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This is a public interest story about a complete failure of governance and management at UCC.
Deliberate Design Flaw In ChatGPT-5 Sun Aug 17, 2025 08:04 | Mind Agent
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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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Israeli Human Rights Group B'Tselem finally Admits It is Genocide releasing Our Genocide report Fri Aug 01, 2025 23:54 | 1 of indy
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Western governments like the USA are complicit in it as they have been supplying the huge bombs and missiles used by Israel and dropped on innocent civilians in Gaza. One phone call from the USA regime could have ended it at any point. However many other countries are complicity with their tacit approval and neighboring Arab countries have been pretty spinless too in their support
With the release of this report titled: Our Genocide -there is a good chance this will make it okay for more people within Israel itself to speak out and do something about it despite the fact that many there are actually in support of the Gaza
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Launch of Equality: From Theory to Action
Book Launch From UCD Equality Studies Centre
‘A truly extraordinary book’ - Professor Erik Olin Wright, University of Wisconsin, Madison
‘A major achievement that should be on the reading list of every politician, academic and activist’
Professor Madeleine Arnot, University of Cambridge Equality: From Theory to Action (by John Baker, Kathleen Lynch, Sara Cantillon and Judy Walsh of the Equality Studies Centre, UCD) is being launched in the National Library by Michael D. Higgins at 6pm on Wednesday November 17th.
Equality: From Theory to Action is a ground-breaking book that sets out a new interdisciplinary model for understanding equality. This highly accessible book has received strong acclaim already internationally for ‘providing a powerful framework for a new egalitarianism in the 21st century’. It proposes far-reaching changes in the economy, politics, law, education and research practices to create more inclusive societies in Ireland and elsewhere. It also outlines a set of innovative political strategies for achieving a more socially just society, and as such, is an invaluable resource not only for academics and activists.
§ Equality is a fundamental principle governing the operation of all democratic societies. It is enshrined in a range of international agreements to which Ireland is party and which it has formally ratified, including the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenant on Social and Economic and Cultural Rights and the International Covenant on Civic and Political Rights. It is also a central principle underpinning the Belfast Agreement of 1998.
§ Equality is a prerequisite for the exercise of several important freedoms, including the freedom to participate actively in political life, to have a home of one’s own, to enjoy education to the full or to be culturally active and engaged Put simply, the cost of living in society is the cost of participating in it. People who have less resources, power, status and/or care cannot participate on equal terms with those who have more, not least because the norms or standards of participation are set by those who are better off.
Inequality is bad for you
Systematic and objective analysis of data drawn from multiple sources of research evidence shows that inequality is deeply dysfunctional for society, both in the short and the long term.
· Inequality undermines democracy. Those who are treated unequally within the state have, over time, little loyalty to the political system. Wealth and income inequalities, for example, contribute to political alienation from the democratic process.
· Inequality is inefficient. It leads to many of the talents and capabilities in society being under-developed and under-utilised. This is due in no small part to the fact that significant minorities leave education without any formal qualifications and/or become alienated from an education system in which they know they cannot compete on equal terms with those with vastly greater resources.
· Inequality contributes to crime. When society encourages mass consumption through advertising and when the price of consumption is too high for those on low incomes, alternative ‘economies’ based on crime and/or illegal trading ensue with all the attendant costs to the exchequer that managing crime entails.
· Inequality is bad for your health. It is beyond dispute that deprivation, poverty and their attendant consequences can impact adversely on people’s health. What is more surprising is that the experience of inequality itself can impact in a negative way upon national health status. International research demonstrates how more egalitarian well-off countries like Sweden and Japan have better health rates than their richer, yet more unequal counterparts such as the U.S. and the U.K.
For more information contact:
John.Baker@ucd.ie tel: 7167872
Kathleen.Lynch@ucd.ie: Tel: 7167623
Sara.Cantillon@ucd.ie (on leave until Jan 05)
Judy.Walsh@ucd.ie Tel: 7167504
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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5So whats the solution?
Its simple: join the Labour Party, get into government with those other great defenders of the 'marginalised' Fine Gael and the Greens and watch as they take on 'the powerful and priveleged' by establishing bottom up particapatory democracy! Remember how Michael D. did all of that the last time (tax amnesties etc?).
What a pity tto see radical academics end up being a fig leaf for the Blairite Labour Party
We are well aware of the criticisms egalitarians have of social democratic parties and discuss this issue at length in chapter 12 of our book. One aspect of this issue is to recognise that there are internal disagreements within these parties and that egalitarians need to cooperate with the radical elements within such parties. I invite Paddy to have a look at that chapter and continue the discussion.
Clever trick to get me to buy the book eh?
Seriously, though, Im ploughing through it (what with all this activism finding it hard to get time to read) and I will respond to your specific comment when I get to chapter 12.
Meanwhile as a taster, could you give me an example of where a radical wing of an otherwise conservative/mainstream social democratic party has had a major impact, in terms of forcing the implementation of radical democratic reforms in either political or economic sphere?
Lets start with the Irish Labour Party: never happened in its entire history.
More after chapter 12!
The proletariate must rise up and eliminate the bourgeoise and establish a dictatorship of the proletariat after which it will fade away and inevitably a free society of total equality will emerge.