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Comment author: fubarobfusco 01 March 2013 11:38:40PM 2 points [-]

Agreed — Bostrom's classification "psychological reaction hazard" seems like it should include "trigger" as a subset — both the original sense of "PTSD trigger" and the more general sense that seems popular today, which might be expanded as "information that will remind you of something that it hurts to be reminded of."