[ExI] My review of Eliezer Yudkowsky's new book

[spike at rainier66.com]

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From: extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org> On Behalf Of Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat
Subject: Re: [ExI] My review of Eliezer Yudkowsky's new book

On Sun, Oct 5, 2025 at 8:44 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>>... So... what happens if suddenly your credit card doesn't work and we 
> have no trade medium?  What do we do now, coach?

>...New trade mediums naturally come into existence.  Barter, if nothing else....for instance owning a manufacturing setup that only you know how to operate or that requires cryptographic keys to function which are not worth the compute capacity for an adversary to crack.

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Cool!

I teach scouts in Emergency Preparedness, which is first aid and survivalism aimed at earthquake and storms, plausible natural disasters, but specifically not designed around survival of nuclear war or anarchy (teenage boys would have too much fun with that (for it plays too much into our underlying reptilian nature (which I consider unproductive or counterproductive (because too much is too unpredictable.))))

Their emergency preparedness scenarios always assumes society is still functional with the same wishes for mutual well-being that we now hold, a desire to rebuild and move on.  So Adrian demonstrated an example of thinking thru a plausible Singularity survival notion.

May I suggest that we understand what happened: a superhuman AI emerged, decided it didn't need us, so it wrecked our trade system, lotta humans perished, but survivors recognized we are not helpless chimps out here, we can collectively fight back.  We would start by sacrificing anything we have which computes, ja?  Wreck every computer, every cell phone, everything and anything which could influence other humans to join it in its quest to destroy humanity.  Adrian?  What say ye?

spike