How common is omnicidality? by a_mai

I 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 ver­si...