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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: 4 3 2 1yesterday in France has caused lots of tributes to pour in this afternoon from luminaries as luminous as Chirac (who used quote Ricoeur many times), and the Pope, (who's very brainy) distracting many thinkers from the Eurovision song contest, and the handy new 10€ coin commemorating William Rowan Hamilton, one of the most bizarre linguist / mathematicians / specimens to come out of XIX century Ireland. you can read about Ricouer here-
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=69930
And here is a letter which touches upon some of the themes which Derrida worked with in his last years.
Coz, I want you all to know, that philosophy is not just about wrecking the heads of undergraduates who thought it might be an easy study option, or even about filling bookshelves with tomes that no-one really reads (unless they're sure they're going to publish a related essay) No- Not a bit of it. Modern day, tippy toppy philosophy has moved on and out, and now thinkers are more than willing to engage in precarious work like the rest of us, and are intent on practical application of the theories which have been developed in the last century on such areas as materialism, ethics, hermeneutics, phenomonology, epistomology and deconstruction. Yes indeedy. Philosophy is getting its hands dirty.
Here's an interesting interview with Jurgen Habermas, whom the religious site wikipedia would have you believe is a bosom body of Benedict XVI, in which he treats upon the surprising alliance between Derrida (the man above) and himself against Bush and though their joint efforts surprised many (they had been at intellectual logerheads for years in the 80s infamously resorting to persistent troll comments in the superstar philosopher web blog sites and even at one point graffiti tagging each other houses).
They asked Paul Ricoeur to help them in this, but he couldn't coz he was too political at that stage, being "intellektshual" to the Elysee. (we don't have an Irish equivalent for that, because all our intellektshuals leave before they're recognised and generally have done a stint washing dishes, bricklaying or begging). We do have conor cruise o brien though. And he seems to serve the needs.
http://www.logosjournal.com/habermas_america.htm
I suppose Habermas is going to pop it soon.
"It's all about memory. Selective and Collective memory. Memory as fetishised community. Communality as fetishised memorial"
(that's me).
"Deridada"
haha!
The old man would of loved that term!
Who's to say who's really "dead" or "alive" anyway, when you really think about it?
The deconstruction school found adherents in Literature, Music, Art, Psychoanlysis, Cryptology, Philsophy and Politics.
If you could take it apart and see how it was made, you went and grabbed the hard disc brought it somewhere and quietly derridadaded it.
Derrida wrote
To 'deconstruct' philosophy, thus, would be to think -- in a most faithful, interior way -- the structured genealogy of philosophy's concepts, but at the same time to determine -- from a certain exterior that is unqualifiable or unnameable by philosophy -- what this history has been able to dissimulate or forbid, making itself into a history by means of this somewhere motivated repression.
His political philosophy defied definition.
But the Irish academic Richard Kearney contrasted himwith Levinas as a thinker for whom ethical questions were intrinsically ontological.
To be honest, I thought the advent of microsoft word count and linux wcp, meant that derridadading things had become too easy. And I was almost irrevocably turned off Brahms after sitting through the compulsary music deconstruction lectures of my youth.
But decompose peacefully
history will be good to you.