shminux comments on Open Thread, March 1-15, 2013 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: shminux 01 March 2013 08:21:04PM 7 points [-]

Why stop there? Employment hazard (NSFW), Copyright hazard (link to torrent, sharing site or a paper copied from behind a paywall), Relationship hazard (picture of a gorgeous guy/girl), dieting hazard (discussion of what goes well with bacon)...

Comment author: fubarobfusco 01 March 2013 11:35:05PM *  2 points [-]

Well, the ones I mentioned are drawn from Bostrom's paper (although they aren't all of his categories). Eliezer seemed to be specifically discouraging a class of psychological reaction hazards while using the more general term "information hazard" to do it; I thought to inquire into what folks thought of other classes of information hazard.