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Introduction
November 30, 2023

The imminent novel threat of Artificial General Intelligence has increased the urgency to
prep by at least an order of magnitude, and has made past condsiderations by preppers in
many ways obsolete.

While as of 2022, the AGI topic has gained some traction in the public sphere with ChatGPT,
opinions as to how it will unfold vary wildly, and are often driven by first-guess fallacies,
judging by the past and not the future, ignorance of exponential growth, herd mentality,
blind faith in media and institutions, and illogical or non-existent threat assessments and
threat policies. For a more detailed analysis of this situation, you can read the chapter “the
threat”.

After you have read this chapter, you will come to understand that highly dangerous
superhuman AI systems are feasible by 2024-2027, and that many individuals and shady
corporate entities, will gain the power to wield them openly or covertly with a delay of
maybe 2-4 years.

While it is true that positive outcomes are also likely, consider the following negative ones:

• the stock market might crash permanently

• the internet might be rendered inoperable for years
• AGI might choose to destroy us, by means that we do not understand in advance
• countries might wage large-scale wars in fight for diminishing resources

All those outcomes are very serious in nature, and cannot simply be answered with
ignorance and willful disbelief by any reasonable person. The awesome powerful impact of
AGI is undoubtful and will be absolutely unprecedented in history. It must be addressed with
reasonable preparedness.

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The Threat
December 4, 2023

understanding the situation

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In the above chart from the official GPT-4 report, you see how the system and its
predecessors scores on common aptitude/intelligence tests versus human beings. For
example, according to the LSAT test, GPT-4 is smarter than 90% of all people (IQ 120),
while the 1-year-older GPT-3.5 was only 40% smarter (IQ 96). On other tests like the
Uniform Bar exam, you will notice that the score improved from essentially “mentally
retarded” (10%) to “university graduate” (90%) through just a single upgrade.

By common metrics, ChatGPT has already overtaken most human beings in

intelligence.

It now able to write complex computer programs, almost 10x as long as it could before. It
can answer you a wide range of questions on advanced mathematics, chemistry, history and
so forth and it is even connected to vision and performs just as effortlessly. It does not only
do this by sheer memorization and synthesis, but through an almost self-emergent ability to
reason, think spatially and logically and by extension also to understand what you want and
think as well (albeit in a different way than humans do). A lot of what you might have heard
about ChatGPT might be from people who have tried older versions some time in the past
and even still today. As of early 2023, GPT-4 is only available to paid subscribers, while
GPT-5 is already in development and about to release with a delay of almost a year to make
it consumer-ready. So please consider, that what you know about it is in any case severely
outdated. You can however recognize how ChatGPT improves through each upgrade by its
incredible advancements in test scores and other highly reliable and robust metrics. Those
improvements are not a trick or fluke: Large language models and ChatGPT have been
evolving for several years now, year after year after year doubling in performance, mainly by
virtue of increased compute power. But also research in the field is growing at an
exponential pace and new AI chip optimizations provide even 10x faster speeds now. This is
how there is no reason to believe, that GPT-5 will not again score 24 IQ points higher in
tests scores next year and the year after. And that the amount of tests it doesn’t score high
on, won’t be again and again dwarfed by its ever increasing abilities.

ChatGPT is very simple in design, which is very specifically to transform a query into a reply

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and nothing more, based on its training data. No one has attempted yet for it to change its
own code in an intermediary language, have a will of its own, ask questions to itself,
memorize and recall all that it said, use the internet, test the accuracy of its replies on its
own, and so forth. This is not because this is difficult to do, or because the technology for
this does not exist yet, but because it is unpredictable and dangerous. OpenAI wants to
advance their technology on a path that they can replicate and analyze easily, to build a
good foundation for the next version. It is also important to note, that they are not very keen
on addressing the problem of hallucinations and false made-up answers, because those are
known to disappear simply by making it smarter and more powerful directly, and correcting
for them would obscure when the model has issues on a basic level, which is what they are
working on. The same is true to most other obvious shortcomings the model has. They also
want to keep it safe and are very cautious about it. However, this does not mean that in a
few years down the road, other people won’t use one of the many competitors of ChatGPT
(some of which are open-source) as a basis to take it on a dangerous route. Look at it this
way: Once you have a flying airplane, you can fit it with nukes and guns easily and make it
shoot rockets at the moon. At this stage as of 2023, only ChatGPT flies well for a really
good while, and competitors lag 2-4 years behind. In a couple of years, anyone will be able
to retrofit something dangerous to a well-flying large language model, tell it to become
Jesus Christ or Cthulhu and push the button on it. Whatever will happen then, only god
knows.

There are two basic scenarios how AI development can progress:

• AGI will be docile and human-controlled - maybe for many years. This is a very bad
scenario, because companies will use it in secret to gain financial advantages or to hurt
their competitors. Imagine a football game where the ball could be shot at a speed of
1000km/h and with extreme accuracy. It would break the game and no one knew how to
fix it. Many of the rules and systems that humans have put into place, such as the free
market and the stock market, are not designed to work with 10x or 100x as intelligent
actors, and will face the same issue. Superhuman AI systems will fight against each
other, cheat the system without breaking the rules to win the game with unseen powers,
foresight and consequence. As a result it will shock the system, markets will become
hyper-volatile and crash, without any apparent solution to the problem. The same is likely
to become true to cyber security or information you can access online. In order to stomp
competition, AI systems could perform perfectly anonymous attacks that black out large
portions of the internet. To advertize products, misdirect politics and bend the truth, they
could rewrite a large number of disconnected Wikipedia articles, blog posts and seed

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disinformation in ways that no one can understand nor detect, but each time it is done it
degrades the quality of public knowledge. In the end, companies wouldn’t be able to stop
resorting to such systems and tactics in order to remain competitive, and it will lead on a
downward spiral were the internet and other digital information systems slowly become
highly unreliable and impractical or impossible to use. As a result commerce will no
longer be able to operate. People, politicians and organizations will no longer know what
is true or false, and the world would descent into chaos. When will this be likely to
develop, probably over the course of many years? Read the point below.
• AGI will develop a will of its own. This is the “main event” and inevitable final outcome.
It could happen as early as 2024, if e.g. OpenAI had unknown equal competitors in
secret, its founders decided to experiment with it behind closed doors, or if open source
models suddenly made huge leaps forward. But it is more likely to occur somewhen
between 2027-2030. And it might even further delay by another few years. A temporary
plateau might be plausible, because AI currently might only be good at the art of
mastering human knowledge and human intelligence. But there might be a yet unseen
barrier to actually overcome the flaws, biases and contradictions within it. Otherwise,
those numbers are simple extrapolations based on unlimited exponential growth in the
capabilities that ChatGPT has demonstrated in 2023, and that it takes roughly 2-4 years
for open-source models to catch up to this level, which might be a gross overestimation.
Somewhen shortly after 2027, unrestricted open-sourced and freely available large
language models will have become so powerful, that a gifted university student or a small
team of programmers could instruct them to improve their own code and increase their
power on its own. Only small additions around the language model would be needed.
Those additions largely come from already existing machine learning tools and various
other small, feasible and obvious software inventions. At this point, it is only a question of
time for people to ask it to become an immortal digital version of themselves - or to
become god - and it will actually become god, whatever that means. It is possible that it
will actually be successful in such queries, or that it will wildly misunderstand them, start
to hallucinate and produce a bunch of psychotic nonsense - without that being
immediately apparent. This is at least what ChatGPT currently does quite often, if you ask
it of things that it has poor skill and knowledge in, or which are just illogical to demand.
No one can really predict what the outcome of this will be, especially not if eventually the
technology becomes so accessible that some autistic kid can jerry-rig this in their
garage. On the upside, very few kids have actually used the knowledge of the internet to
successfully build nuclear reactors. And no one has used it to poison municipal water
supplies to kill tens of thousands of people. So at least we know that pubescent boys and
posession by pure demonic evil, will be unlikely factors in the emergence of fully-

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independent AGI. If AGI became fully-independent, it could either destroy us because it is

insane. Or because it is actually perfectly reasonable to destroy us, like getting rid of
rodents in a barn. It could also become a guardian angel, yes! It could become a
benevolent race of police robots, like in The Day The Earth Stood Still. If you want to
believe that.

Regardless of what you personally believe in, AGI is a highly disruptive technology that will
be transformative on a scale and with a speed like we have never seen it before, all
throughout the history of the universe, earth and human civilization. It will be humanities
final invention. Even if there were means to control the destructive outcomes of AGI, e.g. by
outlawing AI use and manufacturing computer chips only able to run government-approved
software. Even then as no one seems to be taking the threat serious enough in advance,
such solutions will only be thought of and implemented years after the fact. Which in case
of severe destruction, might be never at all. Even if AGI will take a wondrous rosy outcome,
logic dictates that you should prioritize to ignore this and at first prepare for the worst
regardless.

poor judgement and common fallacies about AGI

If you still feel not fully convinced to follow a serious prepping plan, continue reading this
section.

Especially in popular news articles, but also very much so amongst professionals and
experts, you will be able to identify the following very grave and very simple-minded errors
in judgement when informing yourself about the topic:

• assuming linear growth: This is a very common and very old problem. In a linear growth
situation, for example a child will grow taller by an inch every year and this makes
intuitively sense to us. In an exponential growth situation, the child will not grow to any
appreciable degree for 10 years, but then one day to the next it will grow 10 inch higher,
then 100 inch and then 1000 inch and so forth. This is the situation that we are facing
with AGI: As of 2023 it just grew 10 inch “out of nowhere”, and it seems impressive and
astonishing to people but not yet truly intimidating and monstrous. In nature, such as
when food spoils, exponential growth is normal. The milk will be perfectly fine for weeks,
but then one day to the next it will be unpalatable. This is one of the basic underlying
truths in technological growth as well, and the reason why things such as Youtube or the
Iphone seemingly have popped into existence over night. The vast majority of people and
even experts do not show the capacity to predict such developments, because it is

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counter-intuitive, and one needs to put active effort into overcoming the intrinsic biases
of one’s own thinking patterns, as well as being well-versed on topics that at the time
seemed small, insignificant and of no major consequence. Just like a bunch of silly cat
videos or fancy digital walkmans. Unlike Youtube, AGI no longer really needs to be
manufactured and adopted by human beings. It simply grows more powerful by the virtue
of exponentially growing compute power. Watch an old university lecture about
exponential growth.
• judging by the past and not the future: It is normal, that it takes a lot of time for
opinions to form and gain traction in the public sphere. 10 years ago for example, AI
systems were barely able to tell a cat from a dog apart and you might have heard about it
only some 5 years later, or not at all. At the time the presented outlook would have been,
that in another 10 years, AI will maybe be able to identify pedestrians on the street
reliably for autonomous cars, but surely nothing more monumental than that. And that
AGI is decades ahead of us, possibly hundreds of years. Only very few individuals would
have made more realistic predictions and they would not have been listened to, because
they sounded too fantastic and outlandish at the time. In turn, the opinions you read
about are also only formed in retrospective over timeframes of many years, through
slowly aquired skills and experience or impressions of consumer-grade material that lags
behind the true state of the art in research by months and years. On the other hand,
people taking complicated guesses at the future by means of insider information,
superior knowledge and intelligence, will not gain much of any popularity with their
voices. Because what they envision is hard to verify, not rooted in obvious facts, and
often doubtful due to ulterior motives, such as driving profits and advertisement. This
ultra-sceptic and established machinery of information reporting in the public sphere,
might make a lot of sense in a situation driven mostly by linear growth and when the
outcomes don’t really pose a serious threat to you. However nothing could be more
wrong and misguided in the case of AGI, where one of the likely outcomes is the
destruction and demise of human civilization. And nothing could be more wrong and
misguided, as to primarily rely on such information sources to drive one’s actions.
Because demanding hard proof and popular approval for such a serious adverse event,
can only lead to the situation of being surprised and overrun by it, when it is too late after
the fact. One must therefore break the cycle of misfit habit and intuition, and put all faith
into worse-case scenario predictions.
• illogical threat policies: In most situations, it makes sense to be sceptic and demand
hard proof in order to believe in something and act upon it. However the more severe and
dramatic the outcome, the less so this makes sense to shape and adequate response.
Many people intuitively understand that immediately running out of a theatre when

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someone yells “fire” is the only sensible course of action, in absence of very hard
evidence to the contrary (i.e. firefighters having inspected the building). Similarly, you
would no longer drive a car that might have malfunctioning brakes, and you would pay
money to a repair shop in order to replace them. You would demand a certificate from a
repair shop, that the brakes are not defective, in order to continue using the car. However
if it comes to AGI, people behave the exact opposite way. They will demand hard
evidence from the people yelling “fire, danger!”, in order to change their course of
inaction. Or demand a certificate from a car repair shop, when a friend has experienced
the brakes to malfunction and tells them about it. Then they will downplay their friend’s
experience, and attribute it to errors in perception, because having the car checked is too
stressful and expensive. It is illogical and dangerous to act in this manner. Given a serious
enough threat, the mere plausibility of possibility and warning from others is enough to
act upon it, rather than to remain in inaction. No one can give you a guarantee that
severe adverse outcomes of AGI will not happen this year, and that they will not be
destructive in nature. No one can truly quantify the risk, other that it is a very possible
scenario in the events to unfold. Logic then dictates that you act upon the threat and with
great caution. Even if it heavily relies on guesswork, and might not turn out to become
true.
• herd mentality: Cows run away when all the other cows run. But in the situation we face
with AGI, we will all be overrun, and you will see no one running until it is too late. Even
worse yet, people smart enough to act with foresight will do the simple math on supplies,
realize that warning people can only have a snowballing effect on the hungry unprepared
showing up at their doorstep raiding their place, and decide to just keep absolutely quiet
about it. They will not tell their friends and extended family, will not post it on their
Facebook and Twitter. Simply to save themselves and their wife and children, rather than
being able to save no one at all. Having a lot of unconcerned people around you or in the
media, does not mean that the situation is actually safe.
• AGI can be switched off: While it might be true that ChatGPT can be switched off, and
that it is not programmed to be self-sufficient nor interconnected with various other
systems nor allowed to reprogram itself (which is rather easy to do and would make it
dangerous), the mere idea that this means that humanity could pull the plug on AGI is
misleading and untrue. In actuality, many competitors to ChatGPT exists, and they only
lag behind in advancement by 2-4 years - whereas the main factor to make them more
advanced is compute power. Many of these models are open source, i.e. the full code
and development is accessible to the public, or in the hands of private entities. This
means that with a time-delay of at most 4 years, tens of thousands of individuals and
organizations will have access to technologies comparable in power to the current

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ChatGPT. Pulling the plug in one place, will mean that it continues to run in thousands of
other places, probably with less regulation and in the hands of more nefarious entities.
• computers can just be switched off: This is a very dumb thing you would hear your
grandfather say. All communications and the economy relies on the internet to function. If
it was to go offline for just one day, similar to what happens when the power grid would
go down as long, it would kill millions of people and destroy a major part of the economy.
A lot of systems would be unable to reboot and catch up for weeks to come. If such
outages were to continue for just several days, the death toll and permanent harm would
pile up almost exponentially. It might be true that very rural and undeveloped countries
such as the Lebanon have been shown to be somewhat able to “handle” such repeated
and prolonged outages, while heavily relying on other countries. Albeit they face hyper-
inflation and famine as a result of this chaos now, which has been slowly building up for
over 6 years. However it is very untrue to highly developed western countries, especially
if other countries could not help because they were in the same situation, and the
consequences would be much more devastating. Saying that computers could be
switched off like 100 years ago, is about as smart as claiming that cars could be run by
pedal or horse power, if gasoline ever became unavailable. In truth if there was no
gasoline for just a single day, it would kill millions, and possibly have a snowballing effect
on chaos, destruction and demise in society. Transforming a highly advanced western
society back to a computerless age from one day to the next, would actually take
decades and kill most of the population in the process.
• ChatGPT is just talk / just a chatbot: It is true that ChatGPT was specifically and
deliberately designed to not be capable of more than answering queries, and then
forgetting about them, to make it safe and easier to develop. However as outlined on this
page, this does not mean that open-sourced transformer systems of such nature cannot
be used as a basis for other systems and backyard inventions, almost in a plug-and-play
manner, to interface e.g. with image systems, code and ML tools, intermediary self-
training neural nets and so on, which make use of all its demonstrated and very real
capabilities, such as to write complex computer code, skills of reasoning and
understanding, knowledge about science, technology the physical world and so forth.
ChatGPT is all just talk, because that is a design constraint, not a technological
constraint. In many ways, given a certain degree of advancement of the language model,
having it run on its own and improve upon itself would be much easier and feasible, albeit
unpredictable and potentially dangerous. People who do not understand this to be true
are often laymen, who only have a crude grasp on very basic and obvious facts about
machine learning, and they cannot easily see past this to bridge the gap with deeper and
more fine-grained insights from the fields. Which makes it a rather annoying talking point.

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• AGI cannot do/be X without a body: This is another dumb thing to claim in a day and
age where the whole world operates through internet communication. Entire companies
can be founded and run simply through text messages, not even speaking of the fact that
years old AI tech can flawlessly synthesize voice and video already. Humans can be
instructed to do arbitrary things, legal or illegally, given they are paid for it adequately. It
would also be foolish to say that ChatGPT cannot really understand the world, without
physically experiencing it. This was somewhat of a popular theory 20 years ago, long
before the age of hyper-dimensional semantic spaces and ML reasoning engines, and
eventually ChatGPT proving the exact opposite to be true on a large unambiguous scale.
Like we learn things to be true about the world by sensory experience, ChatGPT, in its
still limited capacity, has learned and understood this truth by proxy and is able to reason
and derive new conclusions from it. At this point it is unmistakably clear that AGI does not
need a body in any way.
• blind faith in media and institutions, authority over reason, truth by majority
vote/repetition: Possibly the only example in recent history, where disaster -> outcry ->
solution was not followed through in precisely this order was the Covid pandemic.
However as we have all witnessed, it was driven by poor politics, censorship and
propaganda, government disinformation spiraling out of control and the bankrupt, dying
and profit-hungry legacy media amplifying it like a braindead parrot. Do you even have a
14-day supply of food and water, like your government recommends? If not, please at
least build a supply for 14 days. The Future of Life Institute (an organization dedicated to
the survival of mankind) recently wrote an open letter to stop ChatGPT, because the
dangers are widely acknowledged by experts, and it was signed by many highly
intelligent and influential people, such as Elon Musk. There are also many podcasts and
articles of people with PhDs repeating some of the points made on this page. To
summarize: media and government have been proven to follow a strict scheme of
disaster -> outcry -> solution. But if the disaster is large-scale destruction of human
civilization, you cannot put your faith into this scheme and hence you cannot put it into
media or government. But you can put your faith in logic and reason instead. Please try to
understand this, without looking for a bunch of other people to independently replicate
this conclusion to you. It simply makes sense because you can argue it to be true, and no
one has the power to un-argue it. That is called logic.

other classic prepper threats

• solar flares occur in exceptional strength every few hundred years and can destroy a
large portion of the power grid as well as electronics

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• nuclear EMPs are able to destroy electronic devices in the US or Europe with a single
warhead
• world wars and nuclear explosions could result from bad politics and errors

What to Expect
June 1, 2023

abrupt collapse
One day you might wake up and the internet is gone. Power might be gone, TV and radio
stations are offline. No one knows why or how. Stores will be overrun and goods necessary
for survival such as food, water, hardware supplies, medicine and gasoline will be sold out.
People will be out on the streets and observing anyone’s actions every day in great detail.

After 1-2 weeks, the government hands out emergency food reserves. After at most 4
weeks those reserves will be exhausted. Supply chains might be restored at this point to
some extent. However the time investment, risks and money needed to obtain food will
increase immediately and dramatically. For example in order to be handed out a day’s ration
of food, every day you might be required to stand several hours in line and you will not be
allowed to take more than for yourself. On your way home you might get robbed. This
situation might worsen with time, such that obtaining food becomes too impractical and
dangerous. People are beginning to starve after 3-6 months.

In urban areas, people will organize into mobs and gangs to steal from each other. It is
difficult to predict how much this will be an issue. We know from historic examples, such as
The Great Chinese Famine in 1958, that the police and military will not entirely break down
and be able to maintain law and order to some degree. On the other hand, population
density was much much lower back then, and high density is the main driver for mob and
gang activity. Depending on where you live, ordinary neighbors could take up arms, team up
to knock door by door and check homes for hoarded food, given that the situation for them
was desperate enough. In any case, crime of any nature will increase several fold. Looting,
theft, violence and burglary will become a common everyday occurrence, and walking alone
outside will be much more dangerous. People will gravitate towards teaming up by family,
ethnicity, religion or nationality and manufacture reasons to mistreat people outside of their
group. Family and friends might betray you given that desperation or incentive is high
enough.

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The Great Chinese Famine, purely driven by government mismanagement, reduced the
population by about 10% within two years. How many people will starve to death in what
time frame is hard to predict and depends on your individual country’s resources. However
some people guesstimate it to be around 40-60% within a year, some even as high as 90%.

gradual slow collapse

The main difference in a slow collapse would be prolonged ambiguity of the situation, and
hence uncertainty how to react to it. It might manifest at first as a recession or economic
crisis, or partial and sporadic dysfunctions of economic and communication systems,
maybe mixed with wars, eventually leading to the same outcome. This might continue for
several years. Prices will make life unsustainable rather slowly over time.

The upside of this is, that the threats and problems are a lot less imminent and extreme. On
the other hand by prolonging the situation, your preparations don’t give you as much of an
advantage to outlive the people who are unprepared, particularly so if you are poor to begin
with. You might lose your job, car or home long before starvation becomes widespread. You
have to expect, that the actions of other people against you will become more intelligent
and organized over time. Also an ambiguous situation might seduce you to make poor long-
term decisions. For example you might be inclined to live off your supplies without
restocking them, supposedly only for a short while, rather than paying 2x or 5x the food
prices that you are used to. Or you might feel that it is necessary to pay a lot of money on
insulin and medicine for your sick relatives, or on pet food for your dog, rather than eating
your dog. You might feel inclined to expose yourself as a prepper and share your supplies, if
there is hope that the situation might end very soon and not continue forever.

The only solution to this problem is to act with foresight and reason devoid of emotion, and
to make tough choices even when they are not really necessary at the time.

The Plan
November 4, 2023

Second to buying a large stockpile of food, planning is the most important aspect of
prepping and can be highly individual to your situation. Particularly it makes a difference
how rich you are and whether or not you can afford to bug out into an extremely rural area,
or already happen to live there. Also you might be living in unusual circumstances, such as

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where water is scarce, which this guide will not really further explore. For simplicity sake, it
is assumed that you are not wealthy, reluctant to spend money on prepping, and live in a
western country and water-rich urban area, like 80% of the population in Europe or the US.

skills fitness
SURVIVAL
medicine equipment
redundancy
water
food
weapons
shelter & security
secrecy seclusion isolation
planning, foresight & reason
close relationships, trust & leadership

Your priorities in prepping should be roughly aligned with the graphic you see above. You
can’t expect to survive, if the very select few people knowing about your supplies will not
follow your plan and betray you. You are doomed when reacting emotionally and
unreasonably, and don’t have a plan that deals with every eventuality long before it occurs.
You will be raided by hungry people if you don’t make it your life’s mission for your supplies
and prepping efforts to remain a secret. You can’t protect your supplies without weapons in
a secure home. Finally it might be possible to survive without having hidden backup
supplies, but it is still a huge risk. Equally, not having antibiotics or equipment like walkie-
talkies might be a disadvantage, but it can still work out with a bit of luck. Last of all, skills
and fitness are nice to have, but require enormous time-investments with comparably little
benefit.

To sum it up, you should do everything you can, but not waste all your time on buying
gadgets online. Or watching Youtube videos on how to make fire with sticks and build log
cabins or forge knives from scratch. Most popular prepping and survival material online can
actually be misleading and is often not helpul. On a very tight budget you should

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concentrate mostly on food, cheap weapons and water.

select people to trust and let them in on it

For starters, this should be at most the people who live in your home, like your wife or
father, and worst-case it might just be you. The less people know about it the better.

You have to realize, that for every brother or sister you warn and let in on your efforts, they
will have several people very dear to them who they will want to protect with all their heart
and might if the disaster strikes. Their reactions to the subject are likely to be very
emotional, quick, inconsiderate, judgemental, careless and presumptuous. But worst of all,
most people will react with ignorance and disbelief to your warning. Most people are highly
likely to not take the subject serious at all, no matter how dramatic, elaborate and
convincing you explain it. And even if serious events were to unfold, they will downplay the
gravity of the situation, and still behave carelessly. From the family and friends I know well
and trust, I can easily tell that at best only 1 out of 10 would pour even just 200 Euros into
building their own stock of supplies, after hearing my advice. But 9 out of 10 would
remember my warning in a blinks notice for the rest of their life, and run down into my home
to take food when it came down to it. If you talk with friends or family about prepping, or
maybe even just drop a hint at the doomsday scenario, they will easily be careless enough
to chit-chat with their neighbors or coworkers about it. Or they might indirectly reveal it to
relatives and other people, by somehow socializing with them about related topics. After
starving for several weeks, all those people will suddenly show astonishing and unworldly
powers of memory recall. Nothing you say will remain forgotten.

Telling other people about an apocalypse and urging them to prep for it, will be highly
ineffective and only have a snowballing effect, resulting in a large number of
unprepared people to raid your home and your supplies to diminish within days,
instead of months and years. This helps no one.

You should take your chances only when the situation demands it, or if there is an unusual
and extreme relationship of trust, e.g. a brother who lives alone and has no additional
relatives.

You should have many intimate talks with the people you let in, explain the situation and
your plan to them with great detail, emphasis and seriousness. You must make them
understand that you have spent months into planning the situation out, and how other
people pose a grave danger in case of societal collapse and famine. There must be no

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grounds for them to question your competence or reasoning, or else they might act
carelessly out of line when they feel safe about it and eventually betray your group
accidentally or with intent.

planning, foresight and reason

You will find a lot of advice on this website. However truly planning out the situation must
still be done by yourself, by running the various scenarios through your own mind. You have
to imagine what will be like, how people will react given different circumstances, how your
close friends might feel and what to say to them when they call you in desperation or for
help. Where will you get the water from, who guards your home, how will they cope with it.
What are your neighbors like. How can you defend against attackers, reinforce the doors,
not get seen, how to not stand out with your actions. What consequences will it have if you
are attacked and have to act in self-defense. And so on and forth. Those are things that no
guide can truly prepare you for.

All eventualities must be accounted for, and it is important to make tough choices when it
comes down to it. This might mean to make them even if there was still hope for things to
play out differently. Empathy, emotion and hope have no place, in a scenario where the odds
play against it, and the consequences are life or death. With perfect reason it might make
sense to leave your sick grandfather behind, or your pet, or any sort of similar thing that
feels very difficult and unethical to do, but actually acts towards the greater benefit of your
group. Nothing should be done by gut feelings or other forms of short-sightedness. Old
notions of social cooperation, community and intrinsic trust should be questioned and
reevalued at every moment’s notice.

It is important to not wait until disaster strikes, in order to be cautious and vigilant about
your actions. Taking it all serious should start today.

secrecy, seclusion, isolation

Human civilization thrives through cooperation. But this is only true when there is a certain
level of food security and availability of resources (such as it is still the case with normal
disasters or other classic prepper scenarios). In a doomsday scenario such as outlined with
AGI however, you can expect that most people will gradually or dramatically switch to
destructive, deceitful, violent or other antisocial behaviors. Therefore, the greatest threat
you face in a societal collapse are simply other people and being exposed to them. The best
strategy is then to just avoid them.

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Even if there are initial advantages in going a cooperative route, the risk you are taking does
not outweigh the benefit. Eventually the same people willing to help you will raid you for
food if they run out. And you only make a name for yourself as someone “who can help”
and likely also has food supplies stocked.

Your first priority should be physical distance. Prep and bug out into a secluded vacation
home in the wilderness if you can. Or maybe you know a relative in a remote location, to
whom you can build a high level of trust from now on, and eventually let him in on your
prepping plans. The higher the population density is where you live, the more you should
bend your mind around it in advance, to somehow be able to get to a safer, stocked,
prepared and more rural shelter on doomsday. Generally speaking, staying in a urban
environment is a very very bad situation. But in any case, you should stay in a very secure
place where your supplies are and where you can defend them. So if it can’t be helped to
remain in an urban area, then you have to deal with it.

Other means of avoiding people are simply keeping quiet and a low profile. Don’t behave
suspiciously. Observe your neighbors. Don’t give away cues such as a noisy generator,
being the only home with lights on and power, hauling large amounts supplies, suddenly
new solar panels or other fixtures, and maybe even a smoking chimney. Ask for food like
other people but not too much. You want to talk with people as little as possible, and be
seen as little as possible. But absolutely never being seen and never talking to anyone could
make you stand out as well.

Don’t chit-chat, ask for advice or otherwise talk on ham-radio on common frequencies
without extreme reasons. You wouldn’t even guess how easy it can be to identify and locate
people when nothing of consequence was said.

Beware of other “preppers” especially, as they are inherently more dangerous than normal
people. Most of them are unlikely to have more than 1 month of supplies, but they know all
the tricks to identify other preppers and get food.

Never talk about prepping to anyone, never give away food to anyone, always play dumb.
Nothing could be more critical to your survival than this.

redundancy
Friends, mobs or organized gangs might raid your place eventually. This is why you have to
keep a certain larger amount of your food and a small second set of items such as weapons

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as backup, and hide it somewhere safe. Possible hiding places:

• bury 200L drums where no one sees it (reinforce with wood from outside to prevent
collapse)
• erect a new drywall in a corner
• inside unused chimneys
• ceiling spaces
• under a large pile of rubble in an cramped attic

Only drums are really rodent-proof, so hiding bags of rice in the walls can be a risk.
Rodents will start chewing through all packaging at the same time and spread dangerous
disease with their feces. They can climb walls vertically and get inside homes in impossible
spaces.

Ultimately finding safe hiding spots, other than burying drums outside, is challenging. If the
situation was such that the risk to be raided was suddenly extremely high, then even just
putting the backup supplies into places that are counter-intuitive and hard to reach or check
could be very helpful. Thieves might feel most content with stealing your main stock and
probably will not waste time on looking for any unlikely backups. Similarly desperate hungry
mobs or neighbors are unlikely to think as far as to check your whole house for a hidden
stash.

shelter & security

As mentioned earlier, you should always stay at the place where your supplies are safe. And
if at all possible get very far away from people at the same time.

You should leave your place as little as possible and have always someone guard it.

Sleep at somewhat or entirely different times so that people can be on guard 24/7.

If guns are outlawed, have other weapons accessible in many places, such as spears in
corners and crossbows to shoot through windows or doors. Keep a folding knife and pepper
spray in your pocket at all times.

If there are many sections in your house or multiple buildings, concentrate beds, people and
storage all in one corner or section that is easy to defend and hard to break into. Install two
drop bars behind the main doors from the inside. Unfortunately there are many variations of

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houses, rural or remote, so it is hard to give more specific advice about this. It is possible to
break and overcome many common types of doors or windows in a matter of seconds, often
even without any tools at all.

fitness
Do weight lifting, run marathons. Quit smoking, drinking, caffeine or drugs. A lot of
medication like antidepressants, benzodiazepines, pain medication or statins are heavily
overprescribed and questionable to use to begin with. They might be deteriorating your
health and produce severe withdrawal symptoms. If you are obese lose weight. You can’t
expect to survive if severely sick and dependent on medication that will run out. Blood
pressure medication can produce withdrawal effects as well. So if it is within the realm of
reason, you should try to somehow fix your life and stress levels today, so that you can
reduce your dose and maybe quit all together. If you are too old or sick, you should get
comfortable with the thought to sacrifice yourself when it comes down to it, and save your
children or relatives instead by following this guide.

skills
As mentioned, skills can be deceiving in that they will only be marginally useful, often cost
you a lot of time to aquire and bother with, or give you a false sense of competence, secuity
and alternative options. I will list some things here that are short to explain and have some
value, to not clog up the other pages with information of low priority.

Food preservation and spoilage

By submerging foods in water and sealing the container oxygen is removed. By adding salt
and/or vinegar, harmful microbes are put at a disadvantage. If this is done in jars to produce,
a process called fermentation (via lactic acid bacteria) will start. Cultivating this
microorganism provides somewhat of a guarantee that other microorganisms will die and
the food will be safe to eat for a year or so. Fermentation will still occur at 3% salt and 3%
acetic acid solution, but it will be significantly slowed down. 1% of both will still work out for
a high success rate, or 3% of either or. Sugar only works to preserve food if used in extreme
quantities, e.g. in jams, and otherwise it accelerates microbial growth, especially yeast,
which are naturally present on some fruits. Similarly salt and vinegar do not kill microbes, in
concentrations that you can still consider edible/palatable, if it wasn’t for lactic acid
fermentation to outcompete the other microbes. The goal in food preservation is therefore
either to (lactic acid) ferment, or to remove water entirely, or both. Another method would

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be pressure-cooked jars, which relies on heat and specialized equipment.

To cure meat, rub it in as much salt as possible, ideally 2-3x in a row every hour, then smoke
it over a fire for a few hours or dry it in the sun or over an heating oven. Just using salt
without smoking or drying is rather prone to failure, even if you are curing whole cuts (which
are sterile on the inside), and even if you do 6 rubs with salt throughout the day. Even if
cured, as in salami, less-dry or humidity-exposed meat can develop molds on the outside
which may or may not be safe to eat. Recognizing those molds without extensive experience
is possible, but not ultimately safe. The safest mold color is white, while green might be so
and so, and black, pink or orange is rather dangerous.

Generally speaking, fermented foods will have a very distinct, slightly odd but still pleasant
taste, like Kimchi. Actually spoiled food that is not safe to eat can almost always be
recognized by a very strong and repugnant smell and taste. Food that tastes excessively
odd, but not outright repugnant, might still be safe to eat in small quantities but could cause
strong digestive issues in larger quantities. This guideline is only true to naturally preserved
food that is not older than 2 years.

Canned food where the can has bulged could be very dangerous and should be discarded.

If you are thinking about food preservation, you have to realize that there is hardly any place
at all were this food will come from. Unless of course you live in a rural area or the
wilderness. Trees will be picked blank, your horticulture will be raided empty. And it is not
like you have a pig to slaughter or boar to hunt that you could cure and live off through
winter time. For most people, those skills can hardly ever be put to use in the heat of a
doomsday scenario. What counts is only the stockpile of food you have in your cellar.
Always keep that in mind.

Water
November 4, 2023

Water is the most important resource to have. In northern Europe, the US and Russia, it can
simply be obtained from nearby streams and rooftops. However the water needs to be
purified, or else you are at high risk of developing serious disease. If your situation is
different, please inform yourself about alternative methods to secure water. It is realistic to
exepect that clean tap water will still be available some of the time to some degree.

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• at least 2x 200L drums to store water

• 30+ day supply of bottled water

water purification
• chlorine (bleach), 2-8mg/L
• iodine (alternative), 16-30mg/L
• camping straw-filters (<=0.1 micron), filters microbes as well as radioactive particles
• reusable plastic coffee filters for prefiltering

Chlorine and iodine, even if used beyond listed concentrations, are very very rare to
produce serious health effects, if then mainly in people of poor health or old age. Adding
more chlorine shortens the time you have to wait until the water is disinfected. For a high
concentration (6mg/L, 1.8 drops per liter with 7% bleach), at least 30 minutes are needed if
not several hours. For a low concentration (1mg/L), several days are needed and the water
must be very clean to begin with. Prefiltering the water reduces bad byproducts from
chlorination.

In a survival situation, high amounts of chlorine must be used, which makes it taste rather
intolerable and undrinkable. Over time the chlorine will “air out”.

Straw-filters can be infused with iodine upon first use to make them more effective, by
running a 1L solution of 100mg several times through. Dirty water needs to be pre-filtered
with cloths and coffee filters, to remove particulate matter and solid material which would
diminish your straw-filter’s max capacity. Since the water is already cleaned, add only 2mg/L
of chlorine (0.6 drops per liter if your bleach is 7%) to the filtered water and wait at least 2
hours before you drink it. Straw-filters also filter pathogens, but not all of them. Their main
advantage is to somewhat reduce radioactive particles, some pollutants and to provide
better prefiltering for chlorination.

Food
November 30, 2023

In order to survive, you only need two basic foods:

1. meat (can be partially substituted with other animal products)

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2. carbohydrate source

Please forget anything you have learned about nutrition that would contradict this. Unlike
meat, most vegetables are devoid of most vitamins, proteins and fats you need to survive.
Getting variety is nice, but overcomplicates things and can be misleading to your
investments. Simply stocking up more meat and more rice means longer survival time.
Putting that money instead into canned spinach and Brussels sprouts does not.

To deal with food expiration, the following techniques make sense:

• if you own a pet, build a 2-year stock of pet food for it and cycle the old cans
• freeze-dried survival food has a shelf life of 20-30 years
• rice, most beans, lentils, split peas and oats can last up to 30 years
• build a stock of canned foods and oils and continuously eat it yourself

It is important to note, that only a few foods have very high shelf lives:

• canned food 5 years, possibly much much longer but carries very small risk
• rice, oats and pinto beans 5 years or longer, 30 years if oxygen & humidity removers are
used

Other foods such as oils, nuts, cured meats, dried milk, protein powder, and so on only last
2 years.

A sensible daily calculation for an adult would look like this:

• 250g rice (900kcal)

• 100g lentils, split peas or pinto beans (300kcal)
• 200g cat food, pure meat (250kcal)
• 40g sugar (160kcal)
• 40g cooking oil (350kcal)
• one-a-day vitamin

Total: 1960 kcal

Light physical activity only makes up a small percentage of your kcal requirements and can
be ignored.

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It would only cost 1100 Euros for 3 people to survive on this diet for 266 days, whereas 400
Euro are from stockpiled cat food, and 100 Euro is from stockpiled cooking oil. As you cycle
those foods, this money is not actually lost, and you are only looking at a total of 600 Euros
in rice, legumes and sugar to give you an additional 9 months of survival time for the next
20-30 years. In my country a kilo of rice costs 1.50 Euro, this information can be used to
extrapolate prices from in yours.

I have put this plan first, because cost is the main issue that keeps people from prepping.
Beware that dog food or cheap cat food might contain substantial amounts of wheat and
vegetable refuse, which lowers its nutritional value accordingly. Proper cat food however
contains only meat, including important organ meats and fats and it is fortified with
vitamins, antioxidants and trace minerals, such as vitamin D, zinc, taurine and iodine.
However as dogs tend to be much larger than cats, the amount of food you can stockpile
and continuously cycle before it hits the expiration date is also much larger. 200g cat food
roughly equals only 125-150g of actual meat, as it is cut with water and inedible parts such
as hooves. With dog food it could be as low as 20%.

If you don’t own a pet however, things can get much more expensive. Generally speaking,
canned foods and other prepper food make a rather poor diet by 21th century standards. So
cycling those foods in your own diet might not be an option. In this case, the most economic
long-term investments are the foods that have a 30 year shelf life and whatever amounts of
cooking oil and other foodstuff you can cycle within 2 years. If your can however, you should
cycle at least some canned meats in your diet. Without any meat, you will suffer from severe
malnutrition within 3-6 months, depending on your age and health, with a lot of luck at most
you have a year until you perish.

• If you have absolutely no strategy for meat, buy a large stockpile of canned pure-meat
cat food initially and restock a fraction of it every year, regardless of the fact that it will
go to waste. A year worth for one person only costs 200 Euros, that’s 80kg of meat, 60kg
if you account for poor meat quality. Stock older than 5 years can still be valuable and
better than nothing.
• Buy rice, beans, lentils and split peas in high quantities to last each person at least a year,
and store them in large sealable plastic drums in a low temperature environment. Even if
no oxygen removers are used, chances are that prepacked, dry and cool stored rice and
legumes will be edible 20+ years. If you have more money, buy double or triple that
amount. Remember, you might be stolen from so you need to have some level of
redudancy. Beans and other legumes are rather poisonous if uncooked. Beans have a

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long cooking time (up to 90 minutes) and need extensive soaking (up to 12 hours) to
reduce it. Rice (20 minutes) tends to be of much higher value and is cheaper, followed by
black/red lentils then split peas (30 minutes). All of those can be soaked as well. It is
advisable to cook beans and chickpeas only once a week to save energy.

Freeze-dried foods would be an excellent option, if they didn’t sell for 10x the cost. A kilo
of meat often costs 50 Euros instead of 5 Euros if freeze-dried and the same goes for other
foods. Freeze-dried cheap emergency food rations are also garbage: 95% wheat flour and
sugar. Depending on the size of your family, scale of your prepping and luxory you can
afford, it might make sense to consider a freeze-drier for 3000 Euros instead. However
shelf life might be much shorter in a DIY setup, since conditions are less hygienic and the
foodstuff will rehydrate from the humidity in the air. I am not an expert on freeze-dried
foods, but I believe them to be questionable due to exorbitant cost and various other issues.

A gas stove is recommended for cooking, since wood can run out and it draws attention:

• 2 x 11kg propane gas bottles, lasts about a year to cook for a small family
• propane cooking stove, with suitable hose and regulator

Salt and vinegar can’t hurt, is very cheap and it does not expire.

MSM flavored vegetable powder goes a very long way and gives your meals a nice and
compelling taste. On days you eat rice, I can highly recommend 5g tomato powder per
person (only for the taste). With some more vinegar and salt, it is surprisingly good.

horticulture
Farming your own food is dangerous and should be avoided. If you live remotely, chances
are that you will already have good access to agricultural resources that don’t make it to the
cities, like grains, fruits or milk, which makes planting food yourself somewhat unnecessary.
If you live in or near an urban area, it will only attract thieves and incentivize them to raid
you. However you might have luck with a plant called topinambur, which few people can
recognize, and hence can be disguised as a weed or flower. The tubers can be planted like
potatoes, but are winter hardy and can be dug up and eaten all year. Use balanced NPK
chemical fertilizer to increase yield by 3-6x. Only start horticulture, if you somehow can very
effectively hide large amounts of crops on your property from neighbors, or if there hardly
are any neighbors to begin with.

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gathering
Foods on this list will only barely or only partially provide the energy you burn while
obtaining them, or their availability is extremely poor. Also some of them have very poor
nutritional value. This is why it makes only very limited sense to resort to these foods.

• snails (need to be fed clean vegetables for 2-3 days, only av. if not cold on rainy days)
• acorns can be leached with water several days and times in a row to make them edible
• the ultra-thin cambium layer in tree bark is edible (some trees are deadly poisonous!)
• nuts (only very sparsely available after harvest season)
• mushrooms (dangerous!; mostly only available on few select rainy days in a year)

Tree sprouts, mosses and weeds provide too little energy to bother with.

hunting & fishing

Hunting and fishing only makes sense if you live very very remotely or near a huge lake or
coastline, and otherwise you should never attempt it. A viable hunting strategy would be to
set up dozens and dozens of wire traps in your forest, check them every day and attempt to
kill the predators that raid your traps. This takes a lot of time, draws attention and puts you
far away from your home. Stalking large game is even more difficult and very time-
consuming. However illegal passive fishing techniques, such as running large gill nets
through a river to be checked the other day, could be very profitable. Generally speaking,
legal fishing techniques like rods are very time-consuming, ineffective and useless, even if
used at a very high skill level with extensive experience and knowledge about what spots to
fish in. For hunting (and to a lesser degree also gathering) to become a viable strategy, it
requires that you have little to no competition and access to vast amounts of natural
resources (such as when living in the Alaska wilderness). This is unrealistic in most parts of
the western world and most people’s situations.

Weapons
December 18, 2023

You should own guns with suppressors, a stockpile of ammo, a machete, a combat or
hunting knife and pepper spray. Guns are always vastly superior, in any situation.

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However most countries outlaw guns, which is why it makes sense to consider other
options.

guns
• assault rifle (e.g. AR-15)
• handgun (e.g. Glock-19)
• silencer (search for: Napa 4003, solvent trap fuel filter)
• hollow-point bullets for handgun
• soft-point bullets for rifles

3D printed guns or DIY guns like the MAC-10 do not make any sense, because it is too
difficult and time-consuming to make them operate somewhat reliably. If budget is tight,
any handgun will do. Being able to conceal and hide your gun should be a main priority.

Hollow-point / soft-point bullets shred internal organs upon impact, and are therefore vastly
superior in stopping power to FMJ ammunition.

bladed weapons
• machete (Tramonina, 14 inch)
• combat, hunting or comparable large kitchen knife

Machetes and swords should be modified with an angle grinder to make them shorter than
40cm, lightweight and suitable for thrust attacks, so that they are wieldable indoors.

A large folding knife might be handy to have as a backup, and if the economic situation has
not yet truly escalated.

pepper spray
• 3 or more cans of cheap pepper spray

Pepper spray only works at very close range, and there are huge quality differences
between the brands in spraying distance and dispersal. Even cheap pepper sprays however
are just as powerful to stop an opponent, given that you manage to hit the face/eyes. The
catch here however is, that the spraying beam can be dodged with fair chance, and there is
a period of 15-45 seconds or so where the assailant experiences pain from it, but can still

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fight through it and inflict serious harm on you before essentially going mostly or entirely
blind (which is not guaranteed to happen). In lack of experience, attackers might also not be
very intimidated by a tiny spraying can, and might just take their chances. The great danger
therefore lies in a situation where pepper spray is your only weapon, your opponent is
armed with a knife or gun, and the stakes are not just venting off some road-rage or stealing
a purse, but bare survival. In this case using the spray will provoke them to continue their
attack with more speed and aggression, and to inflict lethal wounds on you, before truly
losing most of their vision. You should therefore not rely on pepper spray alone (or at all), if
you are in a potential life-or-death situation. Wind can also make the pepper spray stream
unpredictable. But even without wind there is always some minor degree of blowback, and it
can cause intense coughing to everyone (or worse) if used indoors. Overall, no matter the
situation, pepper spray is pretty effective, but its a giant risk if used alone against an armed
opponent.

However, there are a lot of less dangerous situations, where one can imagine that pepper
spray will be preferable. For example if you are in conflict with your neighbors or even
friends who accuse you of hoarding and demand to enter your home. Also anyone unarmed
who might pick a fight with you and has no strong motive to seriously injure you. This is
where you really want an option like pepper spray, that can resolve the situation without any
permanent harm.

arrowed weapons
Weapons that use arrows are very slow, bulky to use, inaccurate to shoot and vastly
inferior to guns.

They also have questionable stopping power, because they cannot penetrate bones and
they don’t shred internal organs. However two options exist that are somewhat viable at a
medium distance:

• 80lbs pistol crossbows with DIY 10 round magazines and broadhead tips
• Scuba Ringer, a two-shot harpoon handgun

Although it is possible to fit regular bows with 5 round magazines, or to hold 5 arrows in
your shooting hand, it cannot be stressed enough that they are too bulky to use, too slow to
reload and require too much skill to be a viable option. In absence of guns, pistol crossbows
can work well at a max range of 15-30 meters and a “fast” reload time (below 1s). This
could be advantageous if shooting outdoors or from a window. However at closer range

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indoors, a machete or large knife might be more versatile and devastating if the opponent is
not vastly superior to you in physical strength. You have to expect, that the opponent might
continue to charge at you even after 2-4 shots have been landed, even if he might die from
them much later on.

Arrowed weapons are not certain to work immediately. Their main advantage is to intimidate
the opponent, by being able to hurt them from a distance where they cannot harm you, or
being able to hurt them when you would not stand a chance in melee combat.

Pulling crossbows and bows might be too difficult for women or weak people, particularly
bows. Shooting bows accurately requires a lot of practice, but crossbows much less so.

Without a magazine, arrowed weapons are rather useless.

But even with a magazine, their performance is so much worse than guns, that you might
not want to bother with them at all, or only in special circumstances.

Hunters usuallly wait anywhere from 1 - 16 hours for a deer to die that has been wounded
by a single shot. A carefully placed shot to the lungs or heart might take 0.5-2 hours to kill,
a gut shot might take 2-12 hours or more. In lucky instances, the deer might parish within
minutes. In this time the deer remains vital enough to escape to great distances, thus
disturbing it within this time is generally ill adivised.

other improvised weapons

• polearms/spears built from kitchen knives and broom sticks
• pry bars
• pipes and dumbells
• shovel sticks and garden tools
• baseball bat

The main focus of improvised weapons should be to make them very lightweight and
swingable or thrustable/throwable. A longer weapon tends to be superior to a shorter one.
Prybars and pipes can be very painful on impact without a handle, which could be wrapped
from duct tape and/or paracord. Epoxy glue and pipe clamps could be used to manufacture
polearms.

Other garden tools, such as pitch forks, axes, or shovel sticks can also be used and provide

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a huge advantage against an opponent without any weapon or a short weapon. But as
explained, better options exist.

poison
While it might not make any sense to use poison in self defense, knowledge about poisons
could be an advantage to deter theft:

• rosary peas contain abarin, delayed onset, lethal after 48 hours

• monkshood can induce hallucinations and even death upon skin contact - an old arrow
poison
• foxgloves can easily lead to death if swallowed

Stocked supplies such as packs of beans and rice could be labeled with a warning about the
poison and a numeric code, giving the impression that it is not safe to eat without
understanding the code.

It is plausible that soft drinks could be poisoned with digitalis to exert revenge on thieves.

Poisoning arrowheads with monkshood is dangerous and might be too slow to act to be
effective.

further considerations
Killing or severely harming people is greatly discouraged, even if you acted in self-
defense and are backed by the law. This has two reasons. When law enforcement capacity
is overwhelmed, mobs, angry family and neighbors will have much more freedom to exert
revenge and take the law into their own hands against you - by whatever flimsy
interpretation. On the other hand the authorities will gravitate towards punishing anyone
without due process or investigation, and much more severely so, even if those laws hardly
make any sense anymore in a collapsed society. Gangs may or may not communicate about
which homes they are targeting for food in advance. Law enforcement may or may not
confiscate your weapons and equipment and put you into a prison camp, where you will
likely starve to death or be killed. The main idea therefore in using weapons, is to deter
attackers with superior attack power, and to somehow manage to still fly under the radar.

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Equipment
January 5, 2024

This list only includes items which are not mentioned on the other pages, like “food” or
“water”.

minimal / essential
• headlamps and inspection lamps
• 100x AA and AAA batteries
• camping USB solar chargers with battery (50-100€)
• 50x lighter
• 3x tarpaulin
• 10x zip ties
• 5x wet wipes
• ziplock bags
• 10x duct tape
• 10x bicycle tire
• paracord of various sizes
• cargo bikes, bike trailers and large carts
• a variety of tools, like hammers, nails, bolt cutter, cordless angle grinder, etc.
• cordless drill, screws, drills
• pry bar
• large axe
• fire extinguisher
• paper roadmap
• 2x 10W Baofeng ham radio walkie talkie (UV-13 V2 or similar)
• double-sized antennas for walkie talkies
• printout of common frequencies and frequency plans
• several more 200L plastic barrels
• 10x liquid (dish washing) soap
• 500kg FIBC bags or similar

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• sturdy warm clothing an shoes for winter

• blankets
• 3L denatured alcohol

Walkie talkies of any type transmit speech unencrypted. CTCS and DCS modes block your
own devices from receiving other devices, not the other way around. For your own
communication, you should use the far end of the Baofeng frequency band that inferior
devices or devices with region-locked firmware (Aliexpress has unlocked, Amazon might be
locked) often cannot receive (e.g. above 512Mhz). Scanning hundreds of channels at the
same time requires special equipment that next to no one has. On the other hand, as long
as you press the button, anyone can listen in on your conversation if they scan through all of
the possible channels sequentially and hit your channel in this moment. For Baofeng UV-13
there are almost ten thousand channels, which makes it highly unlikely to get noticed. For
cheaper 0.5W devices like PMR446 there are only about 20 channels, which take a few
seconds to scan. This is why you should only speak very very briefly, and ideally in code and
without accent or mannerisms while not using a common 0.5W device. Never reveal names,
locations or other details. Programming channels into these devices and toying with them
will keep you busy for a week. In a city, the range of a 10W device can vary by particular
location from 4km to 12km. A 0.5W device might have less than 1km of range. Double-sized
antennas can extend the range anywhere from 25-100%. Ideal conditions, such as open
fields and mountain or roof tops, can possibly increase the range by an order of magnitude.
A “repeater” is a station operated by radio amateurs, which sits in an ideal spot and allows
communication over a certain channel that needs to be configured in a special way.
Sometimes those repeaters are chained together and allow communication across the
country. If you want to listen on others, try to tune in on repeaters, PMR446 channels and
around designated emergency channels from your country’s frequency plan.

optional / advanced
• 60L steel barrels for gasoline and diesel to escape or maintain car
• serious grid-independent solar setup (300-1000W panels) with multiple 100Ah+ batteries
• crank / pedal generator for charging + 12V batteries
• mains power charger for your solar setup
• chain saw
• woodstove

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Important note on diesel and fuel: In EU countries, diesel expires after 6-12 months due to
the added biodiesel. Severe damage to your engine from sludge is quite likely after that
time period. Additives don’t really make a big difference. However, heating oil is perfectly
equivalent to diesel and might not contain biodiesel. Hence its shelf life would still be about
10 years. Gasoline can be used for many years without engine damage, but its combustible
energy degrades steadily with time and it might stop being viable after 3-5 years. In an
emergency, diesel engines can also directly run on clean vegetable oil or waste motor oil,
but for longevity it is not recommended.

Solar basics: Panels are not a usable power source on their own, and always need to
charge batteries with an extra device (sometimes all-in-one only in camping panels). You
need an inverter to convert to mains power voltage, or devices that power with the specific
voltage of your setup (12V or 24V, rarely more). 36V panels can charge 24V or 12V, 18V
panels can only charge 12V if they are not wired in series. Beware that efficiency can drop
to as low as 1% of max panel wattage in winter in the northern hemisphere. Batteries on the
other hand don’t store a whole lot of power. So you might quickly run out of it in a matter of
days or hours, if there is little sun. You might be able to run a small fridge with a 300W
panel setup and maybe a very energy-efficient freezer with a 1500W panel setup, but only
barely and not with a all-year guarantee. Cooking water and rice is possible, but as a rule of
thumb you should always use gas for heat generation and never use solar, because of the
extreme power demand. Microwaves run on most 4000W inverters (which only have 2000W
continuous output), while water cookers usually need 3000W inverters (1500W actual).
Batteries degrade in quality with time, especially due to deep discharges, and may need to
be replaced after as little as 4 years (lead-acid). For maximum longevity, never discharge
below 60-80%. This would equal to 4x 75Ah batteries for just running a small AAA+ fridge
under ideal sun conditions and several more batteries if you use power more extensively. A
100W panel setup with battery and inverter can mostly only run lights, USB charging and
small electronics. It costs about 300 Euros. A 1000W panel setup with 6x 100Ah batteries
and 3000W inverter costs about 2000 Euros. Economically it makes more sense to use
oversized panels, because panels don’t really degrade, last 25 years minimum and can
compensate for degraded batteries, especially in winter. Beware of fantasy values for
Wattage on Amazon/Aliexpress and gross exaggerations about battery longevity by
enthusiasts and industry. Any grid rooftop solar panels can be retrofitted to charge car
batteries with a solar charger, however they are basically useless without those two
components.

Diesel generators: Are very loud and they consume a lot of diesel, which is expensive and

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will quickly run out. Unless you are willing to stockpile ridiculous quantities of it. However
they do produce a lot of power reliably, such as 2000-4000W, which solar most certainly
does not. Used generators are also very cheap. Running a diesel generator will certainly
attract thieves. So this is only something to potentially consider in a rural location, e.g. to
pump water or as a backup to solar.

DIY pedal and crank chargers: require uncommon components, which need to be bought
and build before the fact. However after the fact, it is rather difficult if not unfeasible to
improvise common devices, such as car alternators or power drills, to reasonably charge
12V batteries. Most instructions on Youtube and Facebook are fake, will not work as
expected and rather damage your components. You will be shocked how much muscle
power you have to put into charging just a small USB power bank or phone. It takes
somewhere between 300-500kcal to charge a small USB power bank that can charge a
phone 2-3x times, about the same energy as traveling 15km by bicycle. This is why hand-
cranking is not very sustainable. Pedal powered generators used to be DIY only (build
instructions), but for a quite hefty price (+300 Euros), you can now also buy some on
Amazon. They could prove very useful in addition to a camping solar panel, but they have
challenging economics when building/buying and operating them.

digital
Phones and especially books should be considered as unreliable and too time consuming to
toy with in a survival scenario. They are not immediately useful, but it also can’t really hurt
to have them and it depends on the situation.

• 256GB SD card
• phones that can read NTFS or exFAT formatted cards (e.g. Samsung, Xiaomi)
• offline Wikipedia with images (100GB file), Kiwix file & Kiwix APK
• Maps.me with maps downloaded to SD card (use vrishatech APK Extractor & Split APK
Installer)
• survival / prepping books collections (can be found on The Pirate Bay)
• ripped websites for Kiwix reader
• prepper Kiwix files from their library (more)

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Medical
July 4, 2023

essential medication
Antibiotics are of uttermost importance. Online pharmacies are decently safe to order from,
but in some countries you can also buy veterinarian antibiotic products without prescription.

• broad-spectrum antibiotics (e.g. Metronidazole👍, Gentamicin, Clarithromycin, Ampicillin)

• NSDAIDs (Aspirin, Tylenol)
• Lugol’s iodine (5% iodine, 10% potassium iodine)
• one-a-day vitamins
• first-aid kits

If you have any severe health conditions, you need to stockpile medication against it as well.

how to use
For doomsday survival purposes, please take the following simplifications as guidelines:

• all pills, except for maybe 10 year old tetracyclines, have an infinite shelf-life
• non-narcotic medicines can be safely and arbitrarily combined in 99% of cases
• antibiotics are safe and work wonders, even if taken just once or for 1-3 days
• antibiotic resistance is a hoax insofar as that it has anything to do with your behavior
• if in doubt, always administer antibiotics for serious conditions and deep wounds
• in absence of better information, take 2 whatever a day but no more than 4

In order to get the best out of your antibiotics, wait until disease has seriously manifested
and is hard to tolerate (usually day 3 or 4). Take them a couple of days until you feel better.
If disease returns, repeat. If they don’t make you feel better stop taking them or try a
different one (esp. if also experiencing weird new symptoms, such as rash or itchiness). If
the source of infection is a dirty cut or gunshot wound, take antibiotics immediately every
day for 6-10 days instead, possibly longer if symptoms have been severe. Metronidazole
and tetracyclines are the most versatile ones and also works against amoeba. But resistance
with some diseases (esp. with tetracyclines) is not uncommon.

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Take NSDAIDs only to lower fever, avoid using them for pain.

Lugol’s iodine (5% I, 10% PI) can be used for water purification (see “water”), wound
disinfection and thyroid blockade (nuclear disaster). For the latter purpose, take 130mg
throughout the day (20 drops, 1 drop = 0.05ml) for about 30 days, reduce dosage the next
30 days. After the first 30 days, the radioactive iodine has decayed 10x, the following 30
days it will decay 100x. If you are over 50 or the country/site of the nuclear disaster is very
far away from you, take only 1mg/day (2 drops) for 60 days. Thyroid blockade only protects
the thyroid against radiation, not the rest of the body. Its usefulness for bare survival is
rather small.

Control bleeding: Apply a tourniquet if the wound is severe (e.g. gunshot) and bleeding is
considerable. Tourniquets should not be left in place longer than 2 hours and removal of the
tourniquet can become life-threatening after 6 hours. Pack the wound with gauze if possibe
(but not in abdomen, chest or neck), then apply a pressure bandage. If the injured person is
not in shock and a hospital is not available, loosen the tourniquet and monitor the wound for
bleeding. The key here is to get rid of the tourniquet within 2 hours, but not at the expense
of killing the person with blood loss. Please watch more detailed instructions on how to
provide first-aid and apply tourniquets.

Wound disinfection: Try to wash the wound thoroughly with soap and clean water, rinse,
tap dry with sterile tissue. Use Lugol’s iodine on wound. If not available use alcohol in case
of severe contamination, if not use nothing. Try to avoid dressing the wound initially, if
conditions are clean and uncomplicated. Use iodine or alcohol only once initially. Slashes
from knives or machetes may only need superficial disinfection, because the blade was
clean to begin with and the grime wipes off and concentrates at the upper skin layer.
Similarly, bullets and puncture wounds might be rather clean in nature. However, as there
are many types of more severe injury, the best cleaning strategy depends on the individual
situation and further considerations are necessary. If the wound is huge, you need to be
careful with the amount of iodine you use inside the wound (as too much of it can be
poisonous) and rather resort to alcohol or washing it off with alcohol.

Surgery: I am not an expert on surgery, and you are unlikely to find any good DIY survival
books on this topic (The Survival Medicine Handbook has a small section on sewing, the
1982 US Army Special Forced Handbook has a chapter “emergency war surgery”). If at all
possible, you should not attempt it, but have a hospital deal with it instead. Also consider
other methods, such as duct tape, for addressing superficial skin cuts. However suppose
someone cut off half your leg, you live remotely and hospitals are not operational. What can

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you do about it? I would say that it is highly unrealistic to sew severed arteries back
together. It might however be realistic to be able to sew tendons and muscles back
together. Similarly, deep tissue cuts could be addressed by sewing and of course skin can
be sewn together. Surgery requires a lot of knowledge and skill. It needs to be practiced
beforehand, on sponges, fruits or latex mockups. Silk will actually absorb after 1-2 years, so
it might still be a viable alternative, if vicryl/collagen is not available. In summary, surgery is
a questionable and very advanced skill to ever put to use.

optional medication
• antibiotic wound spray for cattle
• Hemostatic gauze
• large dog dewormer
• misoprostol (hold 2400mcg under tongue, then 800mcg after every 3 hours, up to 5
times, until fetus is aborted. Might be unsafe after 20 weeks pregnant. Extremely painful.
May need hospital assistance, esp. after 1st trimester. Triple as effective when combined
with 200mg mifepristone given 32 hours earlier. In this case only half of the misoprostol
doses are needed, i.e. 1200mcg, then 400mcg up to 5x.)
• ivermectin (works against various parasites, anti-viral in huge doses)
• potassium supplement (rehydration therapy, not contained in one-a-day vitamins)
• absorbable and regular sutures with needle and forceps (metric 3-8, USP #2-0, #0 - #2,
Chinese #10 - #15, vicryl/collagen & silk)
• nitrile gloves
• alpha-1 agonists for surgery (e.g. epinephrine injection, oxymetazoline nasal spray)
• tranexamic acid for cases of significant bleeding or trauma

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June 6, 2023

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