I like (a slight variant of) this game as a simple example of an infohazard.
Suppose you’re playing as player A, and the card is initially dealt face down to you. Before you decide whether to reveal your card to player B or not, you also have to decide whether to look at it yourself. Do you look at your own card?
If you’re an ideal UDT agent, whether you look or not (and which card you see) shouldn’t matter. If you’re the kind of person who would always reveal a low card once you saw it, knowing your own card has an expected value of −0.25. Most humans are probably somewhere in between these two points. So perhaps a more interesting question is: how much would you personally pay to avoid being told what your card is?
Perhaps I do not understand the meaning of infohazard, but in this scenario, it seems like what you are trying to avoid is not information, but rather player B knowing you have information. I think this can be solved if you take one of the “Omegas” who can predict you, and then the information itself may be seen as harmful.
I like (a slight variant of) this game as a simple example of an infohazard.
Suppose you’re playing as player A, and the card is initially dealt face down to you. Before you decide whether to reveal your card to player B or not, you also have to decide whether to look at it yourself. Do you look at your own card?
If you’re an ideal UDT agent, whether you look or not (and which card you see) shouldn’t matter. If you’re the kind of person who would always reveal a low card once you saw it, knowing your own card has an expected value of −0.25. Most humans are probably somewhere in between these two points. So perhaps a more interesting question is: how much would you personally pay to avoid being told what your card is?
Perhaps I do not understand the meaning of infohazard, but in this scenario, it seems like what you are trying to avoid is not information, but rather player B knowing you have information. I think this can be solved if you take one of the “Omegas” who can predict you, and then the information itself may be seen as harmful.