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Indymedia Ireland is a volunteer-run non-commercial open publishing website for local and international news, opinion & analysis, press releases and events. Its main objective is to enable the public to participate in reporting and analysis of the news and other important events and aspects of our daily lives and thereby give a voice to people.

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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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MV Rachel Corrie prisoners to arrive home tomorrow

category international | rights, freedoms and repression | press release author Sunday June 06, 2010 14:53author by Freda H - IPSC Report this post to the editors

The Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign has just recieved word that the five Irish prisoners from the MV Rachel Corrie, which was hijacked yesterday by Israeli forces, are due to arrive in Dublin airport at 11.20am tomorrow morning. There will be a welcoming committee to meet them and press conference to follow at 3pm in The Central Hotel, Exchequer Street, Dulin 2.
MV Rachel Corrie being boarded by Israeli Navy
MV Rachel Corrie being boarded by Israeli Navy

Freda Hughes of the IPSC said, " We are relieved that the prisoners from the MV Rachel Corrie, but we must remember that they were illegally kidnapped and taken against their will to Israel."

The boat was the last remaining vessel of the Gaza Freedom Flotilla, a 40-nation effort to break through Israel's illegal blockade. The Corrie's 11 passengers, mostly Irish and Malaysian include Nobel Peace Prize laureate Mairead Maguire, former UN Assistant Secretary General, Denis Halliday, Member of the Malaysian Parliament Mohd Nizar Zakaria. The other Irish on board are Fiona Thompson from Dundalk, and Derek and Jenny Graham from Mayo.

The boarding by Israeli forces is in defiance of a direct call from the Irish Government, which had formally requested Israel allow the ship to reach Gaza. On 1 June, the Irish parliament also passed an all-party motion condemning Israel's use of military force against civilian aid ships, and demanding "an end to the illegal Israeli blockade of Gaza."

Freda Hughes, spokesperson for the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign said: "The significance of this flotilla of aid was two-fold; its intended purpose was to deliver much needed supplies to the people of Gaza and to break the ongoing illegal blockade of the Gaza Strip. This blockade, which has gone on for over three years amounts to collective punishment of 1.5 million people - condemned to face enforced and avoidable poverty, human rights abuses and appalling hardships - often just because of where they were born. It is the duty of every right thinking individual of conscience to ensure that such inhuman treatment is no longer allowed and ignored by the world."

Ms Hughes continued: "The Rachel Corrie remained committed to this purpose and rightly rejected the Israeli offer to reroute to Ashdod . To accept this offer would have been to legitimise the siege of Gaza. The IPSC calls for the immediate lifting of the illegal blockade, and the granting of an autonomous sea-port in Gaza that would allow the people of Gaza open and unfettered communication and access to the international community."

Ms Hughes concluded by urging the Irish government to sanction Israel. "Earlier this week the Irish Parliament passed a unanimous motion stating that if the Rachel Corrie was not allow safe passage to Gaza, then the Irish Governmnent would take "further diplomatic measures" against Israel. Th Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign hope that the Irish government is as good as its word on this issue and immediately takes diplomatic action against the rogue state of Israel."

The 1200-ton cargo ship was purchased through a special fund set up by former Malaysian Prime Minister and Perdana Global Peace Organisation (PGPO) chairman Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad. Its cargo included hundreds of tons of medical equipment and cement, as well as paper from the people of Norway, donated to UN-run schools in Gaza.

Notes for Editors:

Passengers aboard the Rachel Corrie include:

Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Ireland

Denis Halliday, former UN Assistant Secretary General, Ireland

Derek Graham, Free Gaza Ireland

Jenny Graham, Free Gaza Ireland

Fiona Thompson, film-maker, Ireland

Mohd Jufri Bin Mohd Judin, journalist, Malaysia

Ahmed Faizal bin Azumu, human rights worker, Malaysia

Matthias Chang, attorney, author & human rights worker, Malaysia

Shamsul Akmar Musa Kamal, PGPO representative, Malaysia

Abdul Halim Bin Mohamed, journalist, Malaysia

The Hon. Mohd Nizar Zakaria, Parit Member of Parliament, Malaysia

Related Link: http://www.ipsc.ie

The Rachel Corrie seen from Ashdod yesterday
The Rachel Corrie seen from Ashdod yesterday

Mairead Maguire before embarking on her journey with the MV Rachel Corrie
Mairead Maguire before embarking on her journey with the MV Rachel Corrie

author by opus diablos - the regressive hypocrite partypublication date Sun Jun 06, 2010 15:44author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Any news on whats happening with the cargo and the boat?Have they stripped out the cement?What are the terms for the ship's return and when?
Scuse my ignorance if its already posted.

author by linkerpublication date Mon Jun 07, 2010 00:38author address author phone Report this post to the editors

In further attempts to force the irish govt to break diplomatic ties, I suggest ye invite the Turkish, Nicaraguan, South African and Ecuadorian representatives in Ireland to explain the hows and whys of their countries cutting of ties, recalling of diplomats etc...

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3897773,00.html

author by Wally Bpublication date Mon Jun 07, 2010 04:05author address author phone Report this post to the editors

I must say that I admire nobel laureate Mairead Maguire for her personal commitment to peaceful and imaginative campaigning. It is a long time - over thirty years - since she spontaneously responded to the deaths of her relatives after a fleeing IRA man was shot by soldiers and crashed into a group of children.

Some people would rest on their laurels, but Mairead steadily campaigns. Her actions shame those of us who gaze from the sidelines.

 
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