Speaking about suicide methods in a detailed fact-based way would be a classic example. There’s evidence that it increases the number of suicides that happen. There are media guides for journalists who argue against that practice.
people get exposed to it and some of them become obsessed to the point of watching it all the time and basing their clothing and friendships off it, or feeling like they are married to Rainbow Dash.
Oh. Thanks. I’ve never seen this show and don’t know much about it other than that it’s oddly popular among people on Less Wrong.
Although, based on what you’re saying, I guess it could be that people who are already insane are just especially attracted to My Little Pony for some reason.
Well, there’s the AI box experiment. Those transcripts could be kept hidden because private, personal things were spoken of, but then people who have done the experiment could tell us that that was the reason for secrecy. Eliazer seems to believe that humanity will be more likely to create and be harmed by a boxed AI if the transcripts are revealed.
This is kind of a hard question to answer without crossing the lines that should not be crossed, though. You can really only get an answer about ideas that shouldn’t be spoken of only under certain conditions, or ones that can be referred to in a more general sense (like the AI box).
What are some examples of ideas that are so dangerous, incendiary or sanity-destroying that they shouldn’t even be spoken of? Rot-13 if necessary...
Is it too meta to say “asking questions like this in a place where they’re likely to be answered correctly”?
http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/06/14/the-virtue-of-silence/
Speaking about suicide methods in a detailed fact-based way would be a classic example. There’s evidence that it increases the number of suicides that happen. There are media guides for journalists who argue against that practice.
Stupid question, is this even allowed on LW? I remember reading somewhere that stuff like this have been purged before.
Yes they have been and the results were hilarious.
My Little Pony apparently. Though the sanity destruction seems to be for a very specific subset of the populace.
Can you explain what you mean by this?
people get exposed to it and some of them become obsessed to the point of watching it all the time and basing their clothing and friendships off it, or feeling like they are married to Rainbow Dash.
That seems to be a general pattern in any subculture, I don’t think the MLP fandom is unusual in its distribution of strangeness for its size
Oh. Thanks. I’ve never seen this show and don’t know much about it other than that it’s oddly popular among people on Less Wrong.
Although, based on what you’re saying, I guess it could be that people who are already insane are just especially attracted to My Little Pony for some reason.
The idea that some ideas are far too dangerous to be spoken about is a pretty dangerous one
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Well, there’s the AI box experiment. Those transcripts could be kept hidden because private, personal things were spoken of, but then people who have done the experiment could tell us that that was the reason for secrecy. Eliazer seems to believe that humanity will be more likely to create and be harmed by a boxed AI if the transcripts are revealed.
This is kind of a hard question to answer without crossing the lines that should not be crossed, though. You can really only get an answer about ideas that shouldn’t be spoken of only under certain conditions, or ones that can be referred to in a more general sense (like the AI box).
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