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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
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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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Graham Linehan ?Will Face no Further Action? Over Trans Tweets That Saw Him Arrested by Armed Police... Mon Oct 20, 2025 17:33 | Will Jones
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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7This is definitely a problem if people just blindly ignore expertise for this project and similar ones that are trying to build a body of knowledge.
This is related to the development of science itself. At any given point in the past for any given subject, there would be or are many theories or views floating around. Clearly some are right, others are wrong and still others have partial truths. The beauty of science is that by doing experiments and putting theories to the test, nature itself would declare what theories were right. This system, then allowed newer and more refined theories to built on those closest to physical reality to be devised. Without this test by nature, experiments -the linchpin of science, theories would have gone off in all sorts of directions and there would be no way to tell fact from fiction.
Over time the scientific establishment built up it's peer groups, journals, insitutes and so on and these helped the process.
Now it should be clear here that we are talking primarly about physics, chemistry, geology and biology to a lesser degree. When we come to the so called softer sciences of social theory and or economics, nature does not provide the truth in so clear cut ways and the outcomes are heavily influenced by human nature or the human mind and therefore these fields were much slower to develop.
In the last few years as the corporate influence has touched more and more areas of sciences, the various expertise areas have been tarnished by the influence of money and as a result they have become much more unscientific and corrupted. This is particularly so in the area of medical and biotechnology fields where it is now almost impossible to find truly independent review of new research, since many of the people either have links to the corporations likely to benefit, either in the form of research grants, company shares or positions within the company.
Having said that, the reasons for the recent trends towards ignoring expertise and the development of anti-elitism, are not because of the corporate influence in science alone, but because of the wider changes that have taken place in society over the past 100 years or so. It is more to do with ignorance and lack of understanding and the narcistic nature of our culture, where people are increasingly selfish, self-absorbed, vain and attention seeking and are unable to tolerate the pain of not getting their way. This total focus on the self, means people are no longer interested in the substance of things, reason no longer applies. Thus people are famous for being famous, less for what they did or their achievements. And so someone who is actually quite expert in a given field is judged not by content of what they have to say and if it is logical, but by their appearences.
That of course is not to say that we should take as gospel what anyone who is trotted out and presented as an expert. We should of course listen to the content. But as I said, actual knowledge, reasoning and maturity of opinion are not a major currency.
Therefore the concerns of Larry Sanger are very real. There must be some mechanism to chaff fact from fiction.
when people use material on wikipedia to make a statement or (back-up) an argument.
but surely the point of wikipedia was to not to have one person/expert write history...(because not all "Experts" are actually experts) although is he saying now that because of all the voices now _facts_ are being swamped... (if theres such thing as _facts_ )
what is wikipedia useful for then? a quick intro to a subject ie. like what an encylopedia is supposed to be... and aren't people realizing more and more you need multtiple sources on everything...? so use wikipedia (or indymedia) as a source but not just wikipedia?(or indymedia ) so all is good with wikiedia?
''Governance is a certified Hard Problem(TM), and at the extremes, co-creation, openess, and scale are incompatible. The Wikipedia's principle advantage over other methods of putting together a body of knowledge is openess, and from the outside, it looks like the Wikipedia's guiding principle is “Be as open as you can be; close down only where there is evidence that openess causes more harm than good; when this happens, reduce openess in the smallest increment possible, and see if that fixes the problem.” Lather, rinse, repeat.
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This pattern means that there will always be problems with governance on the Wikipedia, by definition''
found at
http://laughingmeme.org/archives/002682.html
source (but site currently down)
http://www.corante.com/many/archives/2005/01/03/k5_article_on_wikipedia_antielitism.php
i've just looked at their article on "red hair".
they say its an irish or british thing total crap.
their soldiers went overtime arresting iraqi red heads looking for saddam's number two whom you'll remember - was a red head.
i wish there was a counter-wikipedia where all the challenged articles were collated.
their take on star trek is bolloxed too. lame theology, i'm sure the vulcans didn't really believe that.
But why not take part in editing the article that you object to in order to correct the problems that you see? That''s the point and advantage of Open Publishing. You don't just have to complain about it ineffectively, you can /do/ something about it.
Wikipedia can easily be edited.
I'd go easy on the rewriting of the red hair origins though.
Many in the Middle East have red hair, it's believed to be a genetic inheritance from the time of the Crusades. So don't get mad, get editing.