Your OP doesn’t provide nearly enough information for anyone to make accurate judgments or give useful advice. You could have added more detail that concealed the exact secret while revealing circumstantial information about it, e.g. perhaps it is a technological design that could bring X benefit but you expect corporate competition over enhancing the technology to cause Y harm. Or you could have offered a fictional moral dilemma similar to your own to ask people to make judgments about it. As it stands it doesn’t seem possible to offer better advice than “think about it more, perhaps discuss with some people you trust, don’t publish/market it in the meantime”.
Thank you for the reply, I think I said somewhere in the comments that in terms of harm, I’d judge the probable harm of release to be similar to ‘a marketing technique that is effective at turning children into smokers, but not much else’ (paraphrasing).
I don’t think the community here is actually interested in controlling infohazards, and is much more interested in digesting them a la the twitter posts you linked.
Your OP doesn’t provide nearly enough information for anyone to make accurate judgments or give useful advice. You could have added more detail that concealed the exact secret while revealing circumstantial information about it, e.g. perhaps it is a technological design that could bring X benefit but you expect corporate competition over enhancing the technology to cause Y harm. Or you could have offered a fictional moral dilemma similar to your own to ask people to make judgments about it. As it stands it doesn’t seem possible to offer better advice than “think about it more, perhaps discuss with some people you trust, don’t publish/market it in the meantime”.
Thank you for the reply, I think I said somewhere in the comments that in terms of harm, I’d judge the probable harm of release to be similar to ‘a marketing technique that is effective at turning children into smokers, but not much else’ (paraphrasing).
I don’t think the community here is actually interested in controlling infohazards, and is much more interested in digesting them a la the twitter posts you linked.