What are the best examples of significant harm caused by "infohazards"? (don't say Roko)
I tend to internally roll my eyes when I hear this concern, often from EA-land, and I'd like to inoculate myself against that if appropriate.
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Many quite good examples in the replies, on both a personal scale (oppt'y costs, shallow pond, non-self) and a population scale (bioweapons, Szilard and vicinity, etc). Thank you, Twitter! I feel less eye-roll-y about this topic now.
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mad that someone "knowing about opportunity costs" would be considered an infohazard
"knowing about tigers" might make someone never leave their house
okay, everything is an infohazard