Testing a Trash Can Faraday Cage

With how quickly AI is going basically all futures are weird in some ways. I've been thinking about how this affects me personally, and "try as hard as possible to keep AI from getting us all killed" is pretty high on the list. For me this mostly looks like donations and pandemic deterrence , but I also put some time into thinking about disasters . There are ways AI might go very well, or very poorly, and then there's the "messy middle" where we muddle through and things might fall apart some in the meantime. The big things here are making sure you have enough water and food for a while, along with critical medications and the standard "prepping" recommendations. But lately I've been thinking about what you might do for other risks, such as engineered pandemics , mirror bacteria , or fire suppression outages . And today, EMP s. An EMP is an electromagnetic pulse, and a strong one could destroy a lot of electronics. The most likely way we get one in the near future is a high-altitude nuclear detonation. This could be part of a nuclear war, or fighting around an AI takeover attempt. It's not totally known what effect an EMP would have on stuff. The initial pulse ("E1") is very short