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Apocalypse Prepping - Concise SHTF guide to prepare for AGI doomsday
prepper65

It is a prepping guide, like it says in the title and introduction page. Prepping is the practice of preparing for disasters. Are you sure you actually opened the link I posted? Here is a PDF printout of the site: https://docdro.id/nnIJ16G 

Or are you literally just downvoting because you got tired after one click?

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2Dagon
Got tired after a few minutes of looking for actual content.  your PDF contains some advice, but not much that seems AGI-threat-specific.  Still doesn't seem particularly well-suited to this site.
Apocalypse Prepping - Concise SHTF guide to prepare for AGI doomsday
prepper*64

The audience is the general public. That is anyone who has the attention span and is smart enough to read what I wrote, without feeling the need to disregard the idea out of comfort, personal conviction, laziness, etc. I was toying with the idea of writing a much shorter version for stupid people. But then I think that is just an exercise in futility. And also I don't really like the idea of stupid people gaining such an existential advantage.

Unfortunately I am not allowed to create another post the next 7 days, due to low karma. I have written a new post ... (read more)

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Apocalypse Prepping - Concise SHTF guide to prepare for AGI doomsday
prepper*63

Thanks for your reply.

To the point of contention, I believe it is actually fairly well illustrated on the website, that it is a fallacy in itself to make it up to such nuances and to demand proof of any particular of the possible outcomes in the future to shape one's actions, if it pertains to the question of whether or not you should do your bests to mitigate the risk in ensuring your basic survival.

An unsurvivable AGI outcome is just one of the many possible scenarios. Although you can speculate about the details of how it could play out (partial extermi... (read more)

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2RHollerith
Well, sure, I see the logic in that. Unlike you, however, my probability that (even if I started preparing in earnest now) I would survive an AGI that has taken control of most human infrastructure and has the capacity to invent new technologies is so low that my best course of action (best out of a bad lot) is to put all my efforts into preventing the creation of the AGI. I arrive at that low probability by asking myself what would I do (what subgoals I would pursue) if I assigned zero intrinsic value to human life and human preferences and I could invent powerful new technologies (and discover new scientific laws that no human knows about) and my ability to plan were truly superhuman. I.e., I put myself in the "shoes" of the AGI (and I reflected on that vantage point over many days). In other words, by the time AGI research has progressed to the stage that things like my supply of food, water and electricity get disrupted by an AGI, it is almost certainly already too late for me on my models.
2RHollerith
OK. Which is the audience you are hoping to influence? Are you hoping to alert preppers to the dangers of AI or are you hoping to get people who already know AI is dangerous (like many of us here) to prepare themselves for shortages and mobs of desperate unprepared people? (It would be a bad idea IMO to try to engage both audiences with a single set of web pages.)
The literature on aluminum adjuvants is very suspicious. Small IQ tax is plausible - can any experts help me estimate it?
prepper*40

Only live-attenuated vaccines may (sometimes) not need adjuvants. Plus you sometimes have other ingredients acting as adjuvants that are not declared as such. For example mercury is declared as a preservative, not adjuvant, but it performs the same function. Also as of recent they started removing constituents from the ingredient list, that were part of the manufacturing process (e.g. culture media), but are not "intended" part of the final product. If a food manufacturer washes potatoes with iodine for example in order to clean them, he is not required to... (read more)

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