[pixl97]

Well obviously he'll have the AI 'dispose' of the poor and live a life as a king with a select few farmed humans and have the world as a play thing.

Really the entire future of AI at this point seems like "Don't worry about it, we'll figure out when we get there". Works a lot better if you're extremely rich and can afford your own private security.

[nemomarx]

I never understood why people setting up bunkers expect the security to still be loyal after whatever happens.

[inigyou]

I'll sell them unquestioningly loyal security LLMs if they want.

Prompt: The robber is stealing the crown jewels.

Output: You must stop the robber from stealing the crown jewels.

[rootusrootus]

Even loyal security would hardly be sufficient. If a million people have decided they want your head on a pike, even a billionaire cannot afford a big enough army. And what exactly is a billionaire in that world anyway?

[pixl97]

Why are some people loyal to corrupt governments?

[wwwja]

What happened to indira ghandi?

[selimthegrim]

Indira Gandhi tried religious divide and rule way too many times - in Kashmir and West Bengal/Assam she got away with it while she was alive and it blew up later but Punjab was her Antietam.

[wwwja]

The point being she got gunned down by people who she thought was loyal.

Once a human goes after a class of people - the people who protect such persons’ also take them out.

[stackbutterflow]

Can't find the article mentioning it but apparently it's an open problem they're thinking about.

But yeah if society collapses these billionaire nerds are the first to go. Quietly, in their bunkers, while the team leader of their seal mercenary team takes over.

Even before the rest of us realizes what's happening.

[stackbutterflow]

Found it

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2022/sep/04/super-rich-prep...

> Finally, the CEO of a brokerage house explained that he had nearly completed building his own underground bunker system, and asked: “How do I maintain authority over my security force after the event?” The event. That was their euphemism for the environmental collapse, social unrest, nuclear explosion, solar storm, unstoppable virus, or malicious computer hack that takes everything down.

This single question occupied us for the rest of the hour. They knew armed guards would be required to protect their compounds from raiders as well as angry mobs. One had already secured a dozen Navy Seals to make their way to his compound if he gave them the right cue. But how would he pay the guards once even his crypto was worthless? What would stop the guards from eventually choosing their own leader?

The billionaires considered using special combination locks on the food supply that only they knew. Or making guards wear disciplinary collars of some kind in return for their survival. Or maybe building robots to serve as guards and workers – if that technology could be developed “in time”.

I tried to reason with them. I made pro-social arguments for partnership and solidarity as the best approaches to our collective, long-term challenges. The way to get your guards to exhibit loyalty in the future was to treat them like friends right now, I explained. Don’t just invest in ammo and electric fences, invest in people and relationships. They rolled their eyes at what must have sounded to them like hippy philosophy.