Most so called "infohazards" are just knowledge about dangerous things, but nothing maddening or reality-bending or shaping in themselves. True infohazards is the kind that leaves you a gibbering madman raving at the moon, true to Lovecrafts endings in his writings.
>>25182868The best you can get with IRL infohazards are falsehoods or misleading truths. We're structured in such a way that we can smooth over any maddening information with time and further input.
>>25182868yeah but actual infohazards like that don't really exist. There are things like roko's basilisk and quantum immortality, but they are just completely nonsensical thought experiments that have no basis in reality.
>>25182868To low IQ normies most news items are an info hazard. how many people have you guys seen go crazy over the Epstein files? or Palestine? random people just setting themselves on fire as if that's gonna help anything. democracy is too much cognitive burden for most people.
The only thing that I think would be a genuine infohazard would be something you had to keep secret but ate you away inside.
>>25182868A lot of this sort of thing is unintentionally self-defeating. To accept a radically new type of truth you have to first accept that the old type is false. Once you've convinced yourself that truth, even that which is established or confirmed by your own experiences, can be doubted, you just start doing it to everything, including the new truth you were attempting to learn. You become either The Man That Doubts Everything or The Man That Believes Everything. /x/ is full of them.
>>25182868I'm writing a story about mind reading that works the opposite way. There aren't really any ideas that are hazardous in themselves, but accessing someone else's thoughts directly is hazardous because of how the metaphysics of the setting operate. Someone can read the mind of another person and only "hear" thoughts about grocery lists and mundane childhood memories and still end up injured or crippled if the conditions align in the wrong way.
>>25182868There are no ideas that can just make you go insane. Your brain literally cannot process ideas that could do that. And if you had a better brain, those ideas wouldn't drive you insane.Try to make a dog insane by whispering unfathomable eldritch secrets in its ear. It's not going to give a shit.
>>25184564What about that woman who left an elite party talking about how they were sacrificing and eating people? Info hazard seems like it is real, but it’s something you encounter not read.
