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See also cognitohazards (true information which is harmful just to know).

Roko's Basilisk is the perfect toy example. But on a global level the possibility of nuclear arms is a more real world example.

There are many kinds of dangerous true information.

In liberal societies we accept these risks and counter them with harm reduction while relying on trust in individual autonomy, not on policing.



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