On: Superintelligence: The Idea That Eats Smart People

[TeMPOraL]

I'm not buying that.

In fact, the only reason such drone attacks don't happen, or why people hadn't been casually blowing each other up for the past five decades with explosives attached to RC cars / planes is that in general, people are nice to each other. There's plenty of tools out there for dedicated people to wreck havoc in populated areas. Such people simply are very, very rare.

[davedx → TeMPOraL]

Also as recent news from Berlin shows, you don't even need a drone, a regular old van will do

[sasas → davedx]

Further backing up the parent commenter's statement that people are generally nice to each other.

[coldtea → davedx]

Note that the same thing happened in France recently.