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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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120 years ago, without posters or declarations or appeals to Bloody God Almighty, 5 anarchists whose names are forgotten died whilst demanding an 8 hour day at the hands of the state authorities in Chicago USA . Let us wait and see how many protesters for May Day 2006 in the USA are reported on RTE and the Irish commercial media.
will it be 300?
will it be 120,000?
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Trabajadores, No Terroristas! :: Workers, Not Terrorists!
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Future voters
Episcopal Church
Latin@s (the 2 guys didn't want their faces seen)
Stop Slavery
Dia de Acción
Filled with some of the most wonderful people. The march was always going to be big, but I can't judge just how massive it was. Watching down Wilshire from Vermont back to MacArthur Park (the start point) for over 2 and a half hours there was no sign of the end of the march. The march started at 3pm officially but there were hundreds of early protests and demonstrations. Over 27% of the kids in LA Unified school district ditched class despite the presence of "lockdowns" in their schools.
But most of the people on the march were older.
Latinos and Latinas have a lot to be proud of and deserve better than being criminalised for their hard work, hospitability and massive contributions to culture in the USA. If I were latino I'd have felt very proud today at seeing this march.
Lower gas prices
Voice of youth
Being human is not a crime
We want immigration reform
La Raza
Filled with amazing people. There were easily 1 million people on the streets in two separate marches. My photos are all from the later march on Wilshire.
Proud Mexicans
Human Rights have no borders
If you think she's "illegal"....
OK for him to fight your wars but not stay? And she's NOT your slave!
Whole families and lives would be ripped apart by HR4437
in the sad "Minutemen" and "Save Our State" organisations. Looking at the marchers there's no question who'd make the better citizen.
Front of the march
All we want
March stretches back past Hancock Bldg., back to McArthur park
I wonder who picked the fruit I'm eating
March just keeps coming
Are the guys who hang out in front of building supply / hardware megastores and hope for a chance at some work. People come by and pick them up in trucks. Sometimes it's a suburbanite from the valley that needs some help, sometimes its a labor contractor that delivers them to a site. Sometimes they get paid ok. Sometimes they're ripped off and can do nothing about it. They're desparate for work and when a gaucho like me walks past a hardware store they get excited until they realise that nothing's doing. I have friends whose relatives do this work, day-in, day-out with no worker's rights, no health-insurance. It's great to see a public show of strength, dignity and beauty like this. Si se puede!
Let Day Laborers Live the American Dream
Proud marchers
Legalisation NOW!
Zapata's revolutionary spirit lives on
Whose homeland?
I got sore standing up on top of various things to get pictures and moved around. People were generally very happy to be photographed although some people were upset by it. I made sure to go after them and let them know I wouldn't use their picture. Their thanks was almost painful to receive. I've been on a lot of demonstrations and this was one of the nicest and friendliest and funnest ever. It's sickening to think of the 12 million people caught in a legal limbo, exploited and deprived of the right to go to college, to vote and now if HR3347/Sensenbrenner is passed, the right to basic aid from churches and charities. Anyone helping them would face severe penalties.
Gay Latin@s, Immigrant and non-Immigrant WORKERS UNITE!
We pay taxes too!
We are workers, not criminals
Multi-ethnic, united
Amnistia General
The power of this block in Los Angeles, California and the Southwest shouldn't be underestimated. The streets were quiet, quieter even than on a Sunday.... except for down around the march where they reverberated to drumming, percussion, chanting and whistling. There was an in credible Brazilian samba band, there were innumberable groups chanting "Si se puede!" (yes, we can!) and jumping in the air. The republicans, in searching for another distraction, have made a big mistake in antagonizing this power group. Yes, there's lots of "illegals", but there are plenty more "legal" immigrants who see a callous, reactionary attack on their fellow humans when it happens.
Luckily the Democrats and Catholic leader's calls to have the march but not the Boycott were ignored despite the agonized worrying over "a possible backlash" by the democrat spinmeisters on National Public Radio.
My Cousin was SHOT defending this country. We are ALL immigrants
Yoooo-sti---seee---yaaaa!!!
WARNING: Another educated Latino!
Don't criminalize seekers of the American dream
FMLN -- Political party that fought against US dictatorship in El Salvador
I'll probably put the remainder up on LA Indymedia, but although they're good people they don't use Oscailt so it's harder to use than Indymedia Ireland.
Immigrants are the backbone of the economy
Stop racist HR4437
Filipino Worker's Center
Governor of California: You are an immigrant too! When did working become a crime?
Hard working people
thanks for the report and pics. really good. i read in the irish times yesterday that the irish coalition wasnt supporting the actions, stay away from work school etc. what happened in LA? did a lot of irish participate?
There was no official Irish contingent but I saw two people with shamrocks. However I don't keep in touch with many other Irish people here, so I don't know if there was a larger contingent that I missed. I do have a photo of people with a french sign too.
There's been near complete silence on the radio about Irish "illegals".
Great piece in the NY Daily News about the success of the boycott despite the calls for "prudence" from the leadership of churches, unions, politics.
the "official" representatives of the irish "illegals" scabbed on the strike. todays IT : "the irish lobby for Immigration Reform opposed yeterdays boycott as counter-productive and provocative".
maybe they are looking for a special deal? they wont get it. right wing republican WASPs hate irish catholics just as much as they do mexicans. even the supposed irish american politicians like peter king have supported the anti immigrant legislation.
An article from the LA Times by Anna Gorman, Marjorie Miller and Mitchell Landsberg, Times Staff Writers on May 2nd. A pretty good rundown of major events of the day including the "troqueros" boycott of the port facilities (over 90% stayed away). It misses out the absolutely major story though, which is that people decided to boycott against the advice of any of the leaders, whther clerical or political. That includes Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa who turned up supporting the march but not the boycott.
hey hey hÉireann, great photos, thanks for participating & being here in Aztlan.
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>>right wing republican WASPs hate irish catholics just as much as they do mexicans
not quite. not really at all, actually. I mean, right wing republican wasps hate EVERYone and EVERY thing human, including themselves, this is true yes. but while the Irish may be the "n-----s" of Europe, here in the US, white skin and European ties--even to oppressed, colonized histories within Europe--still translate to a vast amount of privilege compared to the peoples of color here. it's really a shame that there wasn't more support from Irish immigrants; I think it is probably a reflection of this eurocentric privilege.
A nice essay detailing the subsumption of Irish words and phrases into common US usage as a result of the early criminal activities of Irish emigrants to the USA: