"Information hazard" is just a term for "things you or others learn and then are worse off because of". Examples of information hazards: - Instructions on how

"Information hazard" is just a term for "things you or others learn and then are worse off because of". Examples of information hazards: - Instructions on how to make a gigaton bomb with processes and materials anyone can acquire and assemble privately. - A reachable-by-a-country mechanism for blowing up the sun. - An image designed to temporarily or permanently mess with your vision. Sharing [1] on reddit as a "cool optical illusion" would be mean. - Probably whatever a computer spits out if you give it a scan of your brain and set it on the task of finding a paragraph/image/movie/whatever that maximizes dopamine production. - Some people would consider a devastating argument against free will to be an information hazard, predicting that people would then do whatever they wanted because they "couldn't be blamed". - If you're a hardcore atheist: religions. If you're a hardcore theist who thinks the devil is out to trick you: convincing arguments against belief. 1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCollough_effect http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCollough_effect