In February 2020, LessWrong hosted Coronavirus: Justified Practical Advice Thread . It was a gathering place for people to share and debate small pieces of the overall survival policy and let the wisdom of crowds lead to better outcomes than anyone could get alone.
In that spirit, I notice The Great AI Hackening is at least as imminent as covid was in January 2020, maybecloser. What specific things should people do to personally prepare? What are your unresolved cruxes that would let you answer that question?
All suggestions should be accompanied by reasoning but you don't need to be 100% convinced it's good advice, the whole point is to reason it out together.
Brangus has built Survival LLM, a local LLM and dataset that can answer-survival related questions like "how do I purify water in an emergency?". If you have money to burn you can buy it preinstalled on an airgapped, faraday-caged laptop with a solar power kit.
I am exactly the kind of nerd this thing appeals to, but I'm a little confused about when I would use it. Seems like i'll have pretty limited tools during an actual emergency and the more important thing is to figure out what I'll need ahead of time.
I'm curious to what extent the hackening can shut various things down. For example, can it cut off gas, electric power, roads, trucks, the police, etc. These may be pretty graded, e.g. partially cutting off a given thing.
There's a bunch of standard advice for all emergencies- water, toilet paper, shelf-stable food. But how much do we actually need (and then how much extra should you keep on hand for neighbors who didn't)? Most preparedness guides are for 3-7 days, is that enough?
In February 2020, LessWrong hosted Coronavirus: Justified Practical Advice Thread . It was a gathering place for people to share and debate small pieces of the overall survival policy and let the wisdom of crowds lead to better outcomes than anyone could get alone.
In that spirit, I notice The Great AI Hackening is at least as imminent as covid was in January 2020, maybe closer. What specific things should people do to personally prepare? What are your unresolved cruxes that would let you answer that question?
All suggestions should be accompanied by reasoning but you don't need to be 100% convinced it's good advice, the whole point is to reason it out together.