Comments by "Daniel Bradford" (@Falconlibrary) on "How nuclear apocalypse survivors will behave | Annie Jacobsen and Lex Fridman" video.

Psychopaths will inherit the Earth.
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The Road by McCarthy and a British film called "Threads" which is on Youtube. I think The Road is the most realistic.
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@mpetrison3799 You haven't read "The Road". The survivors--1% of the population--scavenged canned goods for many years before resorting to cannibalism. The Man and the Boy in the story aren't cannibals, they're scavengers. Everyone in that novel/film is living on starvation rations.
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@williamharris7849 That's a good rule!
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@mormacil It's called the Zeroth Law. I noticed that it preceded the big three. I never believed we would limit robots; it's too much to expect humans not to build a massive army of untiring robot warriors. History has shown that every weapon thought too horrible to be used has been used. The Terminator films are more realistic in this regard.
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@williamharris7849 You missed his point, which is that we're not tapping that oil now so it can be used for the apocalypse survivors.
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@mormacil Asimov later added a fourth law, which actually precedes the others: "A robot may not injure humanity or, through inaction, allow humanity to come to harm." Many have suggested that the word "humanity" be removed and substituted with "any human being".
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They found the cache when the Boy was ten, and he was born at the start of the war. If there's only 1% or less of humanity left, it'd take some time to eat through canned goods in grocery stores, warehouses, and private homes. But I can see you're a man who's never wrong, so I'll end it here. Let's pray none of us ever have to find out how this REALLY works. If there's a nuclear war, I hope I'm killed in the first exchange.
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@ste2442 It is, but The Road is as bad as it gets without just wiping us all out within a few weeks. I know there's world leaders and billionaires who have long-term underground shelters, but what if 100 years underground isn't enough? And who wants to live the rest of their life in a shelter? Not me.
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@zM0NsT3Rz All true, but we've no way of knowing what the disruption will be to Earth's environment from a massive nuclear exchange. And I'm guessing the US and Russia have some new types of nukes we don't know about.
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