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rogert2 t1_j7r3jq5 wrote

Relevant: The wealthy are plotting to leave us behind

Accurate summary by a redditor:

> people who were asked by billionaires to go to a meeting and advise them on what to do to keep staff loyal in their bunkers when money becomes worthless

Supporting quotes from the source:

> I got invited to a super-deluxe private resort to deliver a keynote speech... it was by far the largest fee I had ever been offered for a talk > > I just sat there at a plain round table as my audience was brought to me: five super-wealthy guys... from the upper echelon of the hedge fund world > > 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?” > > This single question occupied us for the rest of the hour. They knew armed guards would be required to protect their compounds from the angry mobs. But how would they pay the guards once money was worthless? What would stop the guards from choosing their own leader? > > Taking their cue from Elon Musk..., Peter Thiel..., or Sam Altman and Ray Kurzweil..., they were preparing for... insulating themselves from a very real and present danger of climate change, rising sea levels, mass migrations, global pandemics, nativist panic, and resource depletion. For them, the future of technology is really about just one thing: escape.

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Surur t1_j7rimel wrote

> “How do I maintain authority over my security force after the event?”

The answer - AI

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rogert2 t1_j7ssv1l wrote

You're going to have to explain that a little more.

It seems that if AI is capable of keeping human soldiers in line, it's probably also capable of simply replacing humans soldiers with armed version of the Boston Dynamics robots.

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Surur t1_j7tfrg3 wrote

Replacement is obviously the most secure.

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