infohazard
English
Etymology
Blend of information + hazard or info + hazard.
Noun
infohazard (plural infohazards)
- (chiefly science fiction) A piece of information which is directly harmful to one who knows it.
- 2019 June 13, Tom Chivers, The AI Does Not Hate You, Orion Publishing Group, →ISBN:
- A basilisk, in this context, is information that can hurt you simply because you are aware of it. Yudkowsky uses the term 'infohazard'.
- 2019 August 28, Fletcher Wortmann, “Infohazard Warning: How Internal Memes Infect Your Brain”, in Triggered, Psychology Today, retrieved 2020-08-31:
- If a meme is any idea that gets in your head, then an "infohazard" is a meme that's actively harmful to its host.
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- An information hazard; a piece of information which can be used to cause harm by one who knows it.
Synonyms
- memetic hazard
Coordinate terms
- cognitohazard