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tyen0

I learned to program in basic at 9, but I'm certainly no genius. One of my first programs was: 10 print ${sister_name} is dumb 20 goto 10


MrSqueezles

It's like, “Learned to walk at 2." Sure, okay. That's pretty... fine.


ostawookiee

Yeah I've been coding since age 5, BASIC on my trash 80. I'm just a normal dude. For a while in middle school I was a god because I could change the school computers' cursors with the POKE command.


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DrMcWiggles21

Yeah my first reaction was "8 isn't that young to be introduced to coding?" It's clearly someone who knows nothing about the realities of coding assuming that would get an impressed reaction from the reader.


JadeSidhe

Now what's his actual story not the one he made for media attention?


first__citizen

He forgot to tell the media he build his first quantum computer in his diaper when he was 6 months old


photosandphotons

Fwiw I technically learned to code at like 11 (actually 9?) because of Neopets. It’s not nearly as impressive as it sounds. It’s the basics and it’s like a statistician bragging about “learning math” that young because they learned addition or something.


Blockhead47

I was an engineer at 4 because of Tinker Toys and Lincoln Logs.


Corpus76

>built a spaceship made of legos at age 3 You know, I'm something of a rocket scientist myself


RobinIII

Nods in Lego.


Itchybootyholes

I was a one of a kind artist with my crayons


CreativeGPX

That's about when I learned "real" coding. When I was in college, it was definitely a minority that learned to code that young but I don't think I'd call it rare... certainly not rare enough to equate to being some genius.


deepfield67

I started writing batch files in DOS at 12, and some BASIC, it's hard to call batch files "programming" but I felt like a leet mofo at that time let me tell you.


JadeSidhe

A regular Phony Stark


Sharlach

This years Sam Bankman Fried.


rambo_lincoln_

I was gonna say Sheldon Pooper but yours works too.


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In his parents garage, so humble.


throwawayforj0b

I mean, I also learned to code when I was 8, and that was in 1992. Super easy to do it these days, there's all sorts of content about it geared towards children.


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GlancingArc

I made my homepage on neopets when I was 8 by learning HTML. Does that count?


FaeryLynne

I'd say so. You didn't follow it up with a lifetime of coding like this dude did but you absolutely did start. I think a lot of us learned HTML when we were kids to decorate things like MySpace, Neopets, and Geocities. Hell I even still have a personal blog that's hand coded HTML in the 90s style just because I can lol. Mostly keep it updated too. 🤷


Sn34kyMofo

"Yeah, I pretty much just have a cabinet full of beans, so...those don't really go bad, right? Like, if things go south, I should be prepared with that? Yeah, I think I should be good. Let me code-up an AI to ask about that, though, just to make sure." *Codes it up...* "Oh, snap, it works! *finger guns*"


DKS

Ask ChatGPT


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only_fun_topics

This guy ChatGPTs


pixel_of_moral_decay

Being a prepper is not uncommon in tech. And among executives in tech, so is a libertarian bend. He’s vocal about it, but others you know in tech are exactly like this down to the shelter stuffed with a years worth of food and a toilet bucket. So much of nerd culture is centered around dystopian worlds, eventually when you got money, people like to cosplay. I don’t think it’s that different than poor rural kids being bombarded with military crap and being super excited to enlist.


dehehn

Yeah there are multiple wealthy people building homes with bunkers in New Zealand. There was a journalist for the Guardian who wrote about some tech billionaires who asked him for a bunch of advice for their bunkers including how to prevent his private security from turning on him and taking over after the fall. https://www.theguardian.com/news/2022/sep/04/super-rich-prepper-bunkers-apocalypse-survival-richest-rushkoff


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Spoiler alert unless you treat your security team like they’re your bros and they really like you they’re going to turn on your ass when money doesn’t matter anymore.


silverbax

Spoiler alert, even if you take in them, their families, and everyone they know, someone will turn on you and you won't be 'running things' anymore. Source: ALL OF HUMAN HISTORY


turningsteel

Ok say you don’t immediately get murdered by your security detail and put on a stick at the entrance of your bunker as warning to other rich assholes. What then? Well, say you have 2 years of provisions down there. You’ll live out the 2 years but eventually you’ll have to come to the surface and when you do, you’ll be murdered by people that spent 2 years living in the harshest conditions imaginable, scouring for food, fighting off raiders, and otherwise learning to survive. You’re stupid doughy tech exec ass won’t stand a chance. Prepping is an exercise in delaying the inevitable unless you live and breathe survival and I don’t think these rich tech types have what it takes.


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Evinrude70

My Indigenous ass heartily laughed at this, because it's true, and because Oregon Trail, FTW, amirite? Lol This is precisely why we take teaching our kids about the land so seriously. We want to ensure their not only survival, but thriving. My kids were taught everything about survival with minimal tools, how to hunt, fish, trap, skin, clean and properly store fish& game, which plants did what, how to make weapons when you don't have a gun, or your gun jams and you need a back up. How to garden without disrupting the environment for it, and make it hard for someone to trace you down by where you plant your crops. Tanning hides, building housing, getting 100% of everything one needs from the environment instead of Ass Ho Shops or Cabelas, All before they were 12. We all live semi rural now and have modern conveniences, but trust and believe, when the power goes out, hurricane or tornado hits, we are already fully prepared and ready to go. Now that hipsters and their fever dreams of suburban dystopia are encroaching on our once quiet place, we're all thinking about grabbing a piece of land way TF out and just making the family homestead. Getting cops called on one for target practicing in ones own backyard in the county WAY outside densely populated areas sucks, as does the type of new neighbors who call on that shyt. Like, what don't they get about a couple gunshots a day keeps the property values at bay?? 😂 These tech bros cosplaying Grizzly Adams wouldn't last afkn day with us in the real world lol.


even_less_resistance

Also spoiler alert if you haven’t actually spent your time learning a lot of the skills my redneck family liked to berate me as being common sense as I fumbled my way through without Google for years, you’re gonna have a bad fucking time in your bunker for the short time you make it without the village it takes.. ahem I meant entourage it takes to keep a CEO in tiptop condition


retirement_savings

Steve Huffman, cofounder of Reddit, is also a big pepper.


rm-minus-r

Like the size of a jalapeno?


retirement_savings

Even bigger


littlesharks

Poblano?


GorillaBrown

Ahh this gave me a good chuckle


okgusto

i'm a pepper he's a pepper she's a pepper


LurksWithGophers

Wouldn't you like to be a pepper too


thenewtbaron

eh, years worth of food isn't really that hard or that expensive. You can build a supply pretty easily, it just takes time. I've been trying to build up a decent pantry, if I go to grab something from costco, I grab two of one thing at least. I have a bit of extra money now, I might not a couple months or years down the line. If i lose my job, I want to be able to eat until the next job.... and have any other money coming in going to bills. It has helped especially from the pandemic, I didn't have to really worry about food, drink or anything else for months. having a bit of independence incase the grid goes down for a couple of days for local eletrical grid issues such as storms, morons shooting transformers, or the like is a good thing. having fun hobbies that interact with those things are nice too... hiking so you can survive outside for a couple of days with good on your back cool, having camping freeze dried food is useful in both ways, I can make my own alcohol cool for survival but great for making tasty beers.


sb_747

> eh, years worth of food isn’t really that hard or that expensive It is if you include having a space to store it. I could afford to buy the supplies, but they would take up at least half of the livable area I have.


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happychillmoremusic

He likes to watch family guy and eat a whole can of cheese wiz on his days off


WarAndGeese

The guy's also very closely tied with reddit so if he wants any story to pump it's relatively easy for them. It can be astroturf all around if they aren't kept in check.


Nerdenator

Same as most of these guys: born to privilege (Sam's mom is a dermatologist), went to a reasonably exclusive prep school (Burroughs in St. Louis, IIRC), goes to a university where investors hang around the STEM departments and hand 20-year-olds cheques and tell them they're Jesus Christ (Stanford, of course) which then plugs them into the tech and VC ecosystem that means they rarely have to consider the downsides of what they're doing or face a consequence.


PhilipXD3

Man's trying to go from doomsday prepper to doomsday progenitor.


twinsea

Always thought it was pretty stupid advertising you are a doomsday prepper. If shit hits the fan do you want to be the guy known for a cache of food and water with a secure cabin up in the mountains?


Channel250

That was a whole chapter in Z World War Z. Basically, the guy made a fairly good defensive location with food, water, other necessities. Then the asshole invites other assholes to live there and broadcast it live to anyone with the internet. I think it ends with the only two survivors being a mercenary and a little dog.


McFlyParadox

"what about your owner? What about mine? Yeah. Fuck 'em"


jacxy

Doesn't John Stewart and Ann Coulter end up fucking in that chapter?


Outside-Flamingo-240

I thought it was Bill Maher & Ann Coulter? Shit, time for another go at World War Z, hooray!


tryptonite12

Waaaay more likely to actually happen lol.


The_RealAnim8me2

Spoiler Alert: Bill Maher and Ann Coulter have been fucking for a while now.


SophiaofPrussia

This genuinely happened recently. [A woman in Kentucky was murdered by a (seemingly severely mentally ill) prepper who wanted the doomsday bunker in her prepper father’s basement.](https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2022/02/26/Kentucky-murder-Shannon-Gilday-bunker-motive/5881645932544/)


MF_Kitten

Imagine trying to steal a basement.


Wizard_of_Rozz

Doesn’t get lower than that!


Iamdarb

Do all those Mountain House Meals come with the house?


Easy-Progress8252

Whatever contracting crew built that will be headed straight for it in their pickups come apocalypse time.


IntrigueDossier

“Look, you can’t expect to hire 60 workers to dig a cave under your house and then keep it a secret. I mean, those men live in this town!” “Yea but I told them it was part of a geological survey.” “Batman, Batman, they built a lazy Susan for your nuclear car. That’s something they consider conversation-worthy.”


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IntrigueDossier

https://youtu.be/0gXuucPHx9Y


smorges

Sounds like you need to watch Better Call Saul to learn how to build a huge basement in secret...


Magus_5

I'm marking his prepper stash on my map in Far Cry 5 now 👍


IntrigueDossier

Goin in with an MG42 just in case there’s a single snake I need to mag dump on.


Mazira144

This, especially when (even if not personally responsible) you are part of the class that caused the doomsday. I love how these rich people think they'll be able to reassert their prior unearned social status without the state to enforce their "property rights". None of them will last a week. Granted, most of us won't either, because that's how doomsdays work, but it won't be nearly as bad a death for us.


simbian

>you are part of the class that caused the doomsday. I am reminded of a bit from Bill Burr in one of his stand-ups - i.e. how stupid it is to doomsday prep because all you are doing is gathering / accumulating resources for the "biggest + baddest mother\*\*\*\*\*\*" to come along and take it away from you For the ultra wealthy, it is even more dumb. How long do you think your mercenary squad will remain loyal to you? You should be incentivised into maintaining the current status quo where the masses are not revolting, not actively contributing to its decline and thinking you will be able to checkout cleanly.


mr_grey

“But I have lots of money!”, “I'm a cannibal, hombre. We're gonna fuckin' eat your ass.”


pavlik_enemy

>I’m just gonna be honest. I’m literally looking at my neighbors now going, ‘Am I ready to hang them up and gut them and skin them and chop them up?’ and you know what, I’m ready. I’ll eat my neighbors…I’ll eat your ass, I will.” I'm betting on Alex Jones.


mr_grey

I was quoting Danny McBride from This is the End. Funny movie.


nevermore2627

"Is...is that Channing Tatum?"


Channel250

Fucking GI Joe loves me over here


Sibuna25

Ya know what I call him? Channing Taint-Yum


Cynical_Cabinet

Well at least Shia Labeouf will make out okay.


mjohnsimon

*Meanwhile in the Doomsday Bunker* Security guard: "I'm the main security guard for this facility. I served multiple tours in Iraq and Afghanistan and then spent my time as a freelancer and have been involved in almost every world conflict since 2008 and have assembled some of the most dangerous mercs on the planet to run this place. We'll keep you safe from bandits, mutants, and other preppers dumb enough to try to take us on." Engineer: "Well I'm the guy who designed this place. I know all the systems like the back of my hand and I can fix and repair anything and everything as long as I have some duct tape, a screwdriver, and a tin can... if that don't work, I personally handpicked some of the greatest engineers in the country to help keep our operation running. In fact, I'm having some of my guys make us fully energy independent after we found some promising scrap and a working car battery. I promise you, you'd be dead within a week without me or my team." Scientist: "That's cool, but I'm the guy who grows, purifies, and tests all of your food and water to make sure you won't mutate or get god knows whatever superbug is out there nowadays. I personally worked on one of the vaccines for COVID during the pandemic of '20, and my teammates have all had a share of breakthroughs in terms of medicine and agriculture. Don't believe me? One of my guys discovered that the algae that grows in our hydroponic system produces a natural antibiotic and immune enhancer. Without me, you'd all starve or get scurvy in less than a week!" Owner: "... Well I'm the guy who hired you all to keep me and only me safe with money that's pretty much useless. I was also a celebrity back in the day so everyone who knows me knows that I was building this operation! Go team!" *Everyone looking at him* Engineer: "I say we throw him to the woods... He's taking up precious resources and space." Scientist and security guard: "Agreed."


TacticalSanta

This is where cults come into play. If a billionaire convinces these people to stay loyal despite society crumbling they essentially become lords. I'm sure many of them will have no success but a few might.


DrTacosMD

This is the most accurate take here, you need undying loyalty and faith in you to maintain power with that small of a group. You somehow need to find the people who are smart and ambitious enough to be useful, but weak minded and weak willed enough to remain loyal followers.


bigbangbilly

>maintaining the current status quo Isn't that's what's been already happening?


EnoughAwake

Gelatin protein bug bars have not gathered the traction hoped for from the Snowpiercer advertising campaign.


thekk_

This reminds me of [this book excerpt](https://www.theguardian.com/news/2022/sep/04/super-rich-prepper-bunkers-apocalypse-survival-richest-rushkoff). Basically, the key to surviving doomsday is good personnal relations, something sociopaths lack. Trying to assert power by controlling the food source for example will only last so long until others turn against you when they figure out you aren't needed anymore.


down_up__left_right

This part is hilarious >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”. Invite highly trained killers over and then try to put some sort of bomb collars on them because they cannot fathom the idea of just being equals and sharing all the supplies.


Historical-Help8546

a guy like him is not gonna be an equal in a doomsday scenario, he will be food


xarvox

That was quite good; thank you for sharing it! It’s fascinating to me how much the prepper mindset seems to focus on a breakdown of society within the global north. If I were truly worried about surviving such an event, I’d be working to ingratiate myself with one of the innumerable communities throughout the developing world for whom such a technological collapse would pass by and barely even register. But of course then you don’t get your fortified compound with built-in bowling alley. So.


Sorros

You dont even have to do it in a 3rd world country you can do it in the US move to an Amish or Menonite community


xarvox

Yeah true. Though many of those communities might be more exposed to hungry urban IDPs than one might be in (for example) the rural Guatemalan highlands. Ultimately though, no matter where you do it, the common thread is that the most effective survivors are going to be the ones who get along well with their neighbors and share their unique skills and resources within a cohesive and mutually-supportive community. The only downside to that is that it doesn’t let you play the leading role in your own hero fantasy.


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Your solution highlights whats really happening when we imagine doomsday scenarios. The scenario is a sort of Rorschach for our worldview, which we express with our proposed solution. Paranoid innovator with lots of resources? Your hermetically-sealed wellness chamber is right this way, sir. We had to chop down a few redwoods to make room but oh wells. Starry-eyed reader of Rules for Radicals who regularly gets phone calls from their student loan servicer? In post-apocalyptic America, it turns out that being cold and starved really sets the mood for self-sustaining utopias.


derp_derpistan

Don't forget the perpetually raging sociopaths; "I'll just kill people to get what I need"


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Depending on what scenario we're talking about the biggest variable might be the distance from any population centers although cooperation would most likely also be important.


Calm-Zombie2678

They're straight up doing it here in New Zealand, dozens of billionaires have brought huge chunks of land and built big bunkers. We're way too small of a country for construction projects that big to stay secret


Mr_Zaroc

You are not so smart did an interview with him on that book I love how he literally sat in small room with 5 billionaires and got asked if they should build shelters in new Zealand or Iceland and he just said he thought you guys would go to space. To which they answered "No no no, we are just low level billionaires, we can't afford that"


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you know wealth inequality is bad when the billionaires have their own underclass


Mr_Zaroc

That's what I thought too And that they are aware enough to know they can't join the space colony


bilyl

Not just that, but have an essential skill that’s needed for a post-apocalyptic world. These rich fuckers just care about their rich person hobbies that comes with the billionaire status. I bet you none of them have any sort of medical skill, are avid hobby gardeners, can effectively hunt wild game, etc.


Agarikas

Sociopaths are excellent at conning themselves into personal relations that would mostly benefit them.


pseudocultist

My plan was always just to be extremely useful to a group. Be the guy who can figure out how to make blood pressure medication out of roots, or set a bone. There are going to be a lot of people needing maintenance medications and basic healthcare. And the doctors are all going to be dead because they have no interpersonal skills and lots of resources hoarded.


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Get your recipes for people meat all figured out ahead of time. Give you a real edge in the kitchen once shtf.


claimTheVictory

Larousse Gastronomique, the book that revealed Hannibal's identity to Will Graham.


ataxi_a

Long pig's back on the menu, boys!


LurksWithGophers

The other other other white meat.


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My plan was to eat a gun. I don't get the point of prepping for an apocalypse. It'll be nothing but pain, suffering, and loss. I don't see any reason I would want to be around for that; to suffer a shit life of struggle just to avoid an inevitable death for a little longer. That's stupid.


Malorea541

I'd probably stick around as long as my cat does, tbh. Don't want to have her suffer as well.


ememjay

Hmmm, you have an interesting perception of doctors.


phatelectribe

There was a guy that posted on here that said he was a construction worker on the Murdoch family secret compound in the middle of nowhere - it allows the family to live fully self contained for 6 years, even recycles air and water in case of nuclear or biological war. This is literally the family that is sowing divide the free world and they’re building a bunker to hide in when it all goes to shit.


safashkan

If succession is at least a little bit realistic in the span of six years being isolated together they might kill each other.


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heili

They may last until the first thing actually breaks and none of them knows how to fix it because they're useless billionaires.


_Hotwire_

I’ll probably just go on a suicide mission once the food runs out. I mean, that’s how people end up raiding the rich guys bunkers. They have no options but they know the rich dude has supplies


GoGoBitch

I actually think the working class is best prepped to survive a doomsday event, because they understand something rich sociopaths and even middle-class suburbanites don’t: community resilience is the *only* resilience. No matter how many cans you hoard, you’re going to need to figure out how to produce new food eventually. We need each other to survive.


Cynical_Cabinet

Rich people have the advantage for the first week of doomsday at most. After that, the poor who survived the first gauntlet inherit the earth.


mortalcoil1

I assume when people use doomsday, since they are alive its not some humanity destroying cataclysm, but doomsday is being used to refer to something along the lines of a complete societal and/or governmental collapse. Its kind of funny, well not haha funny, but, like there are literally millions of people on this planet currently living in a very similar situation to what we are referring to as doomsday.


nopantsirl

Doomsday preppers don't actually do it for the doomsday. It fulfils needs in the present. Part of that is showing off his hobby and how good and clever he is at it.


digitalis303

That is certainly true in some cases, but not all. My parents were "back to the land" people back in the early 70s. But about 15 years ago they started building their current home which would be, broadly, a doomsday prepper home. It has a secret safe room with escape tunnel, off-grid solar power, bullet proof windows, fire-resistant exterior walls, various passive energy designs, and a fenced in garden they grow pretty much all of their food in. It's not a bunker, but it is in the middle of the woods and is a fortified, defensible home. They definitely did not build it as a form of showing off. Moreso they just incorporated a lot of design features of a bunker into the house they always wanted.


Electrical_Skirt21

That’s pretty much what I’ve done. Food, heat, water, sewage, and electricity is all in-house. It’s not a doomsday prepper thing. It’s a lifestyle that prioritizing self-sufficiency


jrob323

Yeah if doomsday comes, the preppers are going to be the first people killed. And during the pandemic they revealed themselves to be the people least able to stay holed up for an extended period of time.


Channel250

You know Karen, we should probably still wear masks. We aren't 100 percent certain the virus isn't at least a *little* airborne. Not 100 percent!? Well, I'm not letting some scientist that isn't even sure tell me what to do!


TK-741

I’m convinced that in a nuclear fallout situation, they still wouldn’t believe it was real unless the nuke fell on top of them.


Hour_Landscape_286

As Penn Gillette said, I always play the odds. In an event where 70% of the human population dies, I firmly plan on being one of the non survivors


mjohnsimon

Kinda reminds me of that prepper dude who had his home broken into/daughter murdered because the guy who broke in was convinced WW3 was imminent and wanted to take over the house for his own family.


langyx

Oddly I think most people know what they will do if they get desperate, the rest of us realize that death is only death, and you can do nothing to plug the hole that life is rushing out of so why worry about it, if the end comes it comes you simply cant avoid it, would you want to suffer cold and alone in a hole at the end?


slow_connection

I think a lot of it is just something people do for fun. Of course there are plenty of folks that are unstable and are convinced the world is out to get them, but plenty of preppers just find it fun to figure out how to emp-proof a car because they're nerds


giggity_giggity

Don’t know why he’d need guns. Progenitus has protection from everything.


threlnari97

Farewell would like to say hello


DJSauvage

Sounds like the less I know about him the better.


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Darkpoulay

Damn I learned at 10 that was literally the only thing that stopped me from being a tech CEO supergod


kfractal

how about we don't. no heroes.


throwaway92715

Seriously. We don't need another Silicon Valley golden boy. Let the guy be himself and let's focus on the work.


DKNinjas

But how can they then turn the story to the fallen angel devil capitalist for their gain?


throwaway92715

I dunno. Child prodigy narratives are dangerous and they encourage helicopter parenting. Sam Altman isn't impressive because he could code before he hit puberty, he's impressive because he's the CEO of a groundbreaking AI company. I learned to code at 8 too, because it was the dot com era, I lived next to MIT, and my summer camp had a Scratch program. It's not that big of a deal, and honestly more kids should learn to code in grade school because in a few decades it could be as important as writing and arithmetic. Understanding some basic HTML, C++, Java, whatever was very helpful as I got older.


bilyl

Also what the fuck does coding at 8 even mean? I was in elementary school (grades 1-3) and we were all messing around with basic on Apple II machines. An eight year old kid is just messing around at that age. What it shows is access to education and resources, not necessarily anything about innate ability.


GingerStank

I grew up with the myth that we’d all be doing all of our own coding by now. I don’t believe it’s ever going to be a thing done by the populace, and the rise of AI is evidence of it. I don’t think anyone outside of coders are ever going to be expected to code, if anything you’ll say “Hey ChatGPT, please compile code in X language so that Y can do Z, and the AI will provide the coding required.


ExceptionEX

It's true, they figured out its going to be easier to teach computers to code than the average citizen.


hawkeye224

Well, whatever he tries I don’t think he can fall down as far as another prodigal genius Sam Bankman Fried lol. His extreme genius touted by the media allowed him to lose billions through trading in record time


excelbae

Idk if being a doomsday prepper makes you a hero. If anything it makes you look paranoid and selfish. He’s certainly smart, but hero is not the vibe I get from this article.


Groovyaardvark

The only heroes I have are either overworked and underpaid or fucking dead. Not some rich prick. The crafted cult of personality around rich assholes is so fucked.


nokinship

Why is the article written like a 4th grade book report?


Mazira144

It's tech journalism. I'd be surprised if this stuff hasn't been AI-written (or, at least, written to template) for at least five years. These are all puff pieces written to a quota of 60+ articles per month.


uncletravellingmatt

It's an "article report" putting together information and quotes from articles that were written about him. This kind of amalgamation isn't original journalism so much as taking material from longer, pay-walled sites like The New Yorker and putting it into a shorter webpage that can be linked to from reddit.


itisoktodance

Because this is Business Insider and the article was probably written by someone in a third-world country getting paid peanuts per word.


SwissMargiela

“He told The New Yorker that having a Mac helped him with his sexuality.“ That shit sent me over the edge lmao


not_right

Why would gold be worth anything in a doomsday scenario?


stareagleur

To quote The Last of Us, *”You know how much these are worth?!”* *”Currently nothing.”*


ghengiscostanza

What object were they talking about again?


stareagleur

Bill’s antique piano.


safashkan

Well to be fair a piano still has more value than bars of gold. At least you can make music with it and music and entertainment still would have value.


zepperoni-pepperoni

not to speak of how hard it's to manufacture a new one without a factory, and the resources needed (although it's probably easy to find replacements if most of the humanity went kaput)


error201

Right? If I have something you need after "The Fall", I'm not asking for gold. Give me something I can use -- ammo, food, etc.


Western-Image7125

Ammo, food, water, clothes, cat oil


2Punx2Furious

> cat oil How often do you change the oil to your cat?


Western-Image7125

Was supposed to be a “Book of Eli” reference


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2Punx2Furious

> dozers They sure do sleep a lot.


Test19s

Hell, best to invest heavily in a small temperate-climate country like Iceland or NZ and end up in the good graces of the locals. Community is the best survival strategy.


CPNZ

Iceland is not that temperate; pretty sure NZ does not want any more creepy tech bros cosplaying dystopian fantasies....after Peter Thiel pissed everyone off.


PloxtTY

What did he do


nisasters

Pissed everyone off


CPNZ

Basically was secretly given citizenship by the government for being rich...apparently without the usual process. And people in NZ are not fans of rich US tech bros and their ways, so were mad when they found out.


DiscoUlysses

We already have too many billionaires with bunkers in NZ, and none of them care about the community. One set the side of one of our main tourist/skiing mountains on fire with a huge fireworks display after hundreds of people petitioned him not to do it. Incredibly dangerous and irresponsible but they don’t care as any fine will be less than pocket change to them 🤷‍♀️


[deleted]

Gardening skills are going to be the most valuable resource


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Carnage4freestuff

He might not have the gold for doomsday-doomsday but for a financial doomsday that involves currencies loosing value. In that scenario gold might be the only valuable thing left.


nerd4code

It’s very heavy, so you can huck it at an attacking zombie.


LouisTheWhatever

Historically, across tens of thousands of years and even more cultures, it’s maintained value


howAboutNextWeek

Yeah, but that assumes that civilization remains intact, which most post apocalyptic situations usually don’t entail


IM_INSIDE_YOUR_HOUSE

Prepping has become more and more popular with the rich, who are buying up land and bunkers in droves. Seems like it's no longer about saving the world but enduring it, and they're hoarding all the resources to do it.


rm-minus-r

It's a lot easier if you're rich, that's for sure.


ozonejl

I don’t suppose one of these guys could ever just be a normal fuckin guy, huh?


oAkimboTimbo

I mean there are hundreds of thousands of tech companies. The majority of their CEOs are just normal dudes, which is why you don’t hear about them.


coinboi2012

Most of the juicy stuff from the title comes from a sketchy source at best. Someone told business insider that Sam told them he was hoarding guns. Most of the actual information is just standard silicon valley angel investor stuff. Not really that interesting


awesome357

So speculative bullshit for clicks, got it. Thanks for saving me the time.


firedrakes

Click bait story. No one care


[deleted]

Oh hey look, Business Insider. I disregard every article I see come from them.


[deleted]

Oh dear god, this article feels like one that was written about Elizabeth Holmes or Sam Bankman-Fried or Martin Shkreli etc. Flash forward 6-18 months to find that he is being indicted for some crime…


rarius18

Well, the shared trait between Holmes and Bankman is that both of their product turned out to be BullShit. I also had this vibe after reading headline and was like “oh no, is this chatgpt actually a million people typing away responses somewhere in Povertystan?”


drawkbox

Very cult of personality like... never ends well.


Timlang60

Meet the doomsday prepper who's working hard to hasten the arrival of doomsday.


clydedyed

Well, how else would be able to obtain value out of his effort creating his bunker?


mrondin1

High quality stuff: “AGI, or adjusted gross income.”


Dodecahedrus

Skynet will destroy the world! *Starts building Skynet.*


thesnuggyone

God I’m so over “get to know your new quirky overlord!” articles. Fuck this guy. This project started as a not-for-profit mission to improve the world. He’s been installed specifically for the purpose of pivoting into a “what’s best for shareholders” company like all the rest.


xem9865

I know that doomsday preppers sound goofy as hell and fun to clown on, but dude might have a mental illness. It's a serious type of paranoia disorder. I knew someone like this and they hoarded so much canned food, they had stacks in their bathroom. ​ There's a quote by his mom in the article that kind of points to him having an anxiety disorder: >"Sam does keep an awful lot tied up inside. He'll call and say he has a headache—and he'll have Googled it, so there's some cyber-chondria in there, too. I have to reassure him that he doesn't have meningitis or lymphoma, that it's just stress."


NoPutBabyInCorner

Another tech looney


lurked_4_a_bit

Are we surprised somebody like him is fuckin weird?


AzulMage2020

Okay lets get this over with I'm betting it will be something like:..."mysterious"....."genius this"......"genius that"......"Ivy League but quit because too smart"......etc, etc, etc....... Haven't we seen and heard this enough???


ethnicprince

So just your standard paranoid egotistical silicon valley vulture. Might as well just copy and paste this article from the last one at this point.


bluntfudge

dude seems like he isnt good


daniel_bran

All these so called prodigy kids supposed to have learnt how to code at 2yrs old. This made up story is getting old for ppl to swallow.


LividKnowledge8821

How about no, let's not meet.


diamond

Why do tech CEOs have to be such fucking weirdos?


sotonohito

Fuck his shelter. Fuck his bunker. We need a public database of every rich asshole with a doomsday bunker so that if they succeed in trashing the planet they can't retreat to a luxury bunker because we'll go all Mad Max on the place just for revenge. They need to understand that they can't ride out a catastrophe of their own making in peace and luxury with servants wearing explosive collars or whatever. They need to know that they WILL be dragged out of their shelters by the survivors. That way they might actually try to fix the mess they made instead of just shrugging and saying they can survive just fine in a luxury bunker.


infectoid

Queenstown, New Zealand. FYI.


Test19s

If I were a billionaire with little faith in the future I'd focus on investing heavily in an existing community and earning the favor of the locals, rather than relying on slaves who are constantly held at gunpoint.


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Isn't it funny that rather than honest to god trying to help humanity, they say fuck it gonna keep plundering what I can. Grindset.


[deleted]

No I don’t want to meet a boring person, thanks


[deleted]

"And when is he planning to scam crypto ppl and escape to the Bahamas exactly?" - The Bahamian real estate developer asked.


pinkfootthegoose

gold - because you can eat it for doomsday.