"Encourage consumption"? But I thought the planet is burning, Gaia is crying, and evil capitalism-driven rampant consumption is causing all of that? It's quite funny how you leftists switch the tune on whether consumptionism is desirable depending on whether we're discussing the planet or moronic Keynesian "economics".

You're not "remedying" anything, you're inflicting brand new evils on people whoose only fault is that they share a skin color with some evil people who lived centuries before they were even born, in some moronic attempt to "even the score" or something, or I dunno, punish them for sins of people who lived before they were even born, which only perpetuates the spiral of racial hatred.

But you knew that perfectly well.

So ... this will get people to write ... well? Can't complain about that ...

Yes, our closest surviving relative great apes do.

We diverged from them a very long time as well. There are no close relatives alive to us left, because we won that evolutionary competition. Unless you would prefer to start splitting homo sapiens into the currently existing three mainline genetically trees of homo sapiens development we have today (Pygmies, Sub-Saharans and everyone else).

None of our groups practice this.

P.S. "I can escape my nature" is indeed a delusion of Divinity of Man. It is a delusion because it assumes that your mind is more than you. There's even a very clear religious root of this delusion that can be defined, that being the Christianity developing dogma of Trinity and dogma of "Holy Spirit". A spark of God within each Man. Other religions that developed differently either make no such distinction in the first place, or are focused on battle between mind as merely one small part of self trying to gain control over self that is much greater than mind (i.e. Buddhism).

Ever since then, Western cultures that developed under this dogma assume that mind is something that is separate and greater than the rest of the body. "Base nature" is one of the more popular modern ways of addressing this "rest of the body". It's a fundamentalist religious assumption that led to a lot of problems. For example Western medicine long assumed that bacteria are only harmful because if you view everything as separate rather than as a harmonious hole that it actually is, everything that doesn't immediately neatly slot into "definable by mind" is assumed to be a part of "outside of divinity". And we couldn't even begin to address obesity until someone sufficiently disconnected from Christianity based mainline Western culture realized that the most "base nature" one could think of, gut bacteria actually significantly participate in "the mind".

I.e. not only is mind not separate from the body, it is merely a small part of co-evolved cognition apparatus that exists in humans mostly formed by beings that aren't not only definitionally not human, but aren't even multi-cellular.

You can rise above it far less than you can rise controlling your liver function with your mind.

Important factor: "most talent" typically means the opposite of "best talent".

In AI like in most things, it's the top talent that actually matters the most. Normal distribution is top 20% does more than 80%. More recently distribution shifted to 5/95 in many fields because modern technologies increasingly empower top performers to be even more performant.

And with AI, it's shaping to be empowering something like top 0.01% to be as performant as the rest in fields where outcome is sufficiently multiplicative. I.e. small amount of people can make a product that serves billions. Good examples of relevant fields are software where one excellent dev can deliver a product that works for billions with minimal need for even support staff, vs something like non-automatable (at this point) food production, where a top tier picker can only pick maybe a couple of times more fruit than average. Notably this is one of the fields in which AI is changing things.

Remember, I did specify lakes as a place where a ship would need a pilot.

Tell me you're a fucking idiot, without telling me you're a fucking idiot.

My, we are an aggressively stupid dipshit today.

The only thing that meaningfully matters to a cargo ship is size.
Vessels are already slow sailing to artificially constrain bandwidth and prop up rates, and have been since COVID.

Nobody on earth is trying to build FASTER cargo ships, and haven't for 50 years. Jesus Christ. If only slashdot had a "doesn't know what the fuck he's talking about" filter.

Well, no, there's no law against shipping single containers at a time either. It just means a banana costs $100,000.

We have an entire thread here where you have ecological doomsayers are telling the world's most efficient transport industry how they can do things better. Sure.

Half the size? By what math?

It can carry 5300t. That's 215x 20t containers.

The largest container ships today are in the 23000 teu range which even if we assume they can't all max out at 20t... Let's assume 10t.... Is still 230,000t or 43x larger.

What will happen? If people are stupid enough to buy it, we will run out of paper to print the money. But hey! At least people will learn proper large number terminology - like quadrillion, octillion, etc. - they will use them in daily lives, when buying bread.

Cases like this should never be brought, and the lawyers who take them are despicable; they're one reason why we can't have nice stuff, as the saying goes.

This will consume court time, consume the time of people FORCED into jury duty (for which they will not be properly compensated, and ironically, on the demand of people claiming to be improperly compensated). It will add another layer of self-defensive activity to corporate America which is already up to its collective eyeballs in such unproductive garbage only needed to hold-off lawyers... It will add a microscopic additional cost to everything (which is indeed barely measurable in itself BUT adds onto all those other microscopic cost additions that end up being, in total, significant).

Basic question for the griping bank employees: Did you ever sue the bank for the time it takes you to commute to and from the job while working in-person? Surely THAT time took longer for most people and was also uncompensated. Of course, had they tried a lawsuit for THAT time, they probably would have been laughed out of the lawyers' offices because pretty much EVERYBODY has that particular uncompensated overhead in their jobs.

The pilot will have to take into account calm areas and avoid those as well, but satellite weather forecasting makes that possible now.

In nautical terms, a pilot is a specialist in navigating through a harbor, lake, river or other difficult passage, and is not a regular member of any ship's crew. You have the right idea, but the proper job title is "navigator."

Groups are the only reason I use Facebook anymore.

No, I have no desire to see which hyperventilating cause my aunt is re-posting something about today. But all the groups that used to have their own discussion boards on their own blog sites have moved to Facebook.

So very unlike human generated code, which by contrast is always free of bugs, always perfectly implementing the spec, right out of the box, and with no QA needed!