I assume that this is primarily directed at me for this comment, but if so, I strongly disagree.
Security by obscurity does not in fact work well. I do not think it is realistic to hope that none of the ten generals look at the incentives they’ve been given and notice that their reward for nuking is 3x their penalty for being nuked. I do think it’s realistic to make sure it is common knowledge that the generals’ incentives are drastically misaligned with the citizens’ incentives, and to try to do something about that.
(Honestly I think that I disagree with almost all uses of the word ‘infohazard’ on LW. I enjoy SCP stories as much as the next LW-er, but I think that the real-world prevalence of infohazards is orders of magnitude lower).
No. I noticed ~2 more subtle infohazards and I was wishing for nobody to post them and I realized I can decrease that probability by making an infohazard warning.
I ask that you refrain from being the reason that security-by-obscurity fails, if you notice subtle infohazards.
I assume that this is primarily directed at me for this comment, but if so, I strongly disagree.
Security by obscurity does not in fact work well. I do not think it is realistic to hope that none of the ten generals look at the incentives they’ve been given and notice that their reward for nuking is 3x their penalty for being nuked. I do think it’s realistic to make sure it is common knowledge that the generals’ incentives are drastically misaligned with the citizens’ incentives, and to try to do something about that.
(Honestly I think that I disagree with almost all uses of the word ‘infohazard’ on LW. I enjoy SCP stories as much as the next LW-er, but I think that the real-world prevalence of infohazards is orders of magnitude lower).
No. I noticed ~2 more subtle infohazards and I was wishing for nobody to post them and I realized I can decrease that probability by making an infohazard warning.
I ask that you refrain from being the reason that security-by-obscurity fails, if you notice subtle infohazards.