To put out a hacker prize for laid off employees to target big AI companies for data center elimination.

Only somewhat correct. Unemployed because the AI companies convinced the CEOs that they can cut headcount and be fine.

And with 50% of the software engineers in 2019 now unemployed (even among senior level developers) they'll have you reviewing that code for minimum wage.

I trust Weather Underground instead- it's private citizens, not government propaganda, and it's far more accurate.

Post-COVID, I don't trust governments or corporations to do science. I saw too much statistical abuse, p-hacking, politics, and outright lying about the scientific method to trust federal funding OR corporate funding of science.

Science is best done by private citizens funding their own experiments with outside jobs, not academic peer-review cancel culture bubbles.

Jeez .. all of these self-centered entitled brats thinking the world revolves around them. No one has to change for you. Life isn't fair, get over expecting it to be. 90% of you will probably use a free AI to write it anyway.

Or, accept the reality that you don't have to go to college, and you don't have to go to a particular one just because your guidance councilor/parents/friends think you should. Grow a pair and chart your own course through life. College is only required for a few fields, and even those have workarounds. No one says you have to go full time and as soon as you graduate either. Or get a degree, going part time and taking specific classes can be far cheaper and may not even require the standard application. And you might find an employer to pay for it via a tuition reimbursement program. Aren't you the generation that wants to change things??

However, I will acknowledge that the traditional essay is an idiotic requirement. The only thing the essay should ask is 'Discuss what you expect to be the cost of college and how are you going to pay for it'. If someone can't do that simple task, they probably aren't smart enough to go to college in the first place.

...an article worth considering from Princeton University's Zeynep Tufekci:

We Were Badly Misled About the Event That Changed Our Lives

Since scientists began playing around with dangerous pathogens in laboratories, the world has experienced four or five pandemics, depending on how you count. One of them, the 1977 Russian flu, was almost certainly sparked by a research mishap. Some Western scientists quickly suspected the odd virus had resided in a lab freezer for a couple of decades, but they kept mostly quiet for fear of ruffling feathers.

Yet in 2020, when people started speculating that a laboratory accident might have been the spark that started the Covid-19 pandemic, they were treated like kooks and cranks. Many public health officials and prominent scientists dismissed the idea as a conspiracy theory, insisting that the virus had emerged from animals in a seafood market in Wuhan, China. And when a nonprofit called EcoHealth Alliance lost a grant because it was planning to conduct risky research into bat viruses with the Wuhan Institute of Virology â" research that, if conducted with lax safety standards, could have resulted in a dangerous pathogen leaking out into the world â" no fewer than 77 Nobel laureates and 31 scientific societies lined up to defend the organization.

So the Wuhan research was totally safe, and the pandemic was definitely caused by natural transmission â" it certainly seemed like consensus.

We have since learned, however, that to promote the appearance of consensus, some officials and scientists hid or understated crucial facts, misled at least one reporter, orchestrated campaigns of supposedly independent voices and even compared notes about how to hide their communications in order to keep the public from hearing the whole story. And as for that Wuhan laboratoryâ(TM)s research, the details that have since emerged show that safety precautions might have been terrifyingly lax.

Full article

Or better yet, since you're apparently able to tell the difference between a webcrawler and a human in the log, keep the site public for humans but start sending invoices to the IP Address Holders of web crawlers.

The answer is no, and anybody who incorporates AI Generated Code into an existing human programmed codebase is just looking to quantify their job existence by fixing bug tickets.

woke:dei::bigoted:genocide

Given that the college board now is inciting students to riot through their curriculum suggestions and tests, I don't think they're exactly innocent.

Every revolution has increased the number of hours the average bottom person on the totem pole needs to work to earn food/clothing/shelter.

Hunter-gatherer- 4 hours per day
Agriculture- 5 hours per day
Feudalism- 6 hours per day
Mercantilism- 7 hours per day
Capitalism- 8 to 10 hours per day

The "current crisis" is manufactured and amplified externally. Nobody is doxxing Tesla owners with maps using Molotov cocktails as map cursors or burning lots full of vehicles in for service in some way that is a function of whether Musk is personally present on the factory floor vs doing something else he thinks is vital to our economic survival. All of it is ginned up hate based on the politics surrounding the pruning of vast left slush funds and debt-funded waste that has to go away. That's an entire industry with vested interests, and acting against it certainly brings out the coordinated hate, attacks on stock value, media smearing, and of course thousands of people who now say he's a nazi though they can't actually articulate why they think that.

No, him being "on the factory floor" or off it doesn't precipitate some "current crisis," except in the sense that entrenched interests currently having their oxen gored by drying up things like the NGO money laundering industry are doing their best to try to wreck the company to make a point.

Most hallucinations, whether human or AI, are born out of lying to yourself. Most of what is being fed to the LLM models is already pure bullshit.