Superintelligence: The Idea That Eats Smart People

Re:Superintelligence: The Idea That Eats Smart People by nine_k on Thursday December 22, 2016 @09:37PM (#13242373)

I'm pretty sure that drone-tracking equipment is mounted all over NYC, and more is being deployed as we talk. I can also imagine that a rouge drone arriving from afar and large enough to carry a bomb will be shot down by police if it can't be identified. If it does not carry a bomb, police will apologize.

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Re:Superintelligence: The Idea That Eats Smart People by TeMPOraL on Thursday December 22, 2016 @09:53PM (#13242432)

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.

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Re:Superintelligence: The Idea That Eats Smart People by davedx on Friday December 23, 2016 @02:19AM (#13243400)

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

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Re:Superintelligence: The Idea That Eats Smart People by sasas on Friday December 23, 2016 @03:47AM (#13243736)

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

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Re:Superintelligence: The Idea That Eats Smart People by coldtea on Friday December 23, 2016 @04:19AM (#13243829)

Note that the same thing happened in France recently.

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Re:Superintelligence: The Idea That Eats Smart People by pjc50 on Friday December 23, 2016 @06:30AM (#13244239)

I can hardly believe that. Any drone large enough to carry a camera can carry a hand grenade. They don't have much range but can be launched locally and flown into a crowd.

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