You’re basically just failing at modeling rational agents with utility functions different from yours, I’m sorry to say. If the Puritans value pleasure, they can pursue it even after learning the true facts of the matter. If they don’t value pleasure, but you do, you’re unhappy they learned the secret because now they’ll do things you don’t want, but they do want to do those things under their own utility functions.
Oh I understand, I’m trying to apply an external measure of utility, but it doesn’t necessarily match up to an internal measure, so this example fails. Thank you!
Edit: you’ve written before about your experiences growing up in an insular religious environment. Can you in retrospect identify any pieces of true widely known information that would qualify as an infohazard to that group using your definition? Obviously I wouldn’t ask you to actually state the true fact or the reason it’s an infohazard.
You’re basically just failing at modeling rational agents with utility functions different from yours, I’m sorry to say. If the Puritans value pleasure, they can pursue it even after learning the true facts of the matter. If they don’t value pleasure, but you do, you’re unhappy they learned the secret because now they’ll do things you don’t want, but they do want to do those things under their own utility functions.
Oh I understand, I’m trying to apply an external measure of utility, but it doesn’t necessarily match up to an internal measure, so this example fails. Thank you!
Edit: you’ve written before about your experiences growing up in an insular religious environment. Can you in retrospect identify any pieces of true widely known information that would qualify as an infohazard to that group using your definition? Obviously I wouldn’t ask you to actually state the true fact or the reason it’s an infohazard.