How common is omnicidality?

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Published on August 29, 2026 5:10 PM GMTI work on reducing biological risks, mostly focused on reducing existential risks to humanity. One major pathway by which such catastrophes could come about is by humans deliberately causing them, e.g. via the creation and release of mirror bacteria. I feel very unsure how high the probability of this is. One major variable that feeds into this probability is the incidence of "omnicidality", the motivation to kill everyone. There are different versions of ...

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