Don't believe the rationalist memes. Roko's Basilisk is up there with Scientology in weird culty bollocks that only makes sense when you've been marinading in the subculture long enough that it's bled into your heuristics.

Which may mean it is in fact an infohazard, but only if you follow some of the particularly weird offshoots of meme theory which take the idea as virus metaphor far, far too literally.
 
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I know of at least one real one (not Roko's half-baked Basilisk) - I will not be telling you what it is, for obvious reasons.

But I wanna suislide anyway, so I'll likely be a dead end for that info. Pleeeeeeeaaaase.

Personally, I think it's just about as silly as it sounds.

If there existed some information on how to make nuclear-tier explosions for cheap enough that essentially anyone could do it, I think that would qualify.

*Cough* old substitution *cough*
 
If there existed some information on how to make nuclear-tier explosions for cheap enough that essentially anyone could do it, I think that would qualify.

*Cough* old substitution *cough*
ssshhhhhhhhh. We want world-ending methods to be as well known as possible in the MfD-verse.

Also, I'd like to point out that that's dangerous in implementation. If everybody know how to use nukes and didn't act on it, it wouldn't be too dangerous.
 
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The wonderful Nick Bostrom has an entire paper on the typology of real-life info hazards. It's all rather interesting and from my brief scan does not seem an infohazard in of itself. Mostly they are all examples of how information getting into the hands of someone else can change their actions in a negative way, or how info that gets into one's own hands can alter one's actions in a negative way.

I don't think it covers any info that is inherently and legitimately harmful to the person who knows it. Some areas of mysticism and religion profess the existence of certain memetic infohazards, but like, it's mysticism and religion so I can only that so seriously.

I can legit not imagine anything but Roko's Basilisk that might actually be a real memetic infohazard. If there is please PM me.

https://nickbostrom.com/information-hazards.pdf
 
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Perhaps draining a Pangolin means Chakra is drained out of Keiko simultaneously (sustain cost), meaning she is at risk of speedy Chakra exhaustion and death? Unfortunately means a hard counter to summons for those with regular human reserves
 
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