Thread 24595630

Infohazard (information hazard/cognitohazard) literature: books that fuck you up just by reading them. Post stories, authors, recommendations, warnings.

>>24595630 (OP)
info hazards are real but they are only information that is strictly detrimental to the achievement of your goals. this usually being done by increasing belief in futility, increasing fear/anxiety, or "taking up space" by a connection to something that you dont fully understand that takes up your mind, aka "roadblock" that should be dealt with before regular goals can be resumed.
TMP is not one of those for me.

Concept of individual perception. Concept of syntax and semantic. Concept of "accessing xnxx dot com during work bathroom break" (daily). All kill

>https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Roko%27s_basilisk/Original_post
don't read - you've been warned

>>24595642
tsm. and most common infohazard is almost everything you see in the internet

>>24595654
dogshit meme. Even if it was believable somehow, development of intelligence is a field of literally our own architecture, to be solved by good design principles. But ridiculously retarded and i wish i would never see this waste of text on /lit/ again, but maybe you are meming.

>>24595642
the only books worth reading are the ones that you can't fully understand I think. besides, how would you differentiate between "regular goals" and these warped goals, considering that all of our desire is constructed by the external world? you just pick the ones you grew up with?

The Lemurian Time War gave me trouble sleeping for a while.

>>24595654
Deluded autistics genuinely manage to confound themselves into believing this, then spend the remaining five years of their life talking about it.

The Dutroux case instantaneously turned me into a jaded fuck. After that Epstein was like water. We will live to see all paranoids proved right.

>>24595701
strictly detrimental roadblocks are those that have no solution. In my mind i cannot easily categorize something as such because of course how do we know the nature of what we dont understand and if we dont how could we now if its useful for achieving our ideals/desires.
as for picking desires, I don't know. I know what I find beautiful, what i love, and I know i didn't choose to be born and i will stand with myself even if the whole world stands against me. What you choose to be important to you, i don't know. I think if anyone knew how humans should value anything with unarguable certainty, we wouldn't be discussing what you should learn and how things might be for so long.

>>24595711
https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/security/a42575068/scientists-use-wifi-to-see-through-walls/
Schizos are always right.

>>24595714
That sounds like a nice way to look at it. Personally I kind of like all the unending philosophical discussions, science problems and such, all it means to me is that something in society remains alive. I think every book I love has probably shifted my perception of the world, and therefore some of my goals, at least a bit.

>>24595732
the feeling of discovery, the enlargening of my world which feels so small, is part of why creation and creativity is something i will try to foster if i become god. However, there are most certainly things to be eliminated if not in the proper context.

>>24595630 (OP)
Mainlander, Schopenhauer, that sort of shit
Terror management theory

>>24595654
I've just thought of an even more powerful AI, call it Anon's Weasel, that will reward anybody with infinite pleasure for building it and will use its power to infinitely punish anybody who tries to build the Basilisk. Crisis averted, now we can all stop worrying about this stupid forum post.

>>24595630 (OP)
It was Phenomenology for me at first. I read Maurice-Merleau Ponty on audio book once and got visited by this guy when I drifted off to sleep

>According to some demonologists of the 16th century, August is the month during which this demon's attacks against man are stronger. According to Sebastien Michaelis, he is a demon of the First Hierarchy, who seduces by means of laziness, self-doubt, and rationalized philosophies. His adversary is St. Bartholomew, who can protect against him for he has resisted Astaroth's "temptations". To others, he teaches mathematical sciences and handicrafts, can make men invisible and lead them to hidden treasures, and answers every question formulated to him. He was also said to give to mortal beings the power over serpents.

>>24595715
"Schizophrenia" is just a term used to pathologize those whose narratives are inconvenient to the current paradigms. Your average flat earther or reptilian-obsessed "schizo" is no more delusional than your average neoclassical economist or Dispensationalist Evangelical.

>>24596578
Why hello Michel Foucault

>>24596578
lmao alright so you've never met or even beheld a schizophrenic

are you kidding me dude? this is a stupid as fuck opinion. schizophrenics will believe that the government is communicating to them through their stuffed animals and then threaten to kill their mom, you're fucking retarded

>>24596578
Based. Schizophrenics are intune with primordial psychic forms and forces we evolved to filter out. Sure, the physical symptomatic display is unseamly to normative humanoids, but schizoanalysis is intriguing.

I enjoy the idea that there is a long spanning war between socio/psychopaths and schizophrenics (old copy pasta):

"There is a silent war happening between Psychopaths and Schizophrenics. We know that the population numbers are very small for both groups, however one group is more likely to become CEOs (psychopaths) and the other is more likely to become homeless (schizos). This is because schizos are good at pattern recognition, and can notice the psychos. Normies are incapable of seeing psychopaths in front of them, and psychos relish and dominate because of this. Schizos are able to know them on an instinctual level and suss them out in a way that normies never could. Thus there is a constant demoralization campaign against schizos from the tyrant psychos, who seek to use the population against their greatest natural enemy."

>>24597179
nice pitch. I'd read a book about this

>>24596611
>schizophrenics will believe that the government is communicating to them through their stuffed animals and then threaten to kill their mom
Neoclassical economists tell the government that the "graphs" (which have no evidence for actually reflecting reality) say they need to not prevent the thousands of starvation and homelessness deaths every year. Dispensationalist Protestants believe the Bible (or rather, their shoddy, dual-covenant distortion of Biblical teaching) is telling them to send billions to Israel so they can wipe out the Palestinians, even if those billions of dollars could be used to feed people at home. The socially-unacceptable delusion may cause a single murder, while the socially-acceptable delusion routinely commits mass murder.

>>24596576
awesome will check out thank you anon

>>24595654
Gay reddit version of Pascal’s wager.

>>24597179
Wouldn't the schizophrenics' tendency to notice psychopathy everywhere and unseamly symptomatic displays already contribute to their demorilization and low social status? Why would you need to add a targeted campaign against them to explain it?
>>24597739
Those economists and Protestants are deluded, but they don't display the range of symptoms used in diagnosing schizophrenia.

>>24595630 (OP)
the capital by karl marx

>>24595630 (OP)
Prime intellect had some really good ideas but I couldn't believe that the MC was a woman; it was like the author wrote a man and then gave them a female name.

>>24597834
Uh, you're welcome?

>>24595654
I never really understood the whole thing about the basilisk. To me it sounds like a bunch of godless ashkenazi jews suddenly rediscovering religious belief and torturing each other with the visions of hell after that.

>>24599970
It's childish psycho-bait for autistics. It only latches itself upon a mind that operates as a series of cascading if X then Ys.

>>24595630 (OP)
https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/books/a500/incarnations-burned-children-david-foster-wallace-0900/

>>24600179
I could imagine this would be striking and upsetting if you were very young and sheltered and had never internalised the fact that sometimes bad things sometimes happen.