maintain a steady infohazard diet like those animals that eat poisonous plants, so that your mind will poison those that try to eat it
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New blog post: "Infohazard" is a predominantly conflict-theoretic concept
unstableontology.com/2021/12/02/inf
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"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
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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)
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Personally I lean toward the strict langford's basilisk or rowhammer style definition of the concept.
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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.
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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
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the 2x2 could be:
blessing / straight up infohazard, langford basilisk, anxiety fuel, etc
curse / memetic hazard (I lose less than others)
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