All “infohazards” I’ve seen seem to just be more and more complicated versions of “Here’s a Löbian proof that you’re now manually breathing”. A sufficiently well-designed mind would recognize these sorts of things before allowing them to fully unfold.
The classical infohazard is “here is a way to build a nuke using nothing but the parts of a microwave”. I think you are thinking of a much narrower class of infohazards than that word is intended to refer to.
I’d categorize that as an exfohazard rather than an infohazard.
Info on how to build a nuke using nothing but parts of a microwave doesn’t harm the bearer, except possibly by way of some other cognitive flaw/vulnerability (e.g. difficulty keeping secrets)
Maybe “cognitohazard” is a closer word to the thing I’m trying to point towards. Though, I would be interested in learning about pure infohazards that aren’t cognitohazards.
(If you know of one and want to share it with me, it may be prudent to dm rather than comment here)
All “infohazards” I’ve seen seem to just be more and more complicated versions of “Here’s a Löbian proof that you’re now manually breathing”. A sufficiently well-designed mind would recognize these sorts of things before allowing them to fully unfold.
The classical infohazard is “here is a way to build a nuke using nothing but the parts of a microwave”. I think you are thinking of a much narrower class of infohazards than that word is intended to refer to.
I’d categorize that as an exfohazard rather than an infohazard.
Info on how to build a nuke using nothing but parts of a microwave doesn’t harm the bearer, except possibly by way of some other cognitive flaw/vulnerability (e.g. difficulty keeping secrets)
Maybe “cognitohazard” is a closer word to the thing I’m trying to point towards. Though, I would be interested in learning about pure infohazards that aren’t cognitohazards.
(If you know of one and want to share it with me, it may be prudent to dm rather than comment here)
Breathing mindfulness meditation seems to fix that one. We might look for structurally similar fixes for other such “infohazards”.
I’ve been working on applying the anti-infohazard to the “infohazards” I know.