More info on the content or severity of the neuropsychological and evocation infohazards would be welcome. (The WWI warning is helpful; I didn’t see that the first time.)
Examples of specific evocation hazards:
Images of gore
Graphic descriptions of violence
Flashing lights / epilepsy trigger
Examples of specific neuropsychological hazards:
Glowing descriptions of bad role models
Suicide baiting
I know which of these hazards I’m especially susceptible to and which I’m not.
I appreciate that Hivewired thought to put these warnings in. But I’m kind of astounded that enough readers plowed through the warnings and read the post (with the expectation that they would be harmed thereby?) to cause it to be promoted.
Ah, I think I have realized “Nisan has not currently read the post, because of vague warnings that he wasn’t sure of the severity of, and is asking for more specifics so he can decide whether to read the post”, as opposed to (what I originally thought you were asking), “Nisan read the post and wished he had had better warnings.”
I personally didn’t actually think the post required a warning and didn’t notice them when I first read it. I’m not 100% sure what Hivewired intended by the either of the warnings, but I think “the sort of stuff that might come up if you were talking about World War I” was the main thing that seemed significant to me.
Can you give more informative content warnings so that your readers can make an informed decision about whether to read the post?
What sort of warning do you want? It already provides more content warnings than most LW posts.
More info on the content or severity of the neuropsychological and evocation infohazards would be welcome. (The WWI warning is helpful; I didn’t see that the first time.)
Examples of specific evocation hazards:
Images of gore
Graphic descriptions of violence
Flashing lights / epilepsy trigger
Examples of specific neuropsychological hazards:
Glowing descriptions of bad role models
Suicide baiting
I know which of these hazards I’m especially susceptible to and which I’m not.
I appreciate that Hivewired thought to put these warnings in. But I’m kind of astounded that enough readers plowed through the warnings and read the post (with the expectation that they would be harmed thereby?) to cause it to be promoted.
Ah, I think I have realized “Nisan has not currently read the post, because of vague warnings that he wasn’t sure of the severity of, and is asking for more specifics so he can decide whether to read the post”, as opposed to (what I originally thought you were asking), “Nisan read the post and wished he had had better warnings.”
I personally didn’t actually think the post required a warning and didn’t notice them when I first read it. I’m not 100% sure what Hivewired intended by the either of the warnings, but I think “the sort of stuff that might come up if you were talking about World War I” was the main thing that seemed significant to me.
Ah, thank you! I have now read the post, and I didn’t find it hazardous either.
In this particular case, was there a concrete warning you wish you had received that you didn’t?