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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I think I'm thinking of something from GEB “The paraphrase of Gödel's Theorem says that for any record player, there are records which it cannot play because they will cause its indirect self-destruction.”
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