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b4ke commented on U.S. army drops requirement for high school diploma (2022)   military.com/daily-news/2... · Posted by u/walterbell
thaumasiotes · 2 years ago
>> if we implement the "service guarantees citizenship" scheme you allude to

> No I didn’t say that or allude to it

Did you forget what you put in your own comment?

>>> There would be no need for sign-on bonus, you could add additional qualifications for g.i. benefits in the form of naturalization.

b4ke · 2 years ago
Your comment is dismissive, and unhelpful. I think if you were to maybe review the concept in a less shallow manner, you would see this is voluntary, for those already in country on parole anyways. If you think you can dismiss the concept by being disrespectful of your lack of depth I’d suggest you work on comprehension with logic puzzles or the like.

All of what I said requires effort, which is not guaranteed, they are options for the motivated, which is what we want those coming to this country to hold of personal value. Have a nice day though.

b4ke commented on U.S. army drops requirement for high school diploma (2022)   military.com/daily-news/2... · Posted by u/walterbell
ransom1538 · 2 years ago
I feel like "service guarantees citizenship" was debated in 50BC in Ancient Rome. "In this framework, the blood and toil of immigrants won't just contribute to our nation's fabric, but will be the very bedrock of its defense."

We are going dark here.

b4ke · 2 years ago
I agree the sentiment of that period was dark, and giving the people who have sacrificed their homes and have made a perilous journey here hope is what they came for to begin with. There is an argument to be made for ejecting people with no prospects outside of abhorrence, this is my attempting to soften it with something to strive for.

If we don’t do things like this, what do we expect these people who need to care for themselves and potentially their families are going to be willing to do?

We also have to be serious in consideration of the current climate, and having recruiting down will just lead to drafts or forced conscriptions if the climate turns further.

I wish we wouldn’t have enabled the current belief in the country being an opportunity for foreign actors to come to without using the proper mechanisms. Unfortunately it has and we are now in a situation that is untenable. We can hold back in fear of the “invasion” or come up with plans to integrate and/or assimilate these individuals in their family that will be a benefit or leave them to languish to our detriment.

b4ke commented on U.S. army drops requirement for high school diploma (2022)   military.com/daily-news/2... · Posted by u/walterbell
atmavatar · 2 years ago
I'm a little worried that if we implement the "service guarantees citizenship" scheme you allude to, we'll be forced to fight a war against an interstellar insect race soon after.
b4ke · 2 years ago
No I didn’t say that or allude to it, voluntary conscripted amnesty. They would still have to naturalize as well, and only offer that after a sufficient period of service and all the rigors of training, ait, and actual term.

Do you believe we are not already having an inter-domain/dimensional information war with something of a nature you describe? (Kind of kidding)

b4ke commented on U.S. army drops requirement for high school diploma (2022)   military.com/daily-news/2... · Posted by u/walterbell
b4ke · 2 years ago
They should institute a voluntary conscripted amnesty/asylum for those who entered into the country and are on immigration parole. This program could allow for retroactive application to spouses/children (no extended family transferability until completion of service contract).

There would be no need for sign-on bonus, you could add additional qualifications for g.i. benefits in the form of naturalization.

It would really be a net positive as they would be forced to assimilate into our society in a way that is a net benefit at many different layers of the civil stack. The kind of people who are willing to serve the country rather than acting as a sanctioned entitlement case would be a win/win. No?

b4ke · 2 years ago
I keep hearing about it being military-aged men whom are illegally emigrating to the u.s., and low recruiting would seem like a low-hanging fruit in the form of conscription for immigrants.

I mean it also would afford their actual stations more contract labor in non-military support roles at their posts for their spouses. Also would reduce recruitment costs as you wouldn’t need so many incentives to get em through the door, reduce over-crowded shelters, and the kind of people willing to serve and improve their station are the kind of immigrants we profess to want.

b4ke commented on U.S. army drops requirement for high school diploma (2022)   military.com/daily-news/2... · Posted by u/walterbell
b4ke · 2 years ago
They should institute a voluntary conscripted amnesty/asylum for those who entered into the country and are on immigration parole. This program could allow for retroactive application to spouses/children (no extended family transferability until completion of service contract).

There would be no need for sign-on bonus, you could add additional qualifications for g.i. benefits in the form of naturalization.

It would really be a net positive as they would be forced to assimilate into our society in a way that is a net benefit at many different layers of the civil stack. The kind of people who are willing to serve the country rather than acting as a sanctioned entitlement case would be a win/win. No?

b4ke commented on How to Be More Agentic   usefulfictions.substack.c... · Posted by u/danboarder
Podgajski · 2 years ago
Cate believe success is all about luck. She said it herself.

https://sashachapin.substack.com/p/things-you-learn-dating-c...

b4ke · 2 years ago
Laboring Under Correct Knowledge
b4ke commented on Statement regarding the ongoing Sourcehut outage   outage.sr.ht/... · Posted by u/rapnie
kramerger · 2 years ago
Statements like this don't help either

"However, this is not an ordinary DDoS attack; the attacker posesses considerable resources and is operating at a scale beyond that which we have the means to mitigate ourselves."

:(

b4ke · 2 years ago
We did just (Americans and allies) Iranian proxies…non-news really when run through the lens of current political environment.

The things under attack are the message, not the attack itself. XD

b4ke commented on Engineer Used Water Pump to Get $1B Stuxnet Malware into Iranian Nuclear Plant   securityweek.com/dutch-en... · Posted by u/rmason
goles · 2 years ago
The idea that someone would use their real identity, or not disappear and get a new identity, while on covert action against America enemies is so absurd it's almost a great skit idea.

"We successfully attacked the nuclear facility!"

"Oh Van, by the way what name did you sign in the log book?"

"...Oh no"

I imagine there are a non-zero amount of readers (but not commenters) who find these stories comments extremely funny.

b4ke · 2 years ago
maybe the death was an implementation detail?
b4ke commented on Turing Complete Transformers: Two Transformers Are More Powerful Than One   openreview.net/forum?id=M... · Posted by u/georgehill
Animats · 2 years ago
Yes. Anything with finite memory is not Turing-complete, and transformers are finite-state machines. So what? Anything with infinite memory is un-buildable.

Yes, there's a school of philosophy that claims that AI cannot be built with digital hardware because it needs infinite state. Penrose is the leading exponent of this argument.[1] This isn't taken too seriously any more, now that finite machines are doing so well at AI.

This is close to theology. Man must be special, right? Only humans can play chess, right? Play Go? Pass the Turing test? Create art and music? We're running out of boxes to check. Common sense (as in getting through the next 30 seconds without a major screwup) and manipulation in unstructured settings are still in bad shape, but we only need squirrel-level AI for that.

On that subject, there was a "what does the cerebellum do" article on HN a few days ago. That's a big issue. The lower mammal brains are mostly cerebellum. The weak areas in AI at present are mostly cerebellum functions. That area has never gotten enough attention in AI research. Today, though, the amount of hardware to do a low-end mammal cerebellum equivalent doesn't seem at all unreasonable.

[1] https://sortingsearching.com/2021/07/18/roger-penrose-ai-ske...

b4ke · 2 years ago
Isn’t genetic material an infinite state machine as long as the host system has the requisite support continuity?

“Ai” is just the current moniker for a persistent assault on the original general intelligence (belief not required).

Pretty sure religion is an accurate representation of a generative intelligence, but I digress to knowing little.

“James

b4ke commented on Someone bought 26.9 BTC on Binance and sent it to Satoshi's dead wallet   blockchain.com/explorer/t... · Posted by u/400thecat
jraph · 2 years ago
Many of us have to work for decades to gather this amount of money, if even possible. Not even taking in account that we need to spend most of it to go through this amount of time.
b4ke · 2 years ago
Time is a concept of human design to demarcate wealth into units to be sold to the poor through the value exchange of labor.

You’re welcome, I’m not saying you don’t need money to participate in the experience of being a human. But there is more power in our belief in their unit (as this particular experience exposes about one store of value…. It certainly says about another.

The joker is real. ;)

u/b4ke

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