My point was that it doesn’t cause mental health problems, not that it can’t trigger them. Perhaps that’s a bad way to put it. If it does, there’s something beyond the information hazard going on, either an existing problem being triggered, or a multiple hazard. As I understand it, a basilisk is hazardous because you know the argument, without it needing to corrupt your reasoning abilities. Roko’s is alleged to be hazardous even to a rational agent. (I don’t think it is, and I think censoring it prevents an interesting debate about why. I don’t plan to say any more, given the existing censorship policies. If this is already too much, please let me know and I will edit accordingly.)
My point was that it doesn’t cause mental health problems, not that it can’t trigger them. Perhaps that’s a bad way to put it. If it does, there’s something beyond the information hazard going on, either an existing problem being triggered, or a multiple hazard. As I understand it, a basilisk is hazardous because you know the argument, without it needing to corrupt your reasoning abilities. Roko’s is alleged to be hazardous even to a rational agent. (I don’t think it is, and I think censoring it prevents an interesting debate about why. I don’t plan to say any more, given the existing censorship policies. If this is already too much, please let me know and I will edit accordingly.)