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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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Lord Brooke and the Malthusian Mind Virus in Our Time Mon Sep 29, 2025 07:00 | Tilak Doshi
Lord Brooke's wild House of Lords speech about abortion, gays and climate change wasn't just odd ? Tilak Doshi shows it's the same old Malthusian doom-mongering that elites have been peddling for centuries.
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News Round-Up Mon Sep 29, 2025 01:10 | Richard Eldred
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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Farage?s Mass Deportation Plan Is Racist, Says Starmer Sun Sep 28, 2025 19:00 | Richard Eldred
Sir Keir Starmer has slammed Reform UK's mass deportation plan as "racist", warning that Nigel Farage's idea of kicking out hundreds of thousands of legal immigrants would "tear Britain apart".
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Fury After Woke NHS Supports First-Cousin Marriages Despite Risk of Birth Defects ? and Oppression A... Sun Sep 28, 2025 17:00 | Richard Eldred
The NHS is under fire for defending cousin marriage as a cultural "benefit" despite the serious health risks, claiming it brings "stronger extended family support systems and economic advantages".
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Is the Tech Giant Who Gave Blair ?257 Million in Line for Huge ID Card Contract? Sun Sep 28, 2025 15:00 | Richard Eldred
A cronyism row has hit the Government after it emerged Tony Blair secretly lobbied for his tech billionaire backer, who gave him ?257 million and could rake in millions from Labour's digital ID cards.
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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4Just a note to say that I facilitated a workshop on "Isolation" for Cooley Environmental and Health Group about 4 or 5 years ago in The Strand Hotel, Omeath. Contrary to expectations it turned out to be one of our highest quality workshops. Unlike your event we concentrated on isolation at a personal level. A few years later we ran a winter workshop about "Bullying." There are obvious connections there at both a personal and political level. There is a clear qualitative difference between solitude and isolation. Who was it that said, "I want to be alone."? We considered things, too, from a religious perspective drawing simple fundamental lessons from The Book of Job. Of course, at all times, I am always mindful of the position of the mentally ill and mental patients. Isolation plays a big part in our oppressed and circumscribed existence.
wanted to be left alone.
I still have trouble with that designation of the sensitive or delicate emotionally being classified as 'mentally ill'.
When you think of what passes for mental health in our sick society, a robust ego that pays no heed to who or what it tramples to get to its self-serving goals 'because we're worth it', up to and including falsifying information to engineer wars for the theft of resources and enslavement of populations(well, the ones that survive the onslaughter)I still think our terminology of diagnostics in the area of mental health needs something more than a tweak.If Blair Bush Rumsfeld and their collaborators are sane, I need a tranquilliser.If those who happily jet off to luxury enclaves in the heart of exotic poverty created by our trade policies are not mentally crippled by their blinkers, then I may need restraint. Mental instability in a falsely concretised value-system is a symptom of a healthy allergy to dogmatic 'recieved wisdom' bullshit. The first sign of mental health is a critical attitude to authority that seeks recognition without validation, other than by itself
I reckon homo(self-designated, again)sapiens is a bit of a mentally sick monkey.When he fell out of the tree because he hadn't the ambidexterity to hold his banana and the branch simultaneously like a healthy simian, he landed on his head and did a bit of collateral damage.
Evolution, as darwin, sketched it, is our attempt to repair that damage.Methinks the wrong monkeys are in the zoos.And many of those classified(and propagandised into believing it by white coats and authoritative manner)as ill are the healthy ones recoiling from the excesses of our pereverted values.
We confuse a robust ego for a healthy mind. Not wise, smart, or ultimately sane. Health, mental or physical, is always a matter of delicate balance, and for a healthy individual there will always be degrees and cycles on the way to maturity.Hence the turbulance of adolescence as we seek to accommodate our sensed intelligence to the blatant contradictions in our petrified, atrophied, ossified and fossilised culture.only the lie of cosmetic change can be legitimised. Health is then defined as a successful adjustment to these norms, or(as in both western and eastern gulags)denied when we fail to adjust and conform.Hence our society of masks and lies.
Hi Opus
When I saw my name missing on the latest comments page I thought my comment had been hidden. Anyway glad to hear from you. Yes it was Garbo although I suspect her remark was more for public consumption to boost her image rather than a sincere personal statement. But I am not sure. Maybe she was being sincere. Anyway it was in character to some extent at least. A lot of the euphemism and bullshit language surrounding mental illness gets on my nerves and I look for the simplest way through the bullshit. Naturally a lot of people do not like my language. A patient in my book is anyone who is receiving medical treatment from a doctor. A mental patient is one who is receiving medical treatment for a mental illness. A mentally ill person in my vocabulary is anyone who has received a diagnosis from a psychiatrist or anyone who is likely to receive such a diagnosis in the near future. The rights and the wrongs of it are not an issue with me and I agree with you. In my book, and in yours, it is clearly a mad mad world. But I rarely ever talk about that. You are able to do that far more eloquently than I. I see it as my function to advocate on a daily basis for mental patients and the mentally ill, an increasingly large and fraught category of people. I would welcome your advice. Really I would welcome advice from any quarter. But spare me a lot of bullshit.
I recognise what you are saying about individuals suffering the psychological turmoil of what we call mental illness, and have personal experience of dealing with people in various states of disintegration, sometimes requiring chemical or physical intervention. These are real problems, and I am not advocating we desert such individuals in some denial of their predicament. More trying to rebalance the focus to include the social drivers of the symptoms.Formally I have big respect for the likes of Ivor Browne, people who can see over their academic and professional partitions to larger set of definitions.
My case, such that it is, is that our societies are sick, neurotic, and at their furthest extreme when all restraint is abandoned, perverted and psychotic to a pathological degree. Witness the torture, lies, robbery, rape, kidnapping destruction unleashed every time we unleash the dogs of our resource wars(now noticable by the public refusal to acknoledge they are going on at all) as we return to the justifications of our actions on humanitarian grounds, bringing 'democracy' and human rights to the Balkans(nobody remembers the self-serving Deutchland pulling the loose thread of Slovenia to start the unravelling of a delicate balance), Iraq, et al.
Re-run of the 'civilising mission' of the white man bringing civilisation to the heathen savage, even as we(Europe) enslaved, plundered, massacred and prostituted these 'savages' who had often a less martial analysis of the highest achievements of our species.
T'aint simple(otherwise we would not be dealing with 'complexes' of psychological problems), and any statement can be misinterpreted or misrepresented by those who have an aversion to some of the ramifications of non-orthodox analysis. I am sure you are familiar with our capacity for self-delusion, we dont have to look hard for examples in public life.I'm listening to the same geniuses every day instructing us as to how we are to extract us from a mess they created, their credibility by no means damaged by their failures, and their bullshit unchallenged by the fourth estate pundits. The conditions these nuts will now inflict on the less egotistic and greedy will do nothing to lessen stress and poverty which will fedd into crime, alcohol and hard drug self-medication which is going to increase your own workload.This, as I said is neither smart nor sane.
I'm not financially capable of making the trip to Vienna, but if anything is going on in Ireland next year that you think I might be able to give any useful feedback to I can try and make it. I'm out west, so particularly anything this side of the shannon is more reachable.