Self-censorship to protect our own mental health? Stupid.
My gloss on it is that this is at best a minor part, though it figures in.
The topic is an idea that has horrific implications that are supposedly made more likely the more one thinks about it. Thinking about it in order to figure out what it may be is a bad idea because you may come up with something else. And if the horrific is horrific enough, even a small rise in the probability of it happening would be very bad in expectation.
More explaining why many won't think it dangerous at all. This doesn't directly point anything out, but any details do narrow the search-space: V fnl fhccbfrqyl orpnhfr lbh unir gb ohl va gb fbzr qrpvqrqyl aba-znvafgernz vqrnf gung ner pbzzba qbtzn urer.
I personally don't buy this, and think the censorship is an overblown reaction. Accepting it is definitely not crazy, however, especially given the stakes, and I'm willing to self-censor to some degree, even though I hate the heavy-handed response.
My gloss on it is that this is at best a minor part, though it figures in.
I think that, even if this is a minor part of the reasoning for those who (unlike me) believe in the danger, it could easily be the best, most consensus* basis for an explicit deletion policy. I'd support such a policy, and definitely think a secret policy is stupid for several reasons.
*no consensus here will be perfect.
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