This is something that I noticed after doing a Google search on a new machine without uBlock Origin installed. I was unable to identify that the first link was an advertisement to a competitor's product of the brand I looked up. I remember adverts used to be highlighted really well in Google searches earlier.
If I am unable to differentiate between an ad and a search result then neither can a lot of non technical users including my parents.
I think the issue is the lack of consent. Whether a service I use is protecting my website from scrapers or feeding everything to scrapers, some of us would prefer that it takes our informed consent before doing so.
Cloudflare is explicitly a service for dropping requests, whether it’s DDoS attacks, as a WAF, or AI crawlers. It offers a lot more too, but this isn’t Cloudflare overstepping imo.
FWIW, I just set up a domain last week, and the web UI asked if I want to block AI crawlers or not.
Perhaps OP set it up agentically, and the agent didn’t pass an optional param correctly, or ticked the box for him?
Unless AGI has actual god-like powers, the owners don't have that power. Governments' and public opinion can change and are not so easy to control as you make it out to be. Is, for example, the EU AI Act or the GDPR the will of the machine owners?
The odd thing is that after the pandemic just showed what societies can enforce, somehow it all is forgotten again when it comes to who holds what power.
What is necessary are pretty basic killer robots with the capability of determining who is a friend and who is a foe. These systems already exist.
Labor is a commodity that has had a diminishing value in our current, capitalist system. That means, people who rely on their labor(most of us) instead of capital(a few), have control over less and less resources(this is already happening).
With the current trend, what generation of your grand children will have nothing at all?
If bankrupcy is allowed some reasonable number of years later (not sure if that is 7 or 10, but some reasonable time) then if your education worked out and you're in a good career path and maybe close to buying a home, etc, declaring bankrupcy would probably hurt more than help.
OTOH if you're still poor after those years and don't care about consequences of bankrupcy then maybe that's fair enough to wipe out the debt since the education clearly didn't provide value.
> declaring bankrupcy would probably hurt more than help.
It wouldn't help at all as you are typically forfeiting all but essential assets by declaring it. The only people who benefit are those with nothing to their name except perhaps the home they live in and the car they drive to work everyday.
A house and a car are an enormous amount of assets for someone 7 years out of college. Leaving bankrupts with "only" enough assets to be in the top few percent of their peers is hardly a hardship.
Bankruptcy must be filed with a court and the creditors get a say. You don’t just wake up and say “I declare bankruptcy!”. A judge would look at your income and tell you to get bent, or at best set up a payment plan. They aren’t going to let a financially solvent person get out of debt. Here’s a quick summary:
Most of the US's problems on this have little to do with putting too much priority on safety. There are countries that show that you can have a sane regulatory process and still get well priced nuclear. France from the 70s through the 90s and South Korea are the classic examples. Neither compromised on what's actually needed, but both cleared the way on redundant walls that don't demonstrate or stop anything bad from happening. You can achieve both greater nuclear safety and reduced process burden through standardization, which is how most places that have done it got it done.
Because papers are often referred to by the first author’s name, and often the first author is the primary researcher and therefore deserves the extra credit. When two or more primary authors are equally involved, they’ll often do a random ordering but annotate this so that no one thinks one did more than the others.
some journals and colleges actually have a policy to always use random order to help fight the "senior researcher gets all the credit" culture in academia.
theres a lot of cases where a prof forced their students to put them first even if they had an advisor role, or even credit someone for zero real work because they threatened to block submission and prevent the students from getting their degree.
It's very simple. I have told Claude that it's my chief of staff and that it must delegate all tasks to subagents. That as my COS it must show initiative and only come to me for vision/decision making. I have hooks further enforcing this. It works really well because I am usually working on like 12 things at once. Feels like playing simultaneous chess. The COS agent helps me context switch/orchestrate everything. Subagents have their own context window so the COS context does not get polluted/filled up with low level subtask details. COS can effectively prompt the subagents. My main session does grow and I compact it from time to time. But since all the WIP is already captured in external state, compaction of the main session does not degrade performance.
If I am unable to differentiate between an ad and a search result then neither can a lot of non technical users including my parents.
Can't wait to see ChatGPT ads
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