[kyleschiller]

It's not just a piece of land, he went through a fairly extensive process to gain citizenship as well.

I think Sam's original statement on this was from the New Yorker piece a while back [0], where Peter describes him as "not particularly religious, but he is culturally very Jewish—an optimist yet a survivalist, with a sense that things can always go deeply wrong”, I don't think preparing for collapse is just a joke. Earlier in the article, Sam says "I have guns, gold, potassium iodide, antibiotics, batteries, water, gas masks from the Israeli Defense Force"

As for the sheep farm, I don't know any more than you, but I'm sure a billionaire going to these lengths is also capable of preparing a decent shelter.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/10/10/sam-altmans-ma...

[everdev]

In the article, his fairly extensive process was signing a document in Santa Monica and promising to invest in NZ startups. They claim he had only spent 10 days in the country prior and hasn't been there since.