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infohazards

infohazards is the plural of infohazard.

Meaning of infohazard

Noun

infohazard (plural infohazards)

  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'.[2019 June 13, Tom Chivers, The AI Does Not Hate You, Orion Publishing Group, →ISBN
    Synonyms:
    memetic hazard
  2. An information hazard; a piece of information which can be used to cause harm by one who knows it.

Questions about infohazards

What is infohazards the plural of?
Infohazards is the plural of infohazard.

Words near infohazards in the dictionary

  1. infographic
  2. infographics
  3. infography
  4. infohazard
  5. infohazardous
  6. infohazards
  7. infoholic
  8. infoholics
  9. infold
  10. infolded
  11. infolder

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