New blog post: "Infohazard" is a predominantly conflict-theoretic concept
https://unstableontology.com/2021/12/02/infohazard-is-a-predominantly-conflict-theoretic-concept/…
"Therefore, “infohazard” being an important concept is Bayesian evidence for misalignment of interests/optimizations, which would be better-modeled by conflict theory than mistake theory." isn't this sort of circular reasoning
idk I kind of bounced off the thing but I work in a different frame - magic-theoretically, an infohazard (defined as true-but-harmful-to-know) is kind of the opposite of magic's belief-as-a-tool (not necessarily true, but useful to believe)
hmm, not rowhammer, I'm thinking of another virus (possibly only ever theoretical?) that causes a computer to physically shake apart by accessing memory locations in the right sequence.
and the concept of cooperate/defect is orthogonal to spellwork, curses and blessings both exist, so at least from that vantage it should also be orthogonal to infohazards