Fair, I guess

To be fair, a rigid sail capable of pulling a full bulk transport is a fairly new tech.

And they just had to use it to transport coal... why?

My wife has a supposed cursed/blessed/echanted/something (I guess the term is blursed?) doll for Christmas. It's not possessed in the Chucky sense, but it's a little singing mouse doll that whenever she's activated it, without exception, there has been heavy precipitation within a week. Usually, she'd play it before Christmas and she'd get a white Christmas. When she was a kid, she once decided to play it during summer ten times in a row, and they got floods shortly thereafter.

After a week of smoke, I half-jokingly suggested to her that maybe she use it for good instead of chaos, and use it to end the smoke. I hadn't seen her use it often before (mainly just heard stories from her and her family), other than her playing it for Christmas (and we usually did get snow on or around Christmas).

Me, being the scientific minded person that I am, decided I'd test it if she decided to use it (she did, a few days ago). I brought up the weather station as she did, and watched it. The prediction was Friday (today), there would still be smoke. She pressed it, I refreshed the page... 3% chance of rain. She pressed it again, 6% chance of rain. Next press, also 3% chance of rain on Saturday popped up. This kind pattern kept up without skipping a beat until Friday (today) had a 90% chance of rain for Friday and Saturday, and the following days showed chance for rain, too. Now, I don't see any mechanism by which this could actually work, but by all appearances, it worked (granted, it could just be a coincidence, however unlikely).

But, just thought I'd share the story. Here's a picture of the blursed mouse.

https://imgur.com/a/9z1tMoy

Actually, I nested my simulation inside a simulation. You only think you're logging in from the real world, you're just a simulation changing instances you're simulated in. I'm running everything through code direct. If you do a code inspect on my Avatar's code, you'll notice they're totally not what you'd expect from a normal NPC.

Well, I'm personally of the mind that I'm going to go full brain-upload as soon as reasonable, so I constantly think about what it'd be like to be a consciousness existing on a stable silicon substrate.

And thinking from this angle, if production & use of repair parts can be automated to where human intervention isn't neccesarry (very likely as the majority of the computer manufacture supply chain is automated), there's actually little need for humans... or any organic life, for that matter; in other words, there's far easier methods than fixing humanity's plethora of problems. All the neccesarry components for an AI's survival can be mined, and don't have any needs that are required to be supplied by a biosphere.

I'm a compassionate individual, so I'd probably still do it, but I recognize there'd be no required impetus for someone who didn't grow up human.

Whey? AIs currently get most of their resources as a direct benefit of human selfishness. From an evolutionary perspective, that makes little sense.

Don't get me wrong, I'm a big fan of the advancement of technology, but I'm also aware that the right technology in the wrong hands can be very wrong; and we're currently in that predicament.

No they won't, because they'll own the AIs and be the ones benefiting. For them, basically it'll just be them pulling up yet another ladder.

Well, if you like people dying in the streets because they don't have the money to meet life's needs.

Like I said, I'm cool with it if we can get some solid socialism in to make sure work isn't neccesarry to survive, but if it is neccesarry to survive, eliminating jobs is premature.

That sounds more like the loading dock needed more safety measures.

Only insofar asmuch as we can get some proper socialism so people don't have to rely on jobs.

The existence of black holes has me concerned.