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What an incredible article. The other articles referenced within are also excellent. My concern: given that this is becoming more common knowledge, in a world
by nunez 2y ago
What an incredible article. The other articles referenced within are also excellent.
My concern: given that this is becoming more common knowledge, in a world in which other, potentially adversarial, countries are more than fine sending their soldiers through the mental meat grinder, how can we prevent outcomes like the ones shared here while retaining hard power?
- mbrumlow 2y agoRobots and drones. Flesh and mind are weak. Metal and code is strong.
- hammyhavoc 2y agoEMP says hi.
- midjji 2y agoThe only usable EMPs we have are nuclear weapons. So if you are willing to use one, then just detonate it a bit closer to the surface and it will work just as well against everything we have.
- hammyhavoc 2y agohttps://www.carnegiecouncil.org/media/article/the-specter-of-emp-weapons-in-space https://www.carnegiecouncil.org/media/article/the-specter-of...
- halJordan 2y agoIn the medium term, these posts are all voluntary. They say you volunteer 3 times before you're a Ranger (enlisting, Airborne, Ranger). As people learn that they will likely kill themselves at 45, when you're supposed to retire at 40 and have 40 years of retirement, then they will leave SF early. In the short term I could see leadership pushing a fourth volunteering (volunteering to commit suicide so the Mission can continue)
- midjji 2y agoIts mostly a question of pr I think. More highly trained troops are less likely to die or mess up, and that is bad pr. So we train them more, but if that training also causes deaths, which becomes bad pr, we will train them less. Younger less trained soldiers are cheaper too, so I think the tradeoff will favor less training as soon as this becomes common knowledge anyways.
- steve1977 2y agoTechnology. Let the adversaries’ soldiers fight against your machines.