Perplexed comments on If you don't know the name of the game, just tell me what I mean to you - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Perplexed 28 October 2010 01:11:42AM *  2 points [-]

... sometimes what you know hurts you.

Actually, this is misstated. Misstated as badly as the equivalent claim that in some games it helps to be irrational.

What helps is not being irrational, the thing that helps is being thought irrational (even if the only way to be thought irrational is to actually be irrational).

And in this case, similarly, it is not what you know that hurts you, it is what the other guy knows.

Comment author: timtyler 29 October 2010 05:06:33PM *  0 points [-]

Hmm. Did you see:

"Information Hazards: A Typology of Potential Harms from Knowledge"

...?