{"id":68395,"date":"2024-05-27T18:06:51","date_gmt":"2024-05-27T23:06:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=68395"},"modified":"2024-05-27T18:06:51","modified_gmt":"2024-05-27T23:06:51","slug":"the-masters-checklists-for-collapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=68395","title":{"rendered":"The Master\u2019s Checklists for Collapse"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Master\u2019s Checklists for Collapse<\/a><\/h3>\n

An A.I. assistant provides truly useful advice about practical resilience and “inner work.”<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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I am continuing my investigation into A.I. as a potentially helpful resource for humane purposes like\u00a0philosophizing<\/a>\u00a0and promoting collapse-awareness. So far, so good!<\/p>\n

I am fancifully calling the A.I. system \u201cMaster,\u201d after the Go-playing program\u00a0AlphaGo<\/a>, which played online under that name when it demonstrated its prowess by winning 60 games in a row against the world\u2019s strongest players in 2017.<\/p>\n

Here, I asked \u201cMaster\u201d how it would advise people to prepare for collapse, and then I asked about the \u201cinner work\u201d of coping with unimaginable loss. The responses are correct, useful, and complete, based on what I know about the field of collapse awareness. This is quite amazing!<\/p>\n

What follows is an abridgement of the A.I.\u2019s responses. (It can be rather chatty.) I have emphasized words and concepts that I feel are significant. An unabridged transcript is available in\u00a0this Google doc<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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David B.<\/strong><\/h5>\n

How would you advise someone to prepare for the collapse of global industrial civilization?<\/p>\n

Master<\/strong><\/h5>\n

I think it’s wise for individuals and communities to build\u00a0resilience and self-reliance<\/strong>\u00a0to be prepared for potential disruptions or crises, whether smaller-scale or society-wide. Here are some general suggestions:<\/p>\n

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  • Develop practical skills<\/strong>\u00a0like gardening, food preservation, first aid, repair\/maintenance of key tools and equipment, etc.<\/li>\n
  • Strengthen local community connections<\/strong>\u00a0and mutual aid networks.<\/li>\n
  • Work toward self-sufficiency<\/strong>\u00a0in food, water, energy and essential supplies to the extent possible.<\/li>\n
  • Get out of debt<\/strong>\u00a0and have some emergency savings or barterable assets to help weather economic instability.<\/li>\n
  • Take care of your health<\/strong>, both physical and mental.<\/li>\n
  • Consider living in a location that may be less vulnerable<\/strong>\u00a0to major disruptions in supply chains, infrastructure, public safety, etc.<\/li>\n
  • Be prepared to adapt<\/strong>, problem-solve, and make do with less.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

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    The Master\u2019s Checklists for Collapse An A.I. assistant provides truly useful advice about practical resilience and “inner work.” I am continuing my investigation into A.I. as a potentially helpful resource for humane purposes like\u00a0philosophizing\u00a0and promoting collapse-awareness. So far, so good! I am fancifully calling the A.I. system \u201cMaster,\u201d after the Go-playing program\u00a0AlphaGo, which played online […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[150,34644,34645],"class_list":["post-68395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-survival-2","tag-collapse","tag-david-b","tag-den-of-the-feral-mystic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68395"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68396,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68395\/revisions\/68396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}