Prepping is simply preparing for possibilities. If we don't foom first, maybe we get economically disruptive AI ... and yeah, having some options seems like a wise prep, if you can swing it. Wisdom requires balance, though, so what's too much? What's too little? You decide.
I think the best "prepping" in terms of surviving the next 5 years, is working toward slowing AGI down / a global moratorium on ASI; and/or supporting others doing the same (e.g. PauseAI, Stop AI) https://x.com/gcolbourn/status/1709260102203486215?s=19…
There is nowhere to run or hide from rogue superintelligent AI. Not a nuclear bunker, a secure compound in NZ, Antarctica, the bottom of the ocean, or Mars. Nowhere.
AI Notkilleveryoneist: AGI/ASI dev must be stopped. PauseAI.
Founder, Pause House; CEEALAR (EA Hotel). Ex-EA (left over EA's anti-Pause, pro-Anthropic stance).