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UCC has paid huge sums to a criminal professor
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This is a public interest story about a complete failure of governance and management at UCC.
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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: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8Everybody with the function to think independently can realise that many ordinary daily activities are more dangerous than taking Es...
Motorists and their passengers are at a much greater risk of death or injury, as are heavy drinkers, heavy smokers and probably people who use mobile phones and microwaves and live near telephone masts...
This anti-drug propaganda would barely be mentioned if Ecstasy was legal and Governments were earning taxes from its sale...
PS: A separate study conducted in Britain and published around a month ago found that the dangers and ill-effects of Es may have been exaggerated all along. The study found that long-term brain damage attributed to Es is actually caused by repeatedly staying awake all night and dancing, not by the chemical MDMA...
It found that moderate ecstasy users who get adequate sleep and don't dance themselves half to death are in no danger from the drug...
See: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,784711,00.html
It has serious effects on memory, or coherence, or something - I can't remember...
even an undergraduate health scientist (the sort of academic that might be posted by wicklow greens on the IMC site) knows that squirrel monkies are unsuitable subjects for such experimentation.
To date the most interesting research done on the harmful effects of MDMA have been done in Italy.
At present there is long term study at the East London University.
We know from weighing the data of over 15 international studies on MDMA that lesions can occur on certain animal brain-tissues.
We as of yet do not know if that is harmful to the human brain.
Studies on the effects of MDMA on humans are confused by the fact the no drug user soley uses MDMA. Thanks to effective drug awareness campaigns we have seen drug testing introduced in countries across europe from Catalúnya to the Nederlands but not Ireland.
This has at least afforded users the knowledge of 96% of what they are taking.
Alexander Shulgin credited with the invention of MDMA list over 600 other psycho-active compounds in the book he co-authored with his wife the charming Jenny. Its title is PIKHAIL.
I shall trawl our files for useful information for Irish readers and publish next week.
I do not wish to discredit teh research at Hopkins Univ, but would rather advise that its results and direction are far from conclusive.
another consideration for human users of MDMA is enviroment.
The water, ventilation issues.
We have effectively campaigned in the light of personal autonomy and health issues that these be improved and thought of.
Humans dance on the SSRI drugs.
MDMA belongs to the SSRI family of seratonin inhibitors.
non professional dancing by those non-trained to dance long periods of time leads to lesions on brain tissues, muscle strain, back pain.
Many of "the conspiracy theory sypmtoms of Ecstasy use agony and pain" can in fact be most sensibly explained as the after effects of bad posture dancing, and dehydration.
We shall post all you need know soon.
maybe Oct19 for the celebration party that night.
now we are in for a long campaign here,
and we expected to see many kites flown by the
inexperienced.
and we thought of them all before.
you little rascals!
No we do not support drug use.
However we ackowledge that countless of Europe´s youth have taken "illegal" drugs.
We also maintain the position that indiginous plants have been criminalised despite their many obvious benefits to the bio-sphere and humanity. (Canabis).
We call on all sensible people to care for their friends, pals, children who have taken "illegal" drugs and make sure they have all information possible so as to maintain their health.
We also remind those same sensible people that the same chemical compounds are often re-dressed and patented and sold by multi-national corporations as "health" products.
will you be naming those multi-national corporation health products?
My mother appears to be addicted to Prozac
my grandmother spent thirty years on Vallium
my great grand father died of drink.
And when the London underground went on strike this week and knocked millions off the City of London was that the wombles?
And now Ray Burke has joined Haughey are the rest of the little rascals going to be got too?
And I´m new to all this but catching on quick.
for starters on Pharma-greed.
then we´ll talk about "logo" publicity
on pills.
and why there are so few breach of copyright cases relating to same.
then MAYBE we´ll go on to more interesting stuff.
MAYBE
O AS IF