Prediction: Dude will have a book out about how to survive it in the next 12. Or he's aiming to receive a bonus from someone he knows who's already writing one.

Attempt to start a commune in the forest?

Their plan? Bring it about so that Rocko's Modern Basilisk can torture the unbelievers (as if hearing their inchoate speculation about what the-computer-that-can't-even-do-math-consistently will one day be able to do isn't already torment enough).

These dumbasses have reinvented premillennial dispensationalism.

For the rest of us, I guess Butlerian Jihad is always an option.