Bostrom’s original paper defines “infohazard” so as to be inclusive of what you term “secrets”. I define “self-infohazard” to describe a specific case of an individual being harmed by themselves knowing something. Perhaps you would like to propose a different taxonomy that disagrees with Bostrom’s and/or my definitions?
EDIT: At MIRI, Nate Soares frequently used the term “infohazard” to refer to potentially dangerous technological secrets, in line with Bostrom’s usage. I have no reason to believe that anyone at the organization would personally be harmed on net by knowing such technological secrets. I’m not saying you have to agree with Nate here but I got the impression from this usage that this isn’t a case of Bostrom being idiosyncratic.
The idea of Transfiguring antimatter (assuming it works) is something that collectively harms all wizards if all wizards know it; it’s a group infohazard. The group infohazards seem worth distinguishing from the individual infohazards, but both seem much more worth distinguishing from secrets. Secrets exist among rational agents; individual and group infohazards only exist among causal decision theorists, humans, and other such weird creatures.
Bostrom’s original paper defines “infohazard” so as to be inclusive of what you term “secrets”. I define “self-infohazard” to describe a specific case of an individual being harmed by themselves knowing something. Perhaps you would like to propose a different taxonomy that disagrees with Bostrom’s and/or my definitions?
EDIT: At MIRI, Nate Soares frequently used the term “infohazard” to refer to potentially dangerous technological secrets, in line with Bostrom’s usage. I have no reason to believe that anyone at the organization would personally be harmed on net by knowing such technological secrets. I’m not saying you have to agree with Nate here but I got the impression from this usage that this isn’t a case of Bostrom being idiosyncratic.
The idea of Transfiguring antimatter (assuming it works) is something that collectively harms all wizards if all wizards know it; it’s a group infohazard. The group infohazards seem worth distinguishing from the individual infohazards, but both seem much more worth distinguishing from secrets. Secrets exist among rational agents; individual and group infohazards only exist among causal decision theorists, humans, and other such weird creatures.