What I’m about to explain to you is literally the bottom line for the rest of your life.
Yes, I’m actually serious. You’ll see what I mean in a minute.
I’ll take it step by step.
As I have discussed several times before, I believe, based on all of the data I have available to me, that there is an approximately 35% chance that all of humanity gets wiped out in the next 20 years or so.
This humanity-ending event, if it happens, will be from either:
A) AI deciding humans should be destroyed.
B) Asshole humans using AI to do something bad.
C) Stupid humans using AI to do something horrible by mistake (like with COVID).
I happen to think C is the most likely, but it doesn’t really matter. If you add up all three of those possibilities, I think we’re easily at 35% or so.
But then we have to deal with the more likely possibility that humanity does not get destroyed.
I believe, again based on the information before me, that there is a roughly 57% chance that instead of humanity getting destroyed, the world transforms so much in the next 20 years (or less, perhaps much less) that day-to-day life and existence as a human being is so radically different than it is today that people are going to be existentially shocked.
More than shocked, actually. I mean that a lot of people go crazy, kill themselves, fall into massive depression, completely lose themselves in drugs, and so on.
I did a YouTube video a while back where I noted that many AI experts are saying that 2027 will be the last “normal” year for humans.
This is entirely possible. And even if it’s wrong, that means 2028 or 2029 will be the last normal year. In other words, regardless of the actual year this occurs, it may not be very long.
I had a few commenters on that video say that no, 2019 was the last normal year, or 2003 was the last normal year, but these people don’t understand what I’m saying.
When I say “not normal,” I don’t mean that it’s harder to find a job, or buy a house, or get a girlfriend, which is what these guys are talking about.
Ohhhh no. I’m talking about the entire human condition changing radically.
I’m talking about radical sci-fi shit no one has seen, and no one is prepared for, like the USA actually collapsing, or the entire concept of money or jobs vanishing, or people living 300+ years but looking 25 until they die, and so on.
I’m saying there’s a 57% chance that some time in the next few years, life could be so different that your day-to-day experience will be literally unrecognizable.
These differences could be really good, really horrible, or (I think most likely) a combination of really good and really horrible at the same time, like when humans invented social media – it created lots of good (way easier to start a business now, etc) and lots of horrible (like the destruction of American culture, etc).
These radical changes will be from:
A) The collapse of the Western world as an economic engine, and/or the collapse of the USA specifically.
B) AI.
C) Both of those things. As just one possible example, the USA collapses and what is left of the civilized world is taken over by Chinese AI and/or its proxies. (Unfortunately, and I don’t like saying this, this scenario is not unlikely at all and is looking more likely all the time.)
So if there’s a 35% chance we’ll all be dead in less than 20 years, and there’s another 57% chance life as a human will be something radically different, that leaves an 8% chance that none of this will happen, and over the next several decades things just continue more or less as they have for the past 30 years
In other words, everything just slowly gets worse every year in the Western world; people keep complaining, getting more depressed and stressed out, but nothing ever radically changes.
8% isn’t very likely, so while I’m not planning on this happening, I admit it’s possible. And because 8% is higher than 2%, it’s not in the 2% Rule, so I must account for it as a real possibility.
So to summarize:
35%: We all die.
57%: Your life changes into something completely unrecognizable to you, good or bad or both.
8%: Nothing radical happens, things just keep getting slowly worse.
Just assuming the Nothing Really Happens scenario is what is going to happen is extremely stupid in my view. Your odds of that are only about 8%.
This means that you need to account for the 35% We All Die scenario as well as the 57% Everything Changes scenario and prepare for both of these.
If this sounds like a daunting task, you’re right. It is. But there is some good news.
That is, preparing for the 35% and 57% scenarios involves the exact same things, at least more or less. It’s not like you have to perform one set of tasks for the 35% and an entirely different set for the 57%. One plan will indeed cover both scenarios.
I’ll describe the second most important thing first.
This is all of the lifestyle models and techniques I’ve been talking about for the past 17 years in my books, blogs, articles, videos, courses, and programs. These would be:
Have a location-independent business instead of a job. Self-employed, location-independent people are the safest and most maneuverable people on Earth, especially during times of chaos.
Don’t live anywhere in the Collapsing West. Whatever horrible thing occurs will happen to the Collapsing West first. Therefore, your odds of happiness pre-death and of keeping a semblance of a normal life go way up if you don’t live in the Collapsing USA, Cuckoo Canada, Breakdown Britain, Suicidal Europe, Negligent New Zealand (remember, you’re not a billionaire) or Authoritarian Australia. Guys like me living in Paraguay (as just one example) are going to be orders of magnitude safer than anyone still living in the Collapsing West. (And if you still think Trump is going to fix it… Jesus, you moron… the fuck are you smoking?)
Have at least one backup flag in case your current country has a problem. There’s a reason I live in two countries and have legal residencies in five. If any of my current countries have a problem, I can quickly and easily move somewhere else.
Be unmarried (legally) and non-monogamous. Relying on just one woman for 100% of all of your romantic or sexual needs during the era of chaos the world is entering is a recipe for upset, sadness, neediness, problems, drama, and, if you’re not careful, extra financial expense. As usual, no one is saying you need to date 17 women or have five wives. (Don’t even try to use these stupid strawman arguments on me.) I’m talking about just two or three women, like one main woman and one girl on the side. Two or three women is far superior to one, even if they aren’t serious. Moreover, living internationally makes this shockingly easy.
Those are all important, and I’ve talked about those in great detail already. But those are the external, logistical things.
As important as those things are, there’s something even more important.
That is the internal change you need to make.
You need to get right spiritually.
Once you get aligned spiritually, it doesn't matter if you and the rest of humanity get wiped out in 10 years or if the AI Communist Utopia makes it impossible to find a job or find meaning through your work.
That’s because you’ll already have all of the meaning you need, within you, regardless of what happens.
I’ll go into more detail on that in the second part of this article.