
58: Recipes for Future Plagues | Kevin Esvelt
The After On Podcast
The Omnicidal Instinct Is Out There
The omnicital factor is something the i think people very frequently miss, because it's easy rule out a majority of bad guys who normally dominate international headlines. We can safely say that putten she indeed north korea are wildly unlikely to inflict a pandemic on the world. And if we're in the mind set that it takes a major state actor do such a thing, there is a bit of mutual assured destruction built into that. There could be other people who don't realize quite how deadly the thing they're doing is and might have some sort of bone headed, cunning plan. It sounds maronic and absurd, but there'se seven billion people in the world, and moronic
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