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Fraud and mismanagement at University College Cork Thu Aug 28, 2025 18:30 | Calli Morganite
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.
Deliberate Design Flaw In ChatGPT-5 Sun Aug 17, 2025 08:04 | Mind Agent
Socratic Dialog Between ChatGPT-5 and Mind Agent Reveals Fatal and Deliberate 'Design by Construction' Flaw
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.
AI Reach: Gemini Reasoning Question of God Sat Aug 02, 2025 20:00 | Mind Agent
Evaluating Semantic Reasoning Capability of AI Chatbot on Ontologically Deep Abstract (bias neutral) Thought
I have been evaluating AI Chatbot agents for their epistemic limits over the past two months, and have tested all major AI Agents, ChatGPT, Grok, Claude, Perplexity, and DeepSeek, for their epistemic limits and their negative impact as information gate-keepers.... Today I decided to test for how AI could be the boon for humanity in other positive areas, such as in completely abstract realms, such as metaphysical thought. Meaning, I wanted to test the LLMs for Positives beyond what most researchers benchmark these for, or have expressed in the approx. 2500 Turing tests in Humanity?s Last Exam.. And I chose as my first candidate, Google DeepMind's Gemini as I had not evaluated it before on anything.
Israeli Human Rights Group B'Tselem finally Admits It is Genocide releasing Our Genocide report Fri Aug 01, 2025 23:54 | 1 of indy
We have all known it for over 2 years that it is a genocide in Gaza
Israeli human rights group B'Tselem has finally admitted what everyone else outside Israel has known for two years is that the Israeli state is carrying out a genocide in Gaza
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
China?s CITY WIDE CASH SEIZURES Begin ? ATMs Frozen, Digital Yuan FORCED Overnight Wed Jul 30, 2025 21:40 | 1 of indy
This story is unverified but it is very instructive of what will happen when cash is removed
THIS STORY IS UNVERIFIED BUT PLEASE WATCH THE VIDEO OR READ THE TRANSCRIPT AS IT GIVES AN VERY GOOD IDEA OF WHAT A CASHLESS SOCIETY WILL LOOK LIKE. And it ain't pretty
A single video report has come out of China claiming China's biggest cities are now cashless, not by choice, but by force. The report goes on to claim ATMs have gone dark, vaults are being emptied. And overnight (July 20 into 21), the digital yuan is the only currency allowed.
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News Round-Up Sun Nov 23, 2025 01:46 | Will Jones
A summary of the most interesting stories in the past 24 hours that challenge the prevailing orthodoxy about the ?climate emergency?, public health ?crises? and the supposed moral defects of Western civilisation.
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British TV Comedy Has Lost its Class Sat Nov 22, 2025 17:00 | Finlay McLaren
The BBC's Director of Comedy wants to "save the sitcom". But the sitcom is only endangered because most of them stopped being funny. As To the Manor Born reminds us, British comedy has lost its class, says Finlay McLaren.
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Is the Era of Cheap Internet Surveys Over? Sat Nov 22, 2025 15:00 | Noah Carl
Is the era of cheap internet surveys over? A new paper demonstrates that AIs can now be "trivially programmed" to answer online surveys in ways that are essentially indistinguishable from humans.
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Thank Lockdowns for the Worst Budget in History Sat Nov 22, 2025 13:00 | Will Jones
We're a week away from the most painful Budget in history thanks largely to the eye-watering cost of lockdown. Yet Baroness Hallett says next time the Government must be ready to go harder and faster. This is insanity.
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Taxpayers Are Charged for the BBC Whether They Like it or Not Sat Nov 22, 2025 11:00 | Charlotte Gill
It's bad enough that all UK TV users are forced to fund the BBC via a TV licence. But it's worse than that, says Charlotte Gill: millions of pounds of taxpayers' money are handed to the corporation via backdoor channels.
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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24Do you not like Americans or Israelis. Are you a racist anti-semitic? If you are, you will find you have plenty of friends on IndyMedia.
we should not fall into the trap of labelling people by their nationality. Just because a person is isreali or american does not mean they are pro-colonialism, by lumping people together as you do you form a stereotype, and a stereotype is not a true representation of any culture or society... are all irish alcoholics, lazy, backward? they are if you believe what the victorians said.
As long as the Israelis occupy Palestine they should not be welcome. There ongoing campsaign of genocide was vividly illustrated by the tank invasion of Gaza City and killing of 11 Palestinians.
Why no sanctions against the Terrorist State of Israel? When can we expect a "coalition of the willing" to bomb Tel Aviv?
This is disgusting; is a scientist from Israel automatically suspicious because of nationality? or of religion? or because you don't like Israel's political leadership?
You don't sound like an anti-war activist at all. Like George W. and the Iraqis, they're all the same to you.
its legitimate to suggest boycotts of countries who act in a racist manner; as israel does towards the palestinians. boycotts of south africa may well also have affected liberal/left south africans, but that was hardly a reason for dropping the boycott.
I abhor what Israel is doing to Palestinians. But many Israeli's haven't a clue as to what their Government is really about (Colonial Expansion).
There are many Israeli Jews who understand the score are are trying to stop the settlements.
Therefore one shouldn't categorise all Israelis as a generic bunch of bastards. Many aren't
Pat I wasn't talking about you I was talking about the original post - which I don't think is about boycotts, that's a separate issue.
He is basically doubting that the Israelis are "scientists", even putting it in inverted commas.
That kind of attitude is wrong - by anyone, against anyone. It is no different to the American conservatives who are automatically suspicious of Muslim workers and professionals and even people from "Islamic states". In my book, that's a horrible ignorance of the inherent dignity and autonomy of a human being - and we rightly criticise the American government and right-wingers when they say that racial,ethnic or national profiling is necessary at borders, for example. It has nothing to do with boycotts and everything to do with your attitude to your fellow human beings.
Point taken.
Some "research scientists" are just scientists!
Maybe his formulation is just a bit clumsy though.
A question Pat C (who once had the idiocy back in December to state that he didn't believe the IRA or FARC were terrorist organisation - merely "legitimate" freedom fighters, ha ha ha):
I can understand your point about boycotting Isreal. Will you be also boycotting Palestine/Palestinians? Considering their ongoing policy of targetting and murdering innocent Israeli civilians, they would deserve to be treated the same.
Some research scientists are just research scientists
Some Defence Attaches are just Defence Attaches.
Some are white Irish
Some are Israeli Jews
Why not call me anti-Irish when I picked on John, or were you too busy calling me anti-American or what is it now....anti-semitic? By the way I love Syrians(also Semites)
There's an interesting report from John McKenna about some Israelis who may be suspicious characters. John ties this in to other suspicious characters that we've all seen operating at Shannon.
This is part of the mechanism:
1.Government sells "Made in Europe" stickers to US or Israel or whoever and gets a few scabby jobs in return for undermining the EU economy.
2.Everyone gets worried about "job loss" if we take any sort of moral stand.
3.We end up with FOREIGN security forces spying on Irish activists.
John is doing some good reportage, drop the knee-jerk response to criticisms of Isrealis.
I am not calling anyone anti-semitic. We get enough of that on the site and I'll save that accusation for when it's actually true.
But the argument being made in the article is this:
(1) American agents are spying on Irish protests (True)
(2) Research scientists from Israel are working in Ireland (True)
(3) The U.S. and Israel are linked, financially and militarily (True)
(4) Therefore, the Israeli scientists are suspicious.
That's the problem. Flying leaps of logic that seem to come from nothing more than pure prejudice. It's irresponsible writing and scaremongering that would be worthy of any conservative CNN talking head.
I dont agree with the targetting of civilians in Israel but I can understand the frustration of the Palestinians who give their lives carrying out suicide bombings.
Isrealis murder civilians all the time, but they are safe in their tanks & jets when they massacre the innocents.
I dont agree with the targetting of civilians in Palestine but I can understand the frustration of the Israelis.
Palestinians murder civilians all the time, but they don't care because they kill themselves while doing it.
Pat C: grow up.
"I dont agree with the targetting of civilians in Palestine but I can understand the frustration of the Israelis."
Palestinians murder civilians all the time, but they don't care because they kill themselves while doing it. Im fact these scumbags are treated like heros by the palestinians if they manage to murder Jews.
Palestinian terrorists *ARE* terrorists. But civilians (whether Palestinian or Israeli) *ARE* civilians. Do you support the murder of civilians? If so, you a re a warmongering hypocrite, and I hope you weren't within a million miles of the anti-war march last week.
So grow up Pat C, you're possibly deranged. Although for someone that once said that the IRA and FARC weren't terrorist organisations, this is not surprising.
Which Israelis do you mean? Over one million Arabs have Israeli passports and are also Israelis. Do you mean that they also are not welcome or is it just Jewish Israelis? Please clarify.
I am talking about James Mackenna's original comment.
I am talking about James Mackenna's original comment.
"Palestinians murder civilians all the time, but they don't care because they kill themselves while doing it. Im fact these scumbags are treated like heros by the palestinians if they manage to murder Jews."
Palestinians strike back against the OCCUPIERS of their Land. Freedom Fighters are of course lauded as heros. I dont support the targetting of civilians but I am not surprised that some Palestinians will strike at Israelli Civilians after Palestinian Men , Women & Children have been massacred by the Israelis.
"Palestinian terrorists *ARE* terrorists."
Why dont you call members of the Israeli forcses terrorist?
"But civilians (whether Palestinian or Israeli) *ARE* civilians. Do you support the murder of civilians? If so, you a re a warmongering hypocrite, and I hope you weren't within a million miles of the anti-war march last week."
As I have made clear on numerous occasions I dont support the murder of Civilians, the Israeli STate does.
"So grow up Pat C, you're possibly deranged. "
So, I am mad because I disagree with you! Does that not remind you of the former USSR? Where so many dissidents from a jewish background ended up in psychiatric hospitals because they questioned the prevailing order?
"Although for someone that once said that the IRA and FARC weren't terrorist organisations, this is not surprising."
I have explained in depth my views on both the IRA & FARC on many occasions on indy. You might not like them but I really cant imagine what you hope to achieve by raising this issue time after time.
Palestinian land is not occupied as such. The territories involved are disputed. There never, ever was a Palestinian state there. Why do you adopt the Palestinian propaganda view? Have they taken you for a ride? The Israeli response to this dispute is to attempt repeatedly to negotiate an end to it. The general Palestinian response (because they are run by fascists) is to murder Israeli civilians, behaviour which Amnesty International itself has called war crimes. Israel does not deliberately target Palestinian civilians: it attempts always to strike at terrorists preparing further indiscriminate attacks against Israelis. Unfortunately, the nature of military force is that often civilians are killed by accident. This cannot be avoided. The military power of the Israel Defence Forces is such that if Israel had really wanted deliberately to target Palestinian civilians, there wouldn't be many of them left by now. I know this for a fact, believe me.
"Palestinian land is not occupied as such. The territories involved are disputed. "
They are not disputed; they were occupied by Israel in 1967. This occupation is in direct breach of UN Resolutions.
"The Israeli response to this dispute is to attempt repeatedly to negotiate an end to it."
Not true, all that was on offer to the Palestinians was a fragmented Bantustan.
"The general Palestinian response (because they are run by fascists) is to murder Israeli civilians,"
How are their leaders Fascists/ Do you not think this term should apply to Israeli politicans & soldiers who carry out War Crimes?
"behaviour which Amnesty International itself has called war crimes. "
Amnesty has issued many more condemnations of Israel. I dont support the killing of civilians; you do.
"Israel does not deliberately target Palestinian civilians: it attempts always to strike at terrorists preparing further indiscriminate attacks against Israelis. Unfortunately, the nature of military force is that often civilians are killed by accident. "
Firing rockets into Apartment buildings? Bulldozing houses with people inside? Machine-gunning children? Who do you think you are fooling?
"This cannot be avoided. The military power of the Israel Defence Forces is such that if Israel had really wanted deliberately to target Palestinian civilians, there wouldn't be many of them left by now. I know this for a fact, believe me. "
Whats this? The threat of a Final Solution?
Let those who read this discussion make up their own minds on whose argument is more cogent.
Let those who read this discussion make up their own minds on whose argument is more cogent.