Everything you shouldn't know about the world
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This video explores Nick Bostrom's essay on infohazards, categorizing risks associated with information such as psychological, norm, and adversarial hazards, and concludes that while knowledge is generally valued, ignorance is sometimes a necessary safeguard against danger.
From the video
Answers: What are infohazards and how can information be dangerous?
- Infohazards
- Risks of information
- Nick Bostrom's typology of infohazards
- Psychological hazards
- Norm and social hazards
- Adversarial and enemy hazards
What it concludes
- An infohazard is a risk that arises from the dissemination or potential dissemination of true information that may cause harm.
- Infohazards are distinct from misinformation and disinformation because they are objectively true yet dangerous to know.
- Attempts to conceal information often backfire and draw more attention to it.
- Ignorance is sometimes a necessary safeguard against dangers like manipulation, bias, or terror.
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