Rob Miles also makes the point that if you expect people to accurately model the incoming doom, you should have a low p(doom). At the very least, worlds in which humanity is switched-on enough (and the AI takeover is slow enough) for both markets to crash and the world to have enough social order for your bet to come through are much more likely to survive.
If enough people are selling assets to buy cocaine for the market to crash, either the AI takeover is remarkably slow indeed (comparable to a normal human-human war) or public opinion is so doomy pre-takeover that there would be enough political will to “assertively” shut down the datacenters.
Rob Miles also makes the point that if you expect people to accurately model the incoming doom, you should have a low p(doom). At the very least, worlds in which humanity is switched-on enough (and the AI takeover is slow enough) for both markets to crash and the world to have enough social order for your bet to come through are much more likely to survive. If enough people are selling assets to buy cocaine for the market to crash, either the AI takeover is remarkably slow indeed (comparable to a normal human-human war) or public opinion is so doomy pre-takeover that there would be enough political will to “assertively” shut down the datacenters.