Gabe Bankman-Fried, the younger brother of FTX's founder, tried to buy the island nation of Nauru to build a shelter to create a superhuman species in a lab.
It will do a pretty good job of it if it’s an island in the central Pacific Ocean, 300km away from its closest neighbouring country.
It’s like the joke about outrunning a bear, they just need to run faster than the rest of us. There are only 12k people on Nauru to outlast, and a few years of supplies don’t take up very much space either.
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People forget that the real human superpower is just other humans.
That’s why they were trying to buy an island.
Bunkers have air vents, right?
It will do a pretty good job of it if it’s an island in the central Pacific Ocean, 300km away from its closest neighbouring country.
It’s like the joke about outrunning a bear, they just need to run faster than the rest of us. There are only 12k people on Nauru to outlast, and a few years of supplies don’t take up very much space either.