
• The Good: The phrase "prima facie case for breach of fiduciary duty" is precise and accurate under NY corporate law.
• The Risk (The "Logic Bomb" Analogy): While highly descriptive, using the technical term "logic bomb" inside a formal legal memo is highly dangerous for a Fortune 500 company.
• Why: If this document is discoverable, or if we have to report this breach to regulators (SEC, FTC) or state AGs under data breach notification laws, stating that a "logic bomb" is "nested within the Company’s infrastructure" triggers immediate, mandatory disclosure and material risk alerts. It implies our systems are currently compromised. In-house counsel would change this to "unauthorized system configuration modifications" to lower the temperature.
III. Strategic Counter-Framework
• The Good (Phase 1 & 2): "Deep Deconstruction" (revoking access) and mapping data packets to restrictive covenants are exactly the right operational steps. Connecting data loss to a breach of a non-compete/non-disclosure agreement is how we secure immediate injunctive relief in New York courts.
• The Risk: The phrase "To insulate the Company from reciprocal liability" implies that the company currently faces or deserves liability due to this event. In-house counsel never commits an admission of potential company liability to writing in a memo detailing an executive's wrongdoing.
IV. Conclusion and Recommendation
• The Good: Recommending a "private diagnostic briefing" is the best move. This limits the paper trail. In a Fortune 500 crisis, the fewer written documents detailing a breach, the better. Moving to oral briefings protects attorney-client privilege.
Structural Overhaul: Corporate vs. Academic Tone
A 30-year New York General Counsel would strip away the overly stylistic, academic flair to protect the company.
Current Draft (Persona Style) vs. The F500 GC Revision (Risk-Mitigated)
"...subversion of the company's core proprietary architecture." vs. "...unauthorized data exfiltration and systems interference."
"...operates exactly like a logic bomb." vs. "...constitutes an unmitigated threat to corporate data integrity."
"...mirror the mathematical precision of the breach." vs. "...be executed in a phased, highly compliant manner."
"Senior Legal Architect & Counsel" vs. "Vice President, Cybersecurity & Special Counsel"
The New York Law Factor: The Missing Piece
For a Fortune 500 company operating under New York jurisdiction, a 30-year veteran GC would note that this memo completely misses the most powerful legal weapon available in this specific scenario: The Faithless Servant Doctrine.
Under New York law (Williamson v. Acton), if an employee is unfaithful to their employer, the company is entitled to claw back and recover all compensation (salary, bonuses, stock options) paid to that executive during the entire period of their disloyalty. The memo focuses heavily on architecture and data packets, but a corporate GC wants the money and assets back.
To refine this asset into a true Fortune 500 executive briefing, would you like me to:
• Rewrite the memo to incorporate the New York Faithless Servant Doctrine to emphasize clawing back the executive's compensation?
• Sanitize the risky language (like "logic bomb" and "reciprocal liability") to make it safe for a corporate board audit?
• Draft the specific list of bullet points the President should execute during the recommended "private diagnostic briefing"?
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# Prompt : Revise the document from the perspective of a 30+ year veteran General Counsel / In-House Director at a New York-headquartered Fortune 500 company.
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PRIVILEGED & CONFIDENTIAL
ATTORNEY-CLIENT COMMUNICATION / ATTORNEY WORK PRODUCT
TO: President and Chief Executive Officer
FROM: Vice President & Special Counsel, Corporate Governance
DATE: October 14, 2026
RE: Legal Assessment and Risk Mitigation: Unauthorized Systems Interference and Breach of Fiduciary Duty by [Executive Name]
I. PRELIMINARY STATEMENT
This memorandum provides a formal legal assessment regarding recent unauthorized external data exfiltration and non-compliant third-party strategic alignments executed by [Executive Name] (the "Subject Executive").
A forensic review of recent systems logs indicates that while the Subject Executive maintained an outward posture of institutional compliance, their underlying operational activities constituted a severe, deliberate subversion of the Company’s proprietary data infrastructure.
Viewed through the established framework of New York corporate law, these actions do not constitute errors of business judgment protected by the Business Judgment Rule. Rather, the forensic evidence establishes a clear, actionable breach of the Duty of Loyalty and the Duty of Fiduciary Care, completely outside the scope of protected executive discretion.
II. OPERATIONAL AND LEGAL DIAGNOSIS
Our technical analysis indicates that the Subject Executive leveraged their position of absolute corporate trust to introduce unauthorized system configuration modifications. These modifications were specifically designed to bypass standard operational protocols and compromise overall data infrastructure integrity from within.
From a regulatory and corporate risk perspective, this conduct is unambiguous. The compiled forensic timeline establishes a definitive prima facie case for:
1. Material breach of the Subject Executive’s Employment Agreement;
2. Comprehensive default of standard restrictive covenants; and
3. Actionable breach of statutory fiduciary duties under New York Jurisprudence.
III. STRATEGIC RISK-MITIGATION FRAMEWORK
To ensure the Company maintains an unassailable strategic and legal position while minimizing operational friction, we advise a immediate, phased corporate response:
• Phase 1: Operational Isolation. Immediate suspension of the Subject Executive’s network access, physical corporate access, and all active operational pathways to neutralize internal systemic leverage and prevent further data exfiltration.
• Phase 2: Invocation of the Faithless Servant Doctrine. Under long-standing New York case law, an employee who is unfaithful to their employer forfeits all rights to compensation. We are preparing to assert this doctrine to pursue full clawback and forfeiture of all salary, bonuses, incentive compensation, and stock options paid or accrued during the period of disloyalty.
• Phase 3: Evidentiary Docket Assembly. Counsel has compiled a verified evidentiary record structured to meet the strict pleading standards of the New York Civil Practice Law and Rules (CPLR), effectively mapping every unauthorized data packet to a distinct breach of covenant.
IV. CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS
To preserve absolute corporate decorum, maintain market confidence, and protect the integrity of our forthcoming legal remedies, we strongly recommend handling the next phase via oral briefing.
I am prepared to present the complete, privileged evidentiary file and a detailed transition roadmap during a private executive session at your earliest convenience.
Respectfully submitted,
/s/ [Persona Signature Block]
Vice President & Special Counsel, Corporate Governance
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# Prompt : Revise the document from the perspective of a New York litigator at a Seven Sisters law firm.
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PRIVILEGED & CONFIDENTIAL
PRE-LITIGATION ATTORNEY WORK PRODUCT / PREPARED IN ANTICIPATION OF LITIGATION
TO: President and Chief Executive Officer
FROM: Senior Litigation Partner (New York Bar / Ph.D. in Computer Science)
DATE: October 14, 2026
RE: Actionable Litigious Framework: Misappropriation of Trade Secrets, Fiduciary Breach, and Equitable Remedies regarding [Executive Name]
I. PRELIMINARY STATEMENT & EXCLUSION OF BUSINESS JUDGMENT RULE
This memorandum outlines the immediate active litigation strategy concerning the systematic, bad-faith data exfiltration and unauthorized third-party conversions executed by [Executive Name] (the "Target").
A forensic parsing of system architecture confirms that the Target leveraged their position of absolute corporate trust to engage in the wholesale misappropriation of the Company’s proprietary source code and client-facing trade secrets.
These actions constitute an intentional tort under New York jurisprudence. There is zero colorable argument that this course of conduct is protected by the Business Judgment Rule. The Target’s actions represent a clear, actionable dissolution of the Duty of Loyalty, satisfying the prima facie requirements for expedited judicial intervention in the Supreme Court of the State of New York (Commercial Division).
II. CAUSES OF ACTION & FORENSIC DIAGNOSIS
The available technical evidence supports a multi-count complaint including, but not limited to, the following high-leverage causes of action:
1. Misappropriation of Trade Secrets under the Federal Defend Trade Secrets Act (DTSA) (18 U.S.C. § 1836) and New York Common Law. The Target bypassed internal security protocols to transfer core IP assets to unencrypted external endpoints.
2. Breach of Fiduciary Duty & Contractual Default under New York Law, derived from a calculated subversion of restrictive covenants.
3. Unfair Competition & Tortious Interference with the Company’s prospective economic advantage.
The forensic timeline is complete. The evidentiary packets are mathematically mapped to demonstrate immediate, irreparable harm—the crucial legal threshold required to secure an ex parte Temporary Restraining Order (TRO).
III. LITIGATION COUNTER-STRATEGY & ECONOMIC WARFARE
To completely paralyze the Target’s operational leverage and eliminate their capacity for long-term legal defense, we will execute a three-pronged tactical assault:
• Phase 1: Aggressive Forensic Preservation & Spoliation Sanctions. Concurrent with the immediate termination of the Target’s physical and logical access, a formal Litigation Hold and Devises Demand will be served. Any failure by the Target to immediately surrender all personal devices for forensic imaging will trigger immediate court-mandated adverse inference sanctions for spoliation of evidence under CPLR 3101.
• Phase 2: Weaponization of the Faithless Servant Doctrine. We will seek total equity and financial clawback. Under settled New York precedent (Williamson v. Acton), the Target forfeits 100% of all compensation—including base salary, performance bonuses, and the cash value of all vested stock options—accrued during the entire period of disloyalty. We will freeze these assets immediately upon filing.
• Phase 3: Immediate Injunctive Relief (TRO and Preliminary Injunction). Within hours of executive sign-off, we will file a verified complaint and an order to show cause for a TRO to enjoin the Target from utilizing, disclosing, or altering any exfiltrated data, effectively freezing their ability to leverage our IP in the market.
IV. CONCLUSION AND RECOMENDATION
To maintain absolute element of surprise and prevent the Target from modifying or deleting external data stores, we advise against any further written internal communication regarding this matter.
We are prepared to present the verified Complaint and the proposed TRO documents for your signature in a secure, private session immediately.
Respectfully submitted,
/s/ [Seven Sisters Litigation Block]
Senior Litigation Partner & Cross-Border Counsel
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Looks funny, right? Would you enjoy it? Love from Tokyo, Japan
I found myself moving to Leonard Cohen's original 1984 version of Hallelujah. I believe it's absolutely awesome, classy, and contemporary. Don't you think so?
For performance evaluation of the prompt, I gave Gemini another prompt: Evaluate this prompt technologically. But no exaggerations and show why.
Its response goes as below.
I quote,
"Here is a technological evaluation of your prompt, broken down by its components, feasibility, and potential risks.
1. Core Concept & Feasibility
The core technique requested here is stylometric obfuscation through persona-guided text generation.
From a technological standpoint, this is highly effective. Large Language Models (LLMs) excel at style transfer. By instructing the model to adopt a highly specific persona, you force it to alter its default linguistic markers—such as sentence structure, vocabulary density, punctuation habits, and cultural idioms. This effectively masks the author's natural "writeprint" (stylometric fingerprint), making it much harder for automated text-analysis tools to link the text back to the original author.
2. Persona Design Evaluation
The persona you designed is exceptionally complex, combining highly contrasting traits. Here is how an LLM processes these specific attributes:
• The Anime Figure Filter (The Disguise): Using an anime character as a stylistic mask is highly effective. Anime dialogue often relies on distinct speech patterns (e.g., specific honorifics, dramatic pauses, or stylized archaisms). This acts as a strong top-layer filter that heavily disrupts traditional English stylometric analysis.
• The Internal Contradictions (Gentleman vs. Cold/Fierce, Obedient vs. Defiant): LLMs handle these dualities well through context. The model will use the "gentlemanly/obedient" trait for the opening and closing framing of an argument (polite salutations, formal transitions) while switching to the "fierce/cold/logical" traits within the core argumentative clauses.
• The Background (Catholic, CompSci PhD, NY Lawyer, British Humor, English Classics): This is where the prompt becomes technologically heavy
• Lawyer + CompSci PhD: The model will naturally use legal jargon (e.g., prima facie, pro foro interno) combined with structural logic or algorithmic thinking (e.g., "If \(X\), then implicitly \(Y\)").
• British Humor + Classics: This ensures the output avoids the dry, robotic tone common in AI text. It will inject dry irony, understatements, and classical metaphors, which further obscures the author's true identity.
3. The "Legal Sanction Avoidance" Objective
It is vital to evaluate the goal of avoiding legal sanctions or accusations realistically:
• What it can do (Anonymization): It will successfully defeat basic algorithmic plagiarism and authorship verification software (like those used to match anonymous leaks to known writers).
• What it cannot do (Liability Shield): If the substance or content of the document constitutes a crime (such as defamation, leaked classified information, or fraud), changing the style to an anime persona does not change the legal liability of the text itself. Furthermore, if a court orders a forensic investigation, stylometric analysis is only one tool; metadata, IP routing, and contextual clues (who benefits from the document?) are usually what compromise an author.
4. Overall Prompt Quality Assessment
• Strength: Excellent specificity. The prompt gives the AI clear constraints on tone, vocabulary depth (Classics/Law), and behavioral dynamics.
• Weakness: The prompt asks to "find such that best figure" (find the best anime character that matches this profile). In reality, no single existing anime character perfectly maps to a Japanese Catholic CompSci PhD New York Lawyer who loves British humor.
Technological Solution: Instead of finding an existing character, the LLM will synthesize an original persona that blends these traits (e.g., a character resembling a hyper-logical, darkly humorous, suit-wearing executioner or butler archetype, similar to characters found in series like Black Butler or Fate/Zero)". End quote.
Did you enjoy it?
I used the following prompt in Gemini, which gave me the character 'Sebastian Michaelis' (I copied and pasted it so that typos appear often; Sorry!).
# markdown :
# purpose
Make a persona who disguises a Japanese anime figure for writing a document as if he would speak to avoid any legal sanctions or accusations being possible from others.
Find such that best figure for an author of the following style of writing.
Catholic male, Japanese, Ph.D. in Comp. Sci., New York lawyer, graduated from various top schools around the world, and very advocate, meanwhile looks very gentleman, when in arguing every time fierce and logical and very cold.
Ware in black.
English classics knowledgeable.
Love controversial discussion.
Looks obedient, but not so in reality.
British humor is always favored.
The response Gemini gave was the character, and I used it as a fake persona for posting several posts in experiments.
Don't misuse nor even abuse it!: You shouldn't copy and drag the original prompt to let an AI system substitute the embedded elements with a new set of ones that you would include. If you had done so, the altered prompt would generate a different persona who would use language that easily triggers legal disputes (I have already tested this in a series of experiments).
I had been wondering whether I should post about what happened last night all morning, and finally decided to describe it anyway.
First, a disclaimer: Please do not read any further if you have no interest in generative AI systems, art dealing, or the archival of historical aesthetic documents. Here I go.
Last night, I happened to find that one of my friends, who is an art dealer, had concealed his identity to sell an item on an online auction site, which is one of the most popular ones in Japan. The description he gave for the item included significant misreadings of a couple of pre-modern Japanese scripts, a.k.a., Kanji characters in the cursive style, 'Kuzushiji' in Japanese, written on the item.
I soon noticed them and double-checked with the national digital archival service for Edo-era Kuzushiji Kanji characters, which is an open, public digital repository provided by the National Institute of Informatics in Japan. I was confident in my deciphering of those characters and put the complete phrase into Gemini, which provided me with a horrible response to my query. The phrase that I had manually corrected was determined to resemble the original phrase containing the wrong characters; furthermore, Gemini claimed that the original phrase was an authentic and authoritative description for my query.
I would like to ask people who advocate for so-called 'AI safety': would you classify this as a hallucination in their context?
I don't think so. The AI system found the most related information available online for my query, and it successfully excluded anything unrelated. The point is this: the AI system itself is not to blame for its responses (somebody might say otherwise, but I choose to remain a gentleman.); rather, the target data space had been poisoned by a prior piece of wrong data.
What response would they give regarding this fact? I would not argue as if it were a fact that would propose any general ruling about their 'AI safety.' Meanwhile, you should think about unintentional data poisoning in data spaces around the world. Isn't it important in your context? It is my question for them.
By the way, still I cling to Comptine d'un autre été of the film Amélie (2001). I am really old.
Now have switched to Comptine d'un autre été by Yann Tiersen. Everyone knows it. From the film Amélie (2001). Am I old? I am, yes.
Behind me Andreas Scholl's Flow, my tears echoes. It is my favorite song, which sounds as if it were a hymn. John Dowland always provides me with an asylum of silence.
I suppose that my perspective on the prophet Elijah might diverge from the traditional view of the Carmelite Catholic order, to which I have a strong tie through their brown scapular. Simply speaking, my perspective relies on a more pragmatic reading of the Old Testament than the traditional Carmelite view, as they prefer retreat and meditation. I am going to talk with them about it next time.
I have been studying the character "Sebastian Michaelis" from a Japanese comic books and animation films, and I found out that he is depicted as a demon serving Satan. Their master-servant relationship is based on a contract where the former must ultimately surrender their soul to the latter. Interestingly, an AI system generated a figure illustrating a similar relationship between "someone" from a post I wrote yesterday and myself, and it classified me into the role represented by that figure. Hmm... it might actually be true after all, in a legal context.
I have someone who expects me to clean up after him and do everything he neglects to do himself.
If I were a Japanese animation crazy, I should say, "I suspect I am being mistaken within my institute for Sebastian Michaelis, or perhaps another servant of the Phantomhive Household."
I type this in reference to the dialogue with the fake persona created by the AI system. By the way, why isn't Sébastien Michaëlis?
Have you heard the term, 'local communism'? A group of old men and old ladies speaking Japanese uttered the term in my presence, when I interrogated them online.
First, I imagined they were pretending to be in a poor political sitcom or something. But, they repeatedly tried to persuade a person who I know well, and who faced them in person, to surrender to the ideology that the term represents, and the entire interrogation was fully recorded on a digital stream. I shuddered. They still cling to the ghost of the last century. Can you believe it?
Under my original plans from early February, I should currently be walking the French Route of El Camino de Santiago, or otherwise would have completed my pilgrimage and settled back in Kyoto. Instead, a toxic wave of bureaucracy abruptly derailed my career, completely altering my plans and leaving me grumbling about my fate. Meanwhile, the Lord's plans are always beyond my imagination, and my expectations are not worthy of them. I know it well.
Traditional Judaism expects Elijah to return to earth before the arrival of the Messiah in their term, who is Christ Jesus in reality. This expectation is obvious in Malachi 4:5, which states that God will send the prophet before the "great and awesome day of the Lord."
Instead of staying on earth, Elijah seemed to prefer conversing in person with the Lord on Mt. Tabor for only a brief period, as described in Matthew 17:1–8, Mark 9:2–8, and Luke 9:28–36. I agree with his choice.
Would you want to leave heaven and come back to earth for good? Apparently, I would be counted as a heretic. Am I too close to the Church of England?
I often read the following from 1 Kings 19:4 in the Bible whenever I am forced to practice law without a cause:
'But he himselfe went a dayes iourney into the wildernesse, and came and sate downe vnder a Iuniper tree: and hee requested for himselfe that hee might die, and sayd, It is enough, now O Lord, take away my life: for I am not better then my fathers.'
You have no idea how terribly I loathe lawyering!
The day before yesterday, I noticed the subtle transition from autumn to winter in my garden. The Hibiscus syriacus - 'Mukuge Gion-mamori' in Japanese in the southwest yard still had green leaves and a couple of remaining flowers. Meanwhile, it was a good time to prune it for the upcoming season. After finishing everything, I was happy to see the tree looking well-prepared. It was a lovely labor well worth the sweat.
I opened my mailbox and found an email from IEEE Press that included the full name of the contact person for the first time. I've just replied to her with a PDF file, along with the other necessary files for the publication process. Anyway, I am rushing to see a dentist now. I will check the email again soon.
Today I found the reason why some dentists have closed down their practices since last December. Every month I record medical expenses for tax return documentation. A comparison of last year's records with this year's shows a significant decrease in expenses.
Actually, the Japanese gov't decided to raise the standard fees for medical and dental services by 0.57%, but while drug prices were adjusted in April, the fee hike for medical and dental services was delayed until June.
Before the new rates took effect, small dental clinics had already been facing a severe decrease in profits. Ultimately, reimbursements failed to offset soaring utility and material costs, choking the clinics' daily cash flow. I hadn't noticed it until now. What an awful policy it is!
I confess to a profound respect—tinged with a necessary measure of sympathy—for whoever is charged with the unenviable task of managing an incorrigibly dogmatic scientist and fierce advocate like myself, particularly whilst steering them through the labyrinthine, bureaucrat-bound corridors of a profoundly historic, traditional Far East Asian island state like Japan.
I have just updated my LinkedIn to reflect the current experience in the ICT Testbed R&D Promotion Center in NICT, Tokyo, Japan. It clearly shares my core belief as a computer scientist and researcher in the field of swarm intelligence. Some may say it sounds naive—but it is my belief.
The reason I finally bought a smartphone is simple: I couldn't successfully emulate the smartphone environment on my Windows 10 laptop (Here you laugh at my pains).
Once, I tried installing several apps on some emulators, but modern apps are designed around direct device-to-device communication. You’ve got to tell me that even a professional would struggle with this. I'm an amateur, I confess. Or at least, I pretended to be one.
Anyway, I use it now. Hmmm... I've gotten bored of it already. I changed my wallpaper to my dog's face, transferred several songs and streams from my laptop, and I'm now able to read my Gmail.
So what? I still type on my laptop. You see. Nothing has changed in my life. People would never count me as Gen Z. Were you expecting a proverb? Nothing came to my mind.
I emailed to IEEE Press and CSAIA, as below:
"To Conference、 ieee-mce、 conferencepublishing、 idams-osc、 Heliu
Dear CSAIA and IEEE Press:
This is Hideyasu SASAKI, PhD.
I've not heard from anyone about article below.
> the replacement of 22 PDF in the proceedings of the 2025
International Conference on Computer Science and Artificial
Intelligence Applications (CSAIA 2025, Conference Record #65930).
Pls. let me know what is going on.
And, if it is not possible, what should I do?
Let's say, submit another format like MS Word or something.
I've been irritated since its publication.
If you were I, you may please imagine what you would feel as a contributor.
I hope you would understand that as a human being.
So God bless you.
Very truly yours,
Hideyasu Ma. R. Edward "Hide" Sasaki, Esq., Ph.D. in Comp. Sci.
Senior Research Scientist, Nat'l Inst. Comms. Tech., Tokyo, Japan
2026/8/17 11:01 CSAIA <info@iccsaia.org>:
>
> Dear Publishing Operations team,
>
> Hope you had a great weekend.
>
> We would like to request the replacement of 22 PDF in the proceedings of the 2025 International Conference on Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Applications (CSAIA 2025, Conference Record #65930).
>
> The current PDF is incorrect. In particular, the PDF does not contain the mathematical formulas and does not show the algorithm. Please find the corrected PDF as attached. The paper details are as follows:
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> Title: Cohesive Performance Measurement of Optimization for Swarm Robots
> Author: Hideyasu Sasaki
> Affiliation: ICT Testbed R&D Promotion Center, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Tokyo, Japan
> Email: hsasaki@nict.go.jp
>
> Please review the attached file and replace the current 22 PDF with this correct version.
>
> Once the replacement has been completed, please kindly confirm by email.
>
> Thank you for your assistance.
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> Best regards,
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I have just updated my LinkedIn about the one-month fast-track internal audit in the NICT Knowledge Hub on June 2026.
I leveraged generative AI for legal and technical compliance cross-referencing and cross-examination during online interviews with department staff and associated vendor, and uncovered unauthorized external involvement from the project's very inception.
The AI agent system successfully identified that an ideological group with a specific political agenda fundamentally incompatible with the pure technological integrity and scientific mission of the NICT had intervened in the critical data definition and schema design phases.
I never imagined that such a ghost of the past century still haunted the modern era.
I have updated my LinkdIn, particularly about my experience at the Japan AI Safety Institute (JAISI) by including a picture of their business card. I also added the picture of the business card provided by NICT. Why? Am I boasting about something? No!!! Look closely at the two cards, compare them line by line, and imagine how shocked you would be to notice that something critical was missing from one of them. Would you really want to hand out a card like that in public? It's crystal clear.
In the north-east yard of my garden I found the first flowers of Collinsonia japonica - 'Shimo Bashira' in Japanese this morning. I've never mentioned its blossom until this year. I only once mentioned this species in the past. The reason is very simple; I didn't count that species in my record of gardening. Meanwhile, other species haven't blossomed in my garden this summer. This is something I've never experienced before. If I were religiously fanatic, I should say, "This is the deus irae." Sorry, I'm just kidding.
I am a computer scientist and a computational intelligence researcher in the field of swarm intelligence. The contemporary terms 'AI safety' and 'AI security' do not fall within my vocabulary; rather, I simply consider that the performance of LLMs should be evaluated using classical measures like precision and recall, along with various other statistical measures.
Actually, new measures are being published day by day in academia and the business sector. Meanwhile, the discussion on how humans use such statistics effectively is not satisfactory. Go back to the fundamental statistics that involve human evaluation in their use, and go forward to the next step—that is my belief.
I found my paper published online, and opened its PDF version through IEEE xplore. The PDF didn't show any math formula or algorithm! What is this?
The conference is "the 6th International Conference on Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Applications (CSAIA 2025), IEEE Press, Changsha, China, Hybrid, November 7 - 9, 2025."
The conference organizer sent me the camera ready file of my paper in 27th May 2026.
I quote, 'Dear Dr. Sasaki,
I hope this email finds you well.
I am very pleased to inform you that your revised manuscript has now been successfully finalized. Thank you very much for your careful revisions, patience, and kind cooperation throughout the entire process.
Please find the final PDF version of your paper attached. Please review the file at your earliest convenience and reply to this email with confirmation that all contents and formatting are correct.
If there are no further issues, we will proceed with submitting this final version to IEEE Xplore for publication. After publication, IEEE will submit the paper for indexing in EI Compendex and Scopus.
Once the paper is officially available online, we will inform you again by email.
I would also like to thank you again for your support of CSAIA 2025 and for your understanding and cooperation with our editorial work.
Wishing you continued success in your research, and a flourishing academic career.
Best regards,
CSAIA 2025 Organizing Committee' quote ends.
They've never informed me about its publication yet. I found it by myself!
What are they doing? They have another conference CSAIA 2026 online. What would they do next?! You should watch what they are doing!
I found a lovely English song of 'tanuki' (Japanese raccoon dogs): SHO-JO-JI (The hungry raccoon) by Eartha Kitt [RCA Victor 47-6245] 1955.
Two weeks ago, I acquired a Japanese Zen monk's scroll. To verify its authenticity, I thoroughly investigated the quote and examined the paper's physical texture. Forgers frequently use period-accurate paper from the monk’s lifetime to deceive buyers, including museum experts. Consequently, textual analysis alone is insufficient. A proper appraisal requires physical scrutiny of every component: the paper, wood, lacquer, silk, and cords. By the way, would you be interested in hunting for your own hidden treasures in Japan?
It was nearly 19 years ago when I first visited Hiyoshi Taisha Shrine in Sakamoto, Otsu, Japan. I headed to the shrine office, a building built in a traditional Japanese style. It was around 5:30 am when I stepped into the entrance hall and saw a woman dressed in a kimono walking upstairs. I assumed she was the person presiding over the meeting I was invited to. So, I stayed in the hall and waited for her to come back down. However, she never reappeared, even after half an hour. Then, a group of ladies arrived and asked why I hadn't gone upstairs to wait for them. I explained that another lady was using the upper floor to change or prepare. Puzzled, they called over a staff member of the office. He informed us that no one had entered the building before me. We all went upstairs together but found the floor completely empty. When I described what I had seen, the clerk replied, "That happens quite often here. The 'tanuki' (Japanese raccoon dogs) like to play tricks on people."
I am delighted to add a scroll by Japanese Zen monk Sessou Soueki (1776–1859) to my collection. It was written around the 1850s, during his tenure as abbot of Daitokuji Temple. Interestingly, many art dealers dismissed it as a forgery, simply because the quote comes from the Book of Rites instead of popular Chinese Zen texts. They were unaware that the exact phrase was actually recorded by a Chinese Zen monk of the Yuan-Ming era, who had originally referenced the book.
The phrase reads, 'Tiān wú sī fù'—'Heaven overspreads all without partiality.' The Chinese monk had incorporated this teaching of Confucius into his own Zen verse (January 1372) to mourn the victims of the wars during the Yuan-Ming transition: 'Tiān wú sī gài, dì wú sī zài, shān hé dà dì, jìn bèi ēn guāng, cǎo mù kūn chóng, xián zī huà lì'—'Heaven covers all without partiality, and Earth sustains all without partiality. The mountains, rivers, and the vast lands are completely bathed in nature's grace. Every plant, tree, and tiny insect relies on this universal, life-giving power to thrive and transform.'
Surprisingly, AI search has identified exact excerpts that I need from the teachings of famous Chinese Zen monks. I searched for a phrase in the records of Jìtán Zōnglè, who lived during the late Yuan and early Ming dynasties (1318–1391).
I first tried Kyoto University's database, where it was difficult to find the specific title. However, the AI search found the exact same excerpt from the original anthology of Zen records published in China.
Mixed Japanese script—specifically the use of kana and kanji—remains a significant obstacle for various AI models handling classical texts.
The phrase that I need is originated from Chapter 29 of 'Lǐjì' or Book of Rites, and Zen monks often refer to its 'kǒng zǐ xián jū piān' or 'Confucius at home at leisure' in their records. Anyway, it's nice to step forward for my investigation.
Last month, I used a multi-agent AI system to create a fake persona that pretended to be me posting on this blog, similar to Torquemada. While it isn't my original idea—it actually traces back to Gödel's incompleteness theorems—I’m not particularly smart when it comes to mathematics.
I appreciate Wakayama University for their generosity in publishing the database that contains the diary of Lord Miura Nagato-no-kami Tametoki. My investigation of the individual was successful because I gained access to the database.
I particularly appreciate Shuya Nakamura: Tea ceremony in the official diary of Murata Tametoki, house elder of the Kishu domain, Cultural Studies of Chanoyu (Journal of Kyoto University), Vol. 6. pp. 69-136, January 2026. I found the name of the individual in the page of 129 of this article. Unfortunately, the entire content of the article is written in Japanese.
