If you were a billionaire (say 5b) with first pick of cities to take over as base for your city state for climate apocalypse, which one would you pick? Assume you have enough cunning strategic leverage and hacking of local governance going for you, ie don’t worry about execution.
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I think had a similar take I liked on a recent episode of his podcast - want something like the minimum community size that it takes to cover essential division of labor, while all still sharing a high degree of self-reliance. Hunkering down = death one way or another
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A key variable is design lifetime for surviving the collapsed state. Designing the First Foundation for 100 years of collapse is very different from designing for 1000 years of collapse
Good point! Minimum viable scale would vary by the amount of generative/specialized capability necessary to overcome whatever difficulties arise. Any random group of 500 people probably doesn't include a cryptographer, a nuclear scientist, and a biohacker. Adds overhead, though
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Upshot likely being, some types of disasters are probably unsurvivable unless someone designed their "survival community" for the disaster they planned to inflict
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