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When Knowing Prevents Doing: An Exposition On Commitment Hazards, Alexander Porter
When Knowing Prevents Doing: An Exposition On Commitment Hazards, Alexander Porter
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Information hazards are risks posed by potentially harmful true information. Information hazards include the risks posed by instructions on how to make a bomb, facts about world events which could cause harmful political unrest, or even the password to an email account being revealed. I will examine and explain one specific type of information hazard which can be seen as the subject of discussion in three well-known but disparate philosophical texts: information which draws attention away from individual control. I will argue that this idea shows up in Plato as what is being avoided through noble falsehoods in The Republic …