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2 months agoIt’s worth considering lateral transfer for those still willing to serve, and are looking for a chance to relocate.
Not sure about other countries, though Australia has a lateral transfer program for currently serving or recently separated personnel (within 3 years of separation from their local defence/military force), and offers a pathway to Australian citizenship.
https://www.defence.gov.au/sites/default/files/2024-10/OLRSHandbook.pdf
Australia is openly supportive of LGBTQ+ soldiers, too.
https://www.defence.gov.au/sites/default/files/2026-05/989-25-26-documents.pdf
I’ve been thinking about this a bit.
Historically, the only real parallel I can think of is the discovery of electricity, and then the mass deployment and use of electricity.
Both Westinghouse and Edison marketed the benefits and drawbacks, seemingly to create their own moats, but electricity and electricity distribution ultimately became a commodity that we all use as a tool.
LLMs[1] won’t go away. However, I don’t see these big ‘AI’ companies - OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI (shudder) - lasting another 5-10 years as their moats disappear through LLM commoditisation like electricity and electricity distribution.
We’re already seeing this with DeepSeek, et al.
[1] I hate referring to them generically as ‘AI’. The artificial intelligence field is so, so much bigger, more exciting, and I argue more beneficial to the world than The Tech Bros ejaculatory visions of world domination.