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infohazard

noun
/ˈɪnfəʊˌhæzəd/UK/ˈɪnfoʊˌhæzɚd/US

Etymology

Blend of information + hazard or info + hazard. Analogous to biohazard and possibly modeled after it.

  1. derived from زهر
  2. derived from hasart
  3. inherited from hasard
  4. compounded as infohazard — “information + hazard”

Definitions

  1. A piece of information which is directly harmful to one who knows it.

    • A basilisk, in this context, is information that can hurt you simply because you are aware of it. Yudkowsky uses the term 'infohazard'.
    • If a meme is any idea that gets in your head, then an "infohazard" is a meme that's actively harmful to its host.

  2. An information hazard

    An information hazard; a piece of information which can be used to cause harm by one who knows it.

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Derived

infohazardous

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for infohazard. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA