Maybe the crazy survivalists like the idea, too. Hypothesis: Some reasonable portion of the people who build shelters aren’t buying nuclear-war insurance; they’re buying the fantasy of being the romantic postapocalyptic survivor. Like buying the fantasy of being rich via lottery tickets, or the fantasy of being fit and pretty via exercise machines.
What about the destruction of civilization is romantic? That’s one of the worst possible outcomes...
Just because people invest in their health (exercise machines and gyms), [hygiene], health insurance, life insurance (cryonics), security, etc, doesn’t mean they are crazy. A good bit of LW literature argues that some paranoia can be healthy, that we tend to be overconfident and over optimistic, etc.
Maybe the crazy survivalists like the idea, too. Hypothesis: Some reasonable portion of the people who build shelters aren’t buying nuclear-war insurance; they’re buying the fantasy of being the romantic postapocalyptic survivor. Like buying the fantasy of being rich via lottery tickets, or the fantasy of being fit and pretty via exercise machines.
What about the destruction of civilization is romantic? That’s one of the worst possible outcomes...
Just because people invest in their health (exercise machines and gyms), [hygiene], health insurance, life insurance (cryonics), security, etc, doesn’t mean they are crazy. A good bit of LW literature argues that some paranoia can be healthy, that we tend to be overconfident and over optimistic, etc.