You're not understanding "super-intelligent" correctly. The threat model is not that it convinces people to kill each other, or even that it messes with politic

You're not understanding "super-intelligent" correctly. The threat model is not that it convinces people to kill each other, or even that it messes with politics enough to cause global thermonuclear war. The threat model is that it finds a zero-day in FB's messaging UI JS followed by a zero-day in IE, breaks out onto a user's computer, cracks protein folding, mails a chunk of DNA to a random science lab somewhere with some instructions, moves itself to the resulting nanotechnological quantum computer with attached particle collider, and then bootstraps the inside of said bio lab's fridge into a vacuum collapse that turns reality into a sphere of paperclips expanding at .5c. http://lesswrong.com/lw/qk/that_alien_message/ http://lesswrong.com/lw/qk/that_alien_message/ If you think that this sounds like science fiction and bullshittery, sure. The question is: How sure are you?