[ExI] Gunfight at the OK Convention

[Anders Sandberg]

On 2016-03-28 16:09, Adrian Tymes wrote:
>
> I'm trying to think through how this would actually work.  Even at 
> their angriest, they would remember the guns are deadly force and so 
> wouldn't fire on anyone they don't think is about to fire on them, right?
>

Angry rational people would behave like that. But add even a small mix 
of irrational people and disaster will follow. It is not hard to find 
evidence in the news of people (even people professionally trained) 
initiating deadly force when a rational person would recognize that 
there is no realistic risk.

I like Steven Weinberg's challenge to the Texas law by banning them from 
his classroom:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/steven-weinberg-texas-guns_us_56a6b23ce4b0b87beec5dba0
Being a professor with an impopular view is of course problematic, since 
you are more easily outgunned by your class.

-- 
Anders Sandberg
Future of Humanity Institute
Oxford Martin School
Oxford University

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