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This design flaw in ChatGPT-5's default epistemic mode subverts what the much touted ChatGPT-5 can do... so long as the flaw is not tickled, any usage should be fine---The epistemological question is: how would anyone in the public, includes you reading this (since no one is all knowing), in an unfamiliar domain know whether or not the flaw has been tickled when seeking information or understanding of a domain without prior knowledge of that domain???!
This analysis is a pretty unique and significant contribution to the space of empirical evaluation of LLMs that exist in AI public world... at least thus far, as far as I am aware! For what it's worth--as if anyone in the ChatGPT universe cares as they pile up on using the "PhD level scholar in your pocket".
According to GPT-5, and according to my tests, this flaw exists in all LLMs... What is revealing is the deduction GPT-5 made: Why ?design choice? starts looking like ?deliberate flaw?.
People are paying $200 a month to not just ChatGPT, but all major LLMs have similar Pro pricing! I bet they, like the normal user of free ChatGPT, stay in LLM's default mode where the flaw manifests itself. As it did in this evaluation.
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Jump To Comment: 23 22 21 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1reports as do most media with Ireland in mind, that McDowell has won the Italian Open.
They're talking about "golf" expert Mc Dowell not the inept other Mc Dowell, who on the face of it could pick up an Italian Prize as well.
rte doing "you welcome EU enlargement poll"
of course the vast majority do, put that simply any would, would you like a blow on the head with a rubber truncheon or kick in the balls?
anyway, there is a "maybe" option.
at time of writing only 5.1% have opted for maybe.
I have long opted for "Maybe".
strange world
LONDON : Doubts arose over the authenticity of photos apparently showing British troops abusing an Iraqi detainee, after military sources quoted by the BBC said many aspects of the pictures were suspicious.
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The rifle appears to be an SA80 mk 1, which was not issued to soldiers in Iraq, the BBC said.
Troops also wore berets or hard hats, not the floppy hats as seen in the pictures. The truck in the photo also appears to be a type never used in Iraq, the broadcaster said.
more at....
Seems like the US aren't the only ones bringing democracy and freedom to the Iraqis.
Today the list of dead US soldiers began to be published in US newspapers.
It counterpoints with the hoped for end of Micheal Jackson and the video of US soldiers running a torture session and rape room.
Bush paranoid wookie he,
has never attended a single funeral.
His office has attempted to completely ignore the bodybags.
USA Today the most read tabloid under a new editor, will be doing more to clean the wound with antiseptic and salt.
succinctly reporting that the May 1st Grassroots Network protest is now happening at 6pm at the GPO coz the Gardai "security" arrangements were going to cause trouble.
Interesting little tidbit about Prodi saying that Germany and France are going to lose jobs to the new accession countries.
can go fuck themselves. We don't try to run or run down any of your groups. No to the colonisation of Indymedia.ie This UK post from someone in dublin is full of lies and bullshit.
with exception that May 1 "Bring the Noise" is now at GPO at 6pm.
Ropes have been found in the Phoenix Park and raids on unoccupied homes and flats in Dublin have recovered protective padding, spray paint, Womble stencils and bleach.
Garda Commissioner Noel Conroy is reported in the Irish Independent as stoking the fires of fear. Falling back on the tried and true "outside agitators" hype he pulls the figure of "300" "troublemakers" out of someone's arse. He doesn't specify how reliable this intelligence is, he doesn't say exactly who told him.
Similarly "Security Editor" Tom Brady of The Irish Independent doesn't seem to be very keen on doing any journalistic fact-checking, preferring instead to be spoon fed by "official sources". Get off yer arse Tom and make like a journalist!
Who or what agency is behind these figures?
Do they have a history of reliability?
Why doesn't Tom Brady point out that the history of protests from Seattle to Genoa has mostly resulted in demonstrators being attacked, gaoled and otherwise abused by the people that are probably feeding him these figures?
Is it too much to expect Tom to sing for his supper?
Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism reported as expecting no trouble. RTE News. Audio available.
They call themselves Nationalists
http://www.20six.co.uk/IrelandsRight
is the website to what looks like the newest right wing commentary site in Ireland. Apparently they only have two or three authors as of now, but are actively recruiting more to post there. We are not currently sure what kind of threat they pose, but it's quite clear by their writing that they are right wing types who are our natural enemies.
Wanted everyone to be aware of these new ones, and keep up the good work everyone, May day is right around the corner! :)
Cormac Devlin (FF) Dún Laoghaire Local Election Candidate has slammed Dún Laoghaire Rathdown County Council for failing to provide affordable housing in the Dún Laoghaire area. Full text on politics.ie at link below:
did anyone notice that artilce in the indo the other day... it was about mayday but wasn't too reactionary...
the guy started off listing what you could do on mayday weekend....
protest tu march beltaine dcc conference etc
im sure he got most of the list from indymedia events list you see just to your left....
i guess it was a good thing that he used it but he should try a little ahrder in his research im sure he missed out things that weren't on this list... that be happening on mayday
Transcript and audio on DemocracyNOW!
Amy Goodman's program DemocracyNOW! carries a report on how an activist confronted the chairman and CEO of Coke at their annual shareholder's meeting in Delaware.
The activist (Ray Rogers) accused the Chairman/CEO (Douglas Daft) of lying at an earlier public meeting at Brandeis University. Rogers also points out the lawsuit against Coke was reinstated on the 26th of April and that Daft had lied about that.
The interview with Amy Goodman goes on to describe how Rogers (who was present as a proxy for 3000 shares and had the right to speak) was assaulted by Coca-Cola Company thugs.
Worth reading and listening to.
The DA had been prosecuting 25 victims of the police assault which took place on April 7, 2003 in the Port of Oakland. A year later, the ordeal of these people finally ended in a strange twist.
http://www.guerrillanews.com/sci-tech/doc4365.html
Two American soldiers have deserted, claiming asylum in Canada rather than serve in Iraq. They argue that the war is illegal under international law
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1190714,00.html
MIAMI, Florida (AP) -- A radio station that crank-called Cuban President Fidel Castro and broadcast the recording should be fined $4,000, the Federal Communications Commission said.
The Spanish-speaking hosts of "The Morning High Jinks" used snippets of an earlier prank involving Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to move the call from a receptionist up the chain to Castro in a five-minute broadcast June 17.
The hosts of the show on WXDJ-FM, Joe Ferrero and Enrique Santos, fed pleasantries to Castro before breaking in and calling him an assassin. The conversation ended after Castro denounced the callers with a stream of vulgarities.
This interesting little interview was carried on several of the Public Radio International sister stations in the U.S.A. It consists of a conversation with two medics and is ostensibly about how their idealism in "liberating" Iraq has turned towards a belief that dictatorship might have been better for the Iraqis (according to at least one of the participants who states this outright).
Slashdot (News for Nerds. Stuff that Matters) is reporting on the lightshow for Dublin that allows you to submit your own designs: http://www.dublinelevation.net/
Apparently not many designs are being submitted and those that are go live pretty quickly, so off ya go!
The Guardian reports on Lord Carlisle's review of the use of the sweeping search-and-stop powers given to the British police by the Terrorism Act 2000 and the Anti-Terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001.
Specific mention was made of the police interference with protestors against the UK's complicity in the Iraq war at the Fairford bomber refuelling base.