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> are you really that confident that misinformation, hate speech and historical revisionism I don't think the person you responded to brought those up or attem
by deafpolygon 2y ago
> are you really that confident that misinformation, hate speech and historical revisionism
I don't think the person you responded to brought those up or attempted to say that. Both could be true. I don't know anything about adversarial-to-human information, but I thought we were better than this (Whataboutism) at HN.
- klibertp 2y ago> I don't know anything about adversarial-to-human information I also don't know this particular term, but my it reminds me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roko%27s_basilisk https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roko%27s_basilisk and the related https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_hazard https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_hazard - though the latter deals with "true" information, if I understand correctly, so the fan-fiction site wouldn't fit, I think?
- Jerrrrrrry 2y agoDoes information have to be true to be harmful? Also thanks for the links, I forgot lurkers may lack context.
- Jerrrrrrry 2y ago>but I thought we were better than this (Whataboutism) at HN. Whataboutism is Whataboutism.