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title: "What each reader can do"
description: "The closing chapter's guidance by role for helping prevent extinction."
canonical: https://tomsharman.com/bookshelf/if-anyone-builds-it-everyone-dies/what-each-reader-can-do/
updated: 2026-11-03
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# What each reader can do

> The closing chapter's guidance by role for helping prevent extinction.

Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares's framework, from If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies, pp. 139 to 195.

Framework 5 of 5 from [If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies](https://tomsharman.com/bookshelf/if-anyone-builds-it-everyone-dies/index.md) by Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares. Category: Sales and negotiation.

## The steps

1. **Governments.** Signal willingness to an international treaty so no country is disadvantaged by stopping.
2. **Politicians.** At least require GPU clusters to be concentrated so the brakes can be applied later.
3. **Journalists.** Cover the subject with gravity and mention outside scientists' warnings.
4. **Citizens.** Write to representatives, vote in primaries, join large lawful protests and talk about it, then live life well.

## Where it comes from

From chapter: PART III: FACING THE CHALLENGE, pp. 139–195

## The animation

24 seconds, 4:5, no sound.

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