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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?.

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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

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Thursday January 01 1970

Mafia State author to speak in Dublin

category dublin | rights, freedoms and repression | event notice author Wednesday April 11, 2012 11:11author by Amnesty 1 - Amnesty International Irelandauthor email communications at amnesty dot ie Report this post to the editors

Luke Harding, the Guardian's former Moscow correspondent and the author of Mafia State: How one reporter became an enemy of the brutal new Russia, speaking in Dublin

In today's Russia human rights defenders and independent journalists are threatened, harassed and even attacked. The murder of Anna Politkovskaya in October 2006 shocked the world. Yet for every Anna, there have been many less widely known journalists killed for their work across Russia. Many of these deaths were never properly investigated.

In today's Russia human rights defenders and independent journalists are threatened, harassed and even attacked. The murder of Anna Politkovskaya in October 2006 shocked the world. Yet for every Anna, there have been many less widely known journalists killed for their work across Russia. Many of these deaths were never properly investigated.

Ordinary Russians risk arrest, or even violence from the authorities, for being involved in peaceful political demonstrations. Despite this, thousands of people still took to the streets last month to protest against alleged irregularities in the election that saw Vladimir Putin return as Russia's president.

Luke Harding was appointed the Guardian's Moscow correspondent in 2007 and wrote extensively on politics and corruption in Russia and the curtailment of civil liberties. He also investigated counter-terrorism and operations conducted by the Russian security forces in the Caucasus region.

In 2011, shortly after reporting that leaked US diplomatic cables described Russia as a 'virtual mafia state', he became the first British journalists in 11 years to be expelled from Russia.

In his new book, Mafia State: How one reporter became an enemy of the brutal new Russia, he writes about his own experiences as a journalist targeted by the Federal Security Bureau who broke into his home, hacked his email and monitored his phone calls.

On Thursday 19 April at 7.30pm in Amnesty International Ireland's offices at 48 Fleet Street, Mr Harding will talk about the human rights situation in Russia today, and in particular his own experience as a journalist trying to operate in a country where the very notion of a free press is under threat.

The event is jointly organised by Front Line Defenders and Amnesty International Ireland. All are welcome, and admission is free.

Related Link: http://www.amnesty.ie/news/mafia-state-author-speak-dublin

 #   Title   Author   Date 
   Can we cover this stuff too, or is it just rivals of US Hegemony?     Amnasty    Sat Apr 14, 2012 06:37 
   Guardian 'Journalist' Luke Harding     Me    Sun Apr 15, 2012 02:12 
   For example     Me    Sun Apr 15, 2012 02:15 
   Maybe THIS will explain why Amnesty feels the need to promote a cheap hack like Harding     Me    Sun Apr 15, 2012 02:27 
   Luke Harding - banned for life from Russia, for good reasons     Putin    Sun Apr 15, 2012 13:42 
   Luke Harding deserved to be kicked out of Russia     Russkie    Sun Apr 15, 2012 16:52 
   Luke Harding: Even The Guardian admits that he is a Plagarist     Putin    Sun Apr 15, 2012 18:22 
   what's going on here?     JoeMc    Sun Apr 15, 2012 21:45 
   Amnesty Bradley Manning     Getting the truth out.    Sun Apr 15, 2012 22:13 
 10   yeah me too Joe     Putin    Sun Apr 15, 2012 22:47 
 11   Amnesty - Who Funds it?     Putin    Sun Apr 15, 2012 22:56 
 12   Amnesty main page is somewhat troubling...     lefty    Sun Apr 15, 2012 23:05 
 13   Amnesty News     Reader    Sun Apr 15, 2012 23:51 
 14   not the front page...     lefty    Mon Apr 16, 2012 03:32 
 15   lefty     libertarian leninist    Mon Apr 16, 2012 11:19 
 16   a US propagandists wet dream?     Putin    Mon Apr 16, 2012 11:31 
 17   Amnesty USA     l    Mon Apr 16, 2012 11:59 
 18   Palestinian Hunger Strike     Putin    Mon Apr 16, 2012 12:10 
 19   Putin     l    Mon Apr 16, 2012 12:16 
 20   Lunchtime Demo: Palestinian Prisoners Day – End EU Facilitation of Israeli Apartheid     l    Mon Apr 16, 2012 12:19 
 21   You missed the point completly     Putin    Mon Apr 16, 2012 12:26 
 22   @ l     Putin    Mon Apr 16, 2012 12:28 
 23   Putin     l    Mon Apr 16, 2012 12:35 
 24   Putin     l    Mon Apr 16, 2012 12:37 
 25   Zionist calim that THEY represent all things 'Jewish'     Putin    Mon Apr 16, 2012 12:42 
 26   1,600 Palestinian prisoners to go on open-ended hunger strike     l    Mon Apr 16, 2012 12:45 
 27   Putin     l    Mon Apr 16, 2012 12:49 
 28   Again you are proving my point for me     Putin    Mon Apr 16, 2012 13:00 
 29   whatever - police yourself - leave me out of it     Putin    Mon Apr 16, 2012 13:04 
 30   Putin     l    Mon Apr 16, 2012 13:07 
 31   I agree with you about Press Tv     Putin    Mon Apr 16, 2012 13:09 
 32   Putin     l    Mon Apr 16, 2012 13:10 
 33   Why did Amnesty appoint a long-time US State Dept operative to head up it's US Branch?     Putin    Mon Apr 16, 2012 13:15 
 34   Putin     l    Mon Apr 16, 2012 13:17 
 35   Don't ignore the question ;-)     Putin    Mon Apr 16, 2012 13:18 
 36   Oh Please!     Putin    Mon Apr 16, 2012 13:23 
 37   Putin     l    Mon Apr 16, 2012 13:24 
 38   Evidence?     Putin    Mon Apr 16, 2012 13:28 
 39   Putin     l    Mon Apr 16, 2012 13:32 
 40   Putin     l    Mon Apr 16, 2012 13:37 
 41   RE: your preference for 'Ad Hominem'     Putin    Mon Apr 16, 2012 13:43 
 42   More personal attack from you     Putin    Mon Apr 16, 2012 13:45 
 43   Nossel worked for 2 of the worst War-Mongers in recent decades     Putin    Mon Apr 16, 2012 13:49 
 44   Putin     l    Mon Apr 16, 2012 13:50 
 45   more 'ad hominem'     Putin    Mon Apr 16, 2012 13:52 
 46   BTW     Putin    Mon Apr 16, 2012 13:57 
 47   Asking for evidence     Putin    Mon Apr 16, 2012 13:59 
 48   L, I'd happily agree with you     Putin    Mon Apr 16, 2012 16:30 
 49   Re: Amnesty's criticism of USA, and Suzanne Nossel     @ l    Mon Apr 16, 2012 18:00 
 50   this rule, while it may have its reasons, is a slippery slope in some respects     lefty    Tue Apr 17, 2012 20:09 
 51   Rule changed     oldtimer    Tue Apr 17, 2012 20:29 
 52   So easy for you Amnesty groupies to spectacularly miss the point     Putin    Tue Apr 17, 2012 22:42 
 53   putting the focus back onto the now compromised Amnesty International     Putin    Tue Apr 17, 2012 22:59 
 54   Just who are "Front Line Defenders", Amnesty's new BFF in promoting Propagandist Luke Harding?     Putin    Tue Apr 17, 2012 23:14 
 55   Palestine-Update:Human rights defender Mr Shawan Jabarin allowed under strict conditions to travel to Geneva to meet a UN expert Mr Shawan Jabarin     FLD    Tue Apr 17, 2012 23:32 
 56   The Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT)     FLD    Tue Apr 17, 2012 23:35 
 57   Honduras: Death threat and ongoing intimidation against human rights defender Ms Dina Meetabel Meza Elvir     FLD    Tue Apr 17, 2012 23:38 
 58   Bahrain: COUNTDOWN TO FORMULA 1 - How long will our friend and former colleague Abdulhadi Alkhawaja survive?     FLD    Tue Apr 17, 2012 23:40 
 59   Joint submission by Front Line Defenders and UDEFEGUA to United Nations Universal Periodic Review re situation of HRDs in Guatemala     FLD    Tue Apr 17, 2012 23:42 
 60   Russian Federation-Update: Governor signs homophobic law into force     FLD    Tue Apr 17, 2012 23:46 
 61   'FLD' - is that the FrontLine Defenders Press Officer or what?     Putin    Tue Apr 17, 2012 23:48 
 62   Uzbekistan-UPDATE: Reports of torture of imprisoned human rights defender Mr. Azam Farmonov not being investigated     FLD    Tue Apr 17, 2012 23:50 
 63   Kyrgyzstan-UPDATE     FLD    Tue Apr 17, 2012 23:54 
 64   About Front Line Defenders     FLD    Tue Apr 17, 2012 23:57 
 65   FLD Staff     FLD    Wed Apr 18, 2012 00:00 
 66   Act Now!     FDL    Wed Apr 18, 2012 00:05 
 67   So, NO! . . FLD does NOT want to discuss FLD's spurces of funding     Putin    Wed Apr 18, 2012 00:16 
 68   Full list of Funding Sources for Amnesty's Anti-Russian Propaganda co-promoter 'Frontline Defenders'     Vlad the Prevailer    Wed Apr 18, 2012 12:15 
 69   For some strange reason FLD seems VERY reluctant to discuss Funding Sources     Vlad the Prevailer    Wed Apr 18, 2012 12:27 
 70   surprised you're surprised..     opus diablos    Wed Apr 18, 2012 12:46 
 71   Luke Harding attacks Julian Assange as "useful idiot". Pot kettle?     lefty    Thu Apr 19, 2012 08:25 
 72   I was scanning to see where I might lodge this..     opus diablos    Tue Apr 24, 2012 14:08 


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