This is quite an interesting idea, and I got nerd sniped thinking about it. I didn't realize I had written an essay until it was done, so here it is. I think the ideas presented here are interesting, and even fun to speculate on, but the ideas ultimately depend on a deeply flawed understanding of how our universe and human psychology work. Depending on the definition of "cognitohazard", I believe they're strictly impossible, or so common that we just call it part of our human experience and we have multiple words that better describe different types. Many of the referenced ideas depend on things that can't exist within our universe, like much of the SCP wiki, thought police, or time traveling super AI. Backwards time travel is impossible. It's easy to imagine a cognitohazard if you can just imagine a fictional world where impossible things are possible. Constantly scanning every person's brain for their internal thoughts might not seem impossible at first glance, but it comes with practical unsolvable problems. I routinely help businesses figure out if IT solutions are possible, and thought police is impossible for technical reasons and because it's a badly designed toy solution that wouldn't be able to function in the complexities of the real world. Reading people's thoughts in real time would require so much energy and computational power that it's *effectively* impossible to do in real time in our universe, even at the limits of theoretical physics. Even then, deciding what thoughts are "bad" is computationally difficult enough (even for other humans) that you'd basically need a decision making system with enough power and complexity that it borders on a second brain, just to police the first brain in real-time. Notice, that you haven't actually policed everyone's thoughts, since you can't police the police. You can exert limited control on a small population when you have overwhelming resources. However, the ability to police an entire population requires god-like powers that do things like the ability to create energy from nothing or the ability to transmit/receive information without spending energy. Although interesting, god-like powers completely changes the meaning of the discussion into something unrelated from cognitohazards. Assuming no divine beings are involved, I think the definition of "cognitohazard" discussed in the video must include a few more details than just "an idea that can hurt people just by being known". If that's the only definition, then finding out you've been cheated on fits that description, and is sadly common. It seems a cognitohazard implicitly includes components of "universal" and "permanent" damage or pain. As you noted, any of the theoretically possible examples are either not universal, not permanent, or not both. This is because of human psychology, and how we understand and process ideas and emotions, and as long as we're still human, I don't think that will change. On a quick tangent, I find it interesting that all of the impossible examples aren't actually ideas. The rogue AI isn't an idea, it's an external actor who threatens you. The pain isn't from the idea, it's from the torture. In the thought police example, it's not the thought that actually causes you harm, but the people who read your thoughts and hurt you based on what you think about. If you allow the definition to include other people hurting you for having a thought, you can imagine a guy who shoots anyone who loses the game. Horrible, yes. Possible? Also yes. However, it's clear from that thought experiment that the blame for the damage falls on the person who hurts others, not on the person who has the thought, and certainly not on the specific idea. Ironically, hurting people for their ideas is something that already happens, regardless of the impossibility of determining what people are thinking. Authoritarian regimes will murder people at the suggestion that they *might* have thought something, which is horrifying but very real. However, that still leaves the definition of a cognitohazard. It's not the idea you're in trouble for, but the expression of that idea. If you keep it a secret, you don't get hurt. Which is probably why so many people lie so often. Once you move to purely thoughts with no external forces, you enter the world of internal human psychology and anatomy. If you're only dealing with thoughts, you can only inflict emotional pain. Psychology shows that both emotional pain and physical pain happen in the same regions in our brains: the prefrontal cortex and cingulate cortex. One could argue that emotional and physical pain are essentially the same. However, emotional pain is still emotional, and different than physical pain. Emotional pain follows the patterns that the rest of our emotions do. Emotions equilibrate. You can't be sad forever. You can't be happy forever. The emotions from the best and worst day of your life will eventually fade and dull with time. That's why there can't exist a permanent cognitohazard. Information can only cause emotional pain, and people's emotions eventually normalize back to a baseline that's mostly affected by their personality and mental outlook. As long as we're dealing with humans, the "permanent" side of cognitohazards is impossible, due to how we process emotions. Then, there's the "universal" part, which is defeated by the fact that people respond differently to the same situations. If a cognitohazard can't be permanent, and it can't be universal, then I'd argue they don't exist. The only thing that leaves is temporary thoughts that sometimes cause negative emotions. Those are so common that it's just part of the human experience. Spoilers are a great example of that, but there are so many ideas or pieces of information that can cause pain. Being lied to, cheated on, getting fired, waiting in line, and having buyer's remorse are all things that take place almost exclusively inside your head, and cause primarily emotional pain. Some are ideas, some are information told to us, and others are painful conclusions we arrive at with the right information. Once you expand the definition of "cognitohazards" that wide, it basically loses all meaning. You could try to keep the definition more narrow, but I believe it's impossible to get people to agree on a definition of something that's a personal experience that's impossible to have. If you're looking for something related, it's relatively easy to cause someone emotional pain with just some simple words. You could take your friends to a new restaurant, and once they start eating, tell them about all the food safety violations you've seen, and how you've seen roaches crawling on people's food in some kitchens. I guarantee that simple fact will cause them enough emotional pain that you'll be able to see it on their face. However, if you believe that knowledge and ideas can cause serious pain, doing that is morally the same as stabbing your friends with a knife. Definitely a jerk move, even if was an accident. I think that philosophy is why I'm careful about the things I say to friends. I'm aware that what I say has an effect on others, which obligates me to think about my words carefully. Not quite the spirit of a cognitohazard, but saying dumb things can definitely be damaging.
This is a very good comment and for the most part I agree. It's a much better explanation than I got on other sites and for the most part debunks cognitohazards, so you've changed my mind on the subject there. One thing I am interested in asking though is universality. From what I can tell, you argue against a universal cognitohazard by disproving my examples (where maybe a supetintelligent AI could do the thought policing, but there's just better methods to go about policing so I think you're correct there) or by saying that it is the external forces that do the harm. However, even if they are the ones doing harm, is it not still harmful to be in their presence? Is the idea itself not harmful to know even if the punisher is the one to decide your fate? If there was some liquid where if touched, a god came down to earth to kill you, would you not consider that liquid harmful? I'm personally not sure, but if not, then you haven't proven that cognitohazards can't be universal, you just explained why 2 specific ideas can't be. Basically, I'm still clinging onto some hope, but I'd very interested to be proven wrong.
As someone who is watching and thinking about this video at 4:21 am it's kinda scary trying to imagine an cognitohazard, like I feel something in my human and animal limit that if so happens to be right inquiring a cognitohazard something awful would happen and nobody in this realm could possibly help me. Like what if I can break my human programming or mind stability just by thinking about our DNA or imagine that thinking about the dendrites in my head just happens to create brain cancer,cause no normal brain is prepared for that thoughts, and its just spread as a mind virus to everyone else in this world
Knowing about the concept may cause you to catch yourself overthinking when it occurs, which in turn fuels the cycle. Without knowing the concept, i would say most of the time you would forget about the thought, with overthinking it may linger.@@titastotas1416
i swear to god i always see that image and it ALWAYS has a warning about how dangerous it is, and STILL people comment and how it hurts after they tried it, im losing my mind how are people still lkkmmmsnn idk idk idk this is so funny but so sad at the same time its 😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢
I love how smooth brained we all are despite our brains being the most complex known object in the entirety of existence. We see a diagram that very clearly states "if you perform this action successfully, you will undoubtedly cause grevious bodily harm. There is no reward, you will just unecessarily cause yourself pain". And our immediate reaction is to perform it. Like, why the hell did I do that
@@sigmaoperator1688 Oh, absolutely! We are a species defined by the fact we're terminal know-it-alls. Wasn't it a Harvard study where people were left in a room for a half hour with no external stimulus except for a button we knew gave a harsh electric shock? And majority choose to keep shocking ourselves rather than be bored.
Yeah, the same way you are blinking, swalowing your saliva and breathing manualy, right? Or is it like you actively feeling your clothes, your skin touching neighbouring skin in some places and the intruive toughts just taking over, whatever you are doing to stop them?
I prefer the term 'hazardous knowledge.' I'm a physics teacher and one day a student asked me if there was a way to destroy the universe at which point I explained the concept of vacuum decay and how we could stop existing at any moment. This caused significant distress to some students and I realized that after I explained it. I wish I didn't do that.
Dunno if this helps that student or anyone, but here's a good philosophy about these sudden cosmic instakill scenarios: can you do something to prevent it? If yes, then do it, and you'll be fine, so no need to worry. If no, there's no point in worrying anyway, because there's nothing you can do. It's helped my anxiety quite a lot!
By the way you described the last example, you could say all religion is a cognitohazard. Those that know about it, but choose not to follow it, are supposed to receive some kind of consequence. Although it sometimes isn't directly mentioned, those that don't know about it can't possibly be at fault, and rather it is the fault of the people who follow the religion or the supreme deity of the religion that failed to spread it.
As I mentioned in another comment, religion was too much for me and I didn't really get it. Some christian sources implied your idea, others said different things and it ended up being too complicated for me to untangle, so I didn't mess with it. It is a solid example though.
You are so right about that! And you could also argue that Pascal's Wager is a cognitohazard. Even worse, if you believe in a god, Pascal's Wager turns into a potential basilisk.
@@Rock6Sixes ”If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?” “No,” said the priest. “not if you don’t know.” “Then why,” asked the Eskimo earnestly, “did you tell me?” -_Pilgrim at Tinker Creek_ by Annie Dillard
Not all religion, all mainstream religion. Looking at all religion through the lens of Christianity or Islam is really stupid. Not all gods are wicked and malevolent like theirs
God it never affected me and I honestly judge anyone that gets affected by it because how are you so weak that you can let another person decide whether you’re breathing manually or not?? Tf??
@Enter54623 because when you're bored and are looking at something and reads you are doing something manually its the most recent thought and you wanna do it.
@@chaoswhaletv6306 not only that but people who are prone to overthinking and those who have issues related to anxiety are probably going to feel weird, uncomfortable, or even scared when they read something like that.
@@Enter54623 it effects everyone no matter what because as soon as you acknowledge that you read it, you acknowledge your breathing which, in turn, makes you naturally balance your breath. If something like this doesn't effect you then there's probably an underlying issue
@@Enter54623 You cannot tell me you dont start manually breathing? Im certainly still affected by it, but I just dont care. Manually breathing is not bothersome for me, and since I dont care i go back to breathing automatically very quickly. But I dont believe you dont do that at all.
About getting hurt, I have a quote from Marcus Aurelius that has helped me a lot: "You don't have to turn this into something. It doesn't have to upset you." This helped me through many things.
I didn't know that was a quote but is something I've learned the hard way. It almost never helps. Deal with it internally and let it go unless you have no other choice.
I'd like to point out that as a response to the information about breaking your own thumb, my dominate right hand went weak for approximately 1 min. Moreso, I think it was triggered when I thought about doing it myself. I wonder if that was my body saying, "No, stupid."
This is why you should not trust everything you see online. The picture showing you how you can break your own thumb isn’t actually true, it’s actually a diagram of a medical condition. Please do your research before trusting everything you see online.
OCD makes this whole concept even more of a nightmare. When your mind can latch onto any thought or fear, there are a lot of things it’s better not to be aware of. For example, as a child I experienced occasional minor sleep paralysis. It didn’t bother me too much but I was curious about it, so I did some research. I found out about the possible nightmarish hallucinations, and of course, I was terrified it would happen to me. The next time I had sleep paralysis, of course, it happened. The idea was planted in my mind. I was so anxious about them that they started happening more and more, to the point where I developed insomnia that lasted for years.
The moment you explained what a "Cognitohazard" was I instantly recalled a few moments in my life when I just stared off in the distance after watching a video or finding out about something. Its as if in that moment that information was gonna change my whole life but I dont really think about it much that moment.
@@trinityanderson859 I feel like I know exactly the feeling you're talking about. The same thing happens to me with physics. But it's never like the math side of physics or anything, it's always a concept that I've intuitively understood for a long time. And it's not something anyone's ever had a reason to teach me, I just somehow understood it already.
This is like Pascal's shitty argument for believing in God. What if the AI wants to torture you for helping building it? The same dilema. You don't have any reason to choose one or another except because of your assumptions about what the AI will do.
I just wanna say thank you because seeing that actually prevented me from breaking my thumb. I worked at a factory job and was assembling something with my hand in that pose and then I remembered this video before I hit my hand against the part. So, thank you. Maybe it doesn't depend on the information but on how it's used. Definitely an interesting concept thatbshould be taken seriously though.
Your autonomic reflex system would prevent you from breathing. When you drown, you first suffocate because of lack of oxygen to the brain. Only after this do your relaxed lungs allow water ingress. But if you die on land, your lungs stick together and rigour mortice would prevent ingress of any or little water. This is how we know if someone was murdered before being thrown into water.
@@kanish9390 Beak Hair Full out there, and remember what happened to Bono... Bono... dressed as 'The Messiah'… accompanied by a fellow band member, walked drunkenly into a bar in Belfast... then thunderously announced to all in the bar that he was the 'The Messiah'... 'The Bono-fide Second Coming! The barman rolled his eyes and retorted uproariously... Jesus Christ. 'Not U2 again'!
Wait they can bar you from jury duty if you understand the principles of jury nullification? That HAS to be unconstitutional. "We can't let them band together and use their humanity in their rulings, they must obey our rules to the letter." Nah, jury nullification is protected as part of the 6th amendment if you ask me. Feels like kicking them out for understanding their options is just an imposition of control
@@GlorifiedGremlin jury questionnaires are made to ensure a jury pool is capable of reaching a desicion purely on the law. If you know about jury nullification, you might go into the case with the goal of achieving nullification.
As others have mentioned, I think gore is an extreme example of such hazards. Exposure to various forms of extreme bodily harm can stick in the mind for years as a constant reminder that the body is far more fragile than we believe. And not just that, but knowing that at any moment in your life the things youve seen could end up happening to you is terrifying. Personally, I find myself much more catious around certain types of people, industrial machines make me uneasy whereas they once didnt, blades and razors bring many images to mind. Its strange because for the longest time i never considered myself the kind of person to be affected by things like that. Blood never scared me, I was well aware of the things thay can happen to the human body, i had heard of such things second hand. But it wasnt until being exposed to it myself did i start to notice a feeling of nausea when seeing depctions of it, loss of appetite durong conversations about similar topics, and so on. I even imagine it happening to people i care about, what it would look like, how utterely heart shattering it would be- its hard to put into to words the uneasyness i now feel about such subjects. And have been putting significant effort into avoiding them for the sake of my health.
Yeah my grandfather did some farming and he hated killing chickens, he had to get drunk to do it. I really think his experience in WWII made him way more averse to blood and violence than the average person.
I think the only positive effect gore has on the human mind is to be more skeptical When I was younger I'd fall for many of those "do not search" videos and websites I'm almost 100% sure the reason why an airhead like me hasn't met a dead end yet is because I know the only people I can trust are me and my parents and I blame this on the stuff I saw... But I do wish I could unsee many of the stuff that ended up sticking to my mind till this day
The most terrifying thing about Roko's bassalisk to me isn't necessarily the idea itself, but rather the fact that's it genuinely takes a bit of effort to understand why it is ultimately not a threat. It implies that perhaps a more carefully constructed idea similar to Roko's bassalisk could actually be realized, and harm society as a whole. Now that I think about it, I suppose that makes Roko's bassalisk an infohazard? Just the knowledge that these things could possibly exist may give bad actors the idea to construct one themselves... quite terrifying!
Considering what its on the table, there genuinely is a threat; we are nowadays in the era of AI based content, there's only so much time until we get to a "Skynet" type of AI system, and with it, Roko's Basilisk. Saying there isn't a threat because the possibilities are small isn't invalid, but the chances are NEVER zero; ultimately Roko's Basilisk cannot do good, because the good we want it to do, won't be the same good we'll need whenever it gets finished, which is why we'll suffer from not having it at the time of thought.
roko's basilisk does not work on people who believe that it is impossible for a computer to take over all human government on earth because in any realistic scenario no matter how futuristic and without any outside influence like aliens, the humans would win the war by destroying all power plants and power lines and sieging the robots until they run out of power. In real-world physics, the electric motors that all robots using known technology need use HUGE amounts of electricity, and all known battery technology is actually extremely limited in how _long_ it could sustain killer robots running and flying around killing everyone. *Power plants and electric grid would become a very weak point in the robots' supply chain and no matter how heavily they tried to defend them, humans would put their terrorism skills to work bombing every power plant they can find and severely cripple the robots' power reserves early on*
I believe it's even more unrealistic to claim the robots could use petroleum power, because I firmly believe that by the time the machine learning models you see today have evolved enough to come anywhere close to general human intelligence, almost all the oil will _definitely_ be gone up in the atmosphere
I think a good example of cognitohazard is watching a crime unfolds. The fact that you know who the culprit is and what he did presents a severe threat, as he may want to silence you.
But its not your knowledge that is hurting you. Its the fact that the criminal knows about your knowledge. If you saw it but nobody knows that you saw it you arent in danger.
There's something called the witness protection program. They put you under a false identity before you appear in court and hide you in a random city until your court date.
The only example I can think of instantly is knowing about certain medical conditions. The fact you can drop dead from a brain aneurysm at absolutely any time with zero warning is a cognitohazard. Prior to knowing this I had no anxiety towards it, because its not something you consider. But now I know it, I consider it a possibility, even if that possibility is very small. A small amount of constant background anxiety has now increased. Or how about looking at your watch? As in knowing the time. Say you are laying awake in bed unable to sleep before work the next day, you are starting to worry about how late it is, and that how when you wake up in the morning you are gonna be so tired from not sleeping enough. Either you look at your clock, and think; 'oh crap its so late, I'm going to be so tired tomorrow' and now you have anxiety, which ironically wakes your body up slightly more, and makes you 'try' harder to fall asleep, which also ironically makes your brain more active because now its thinking, which keeps you awake even more too. OR You intentionally dont look at your clock, intentionally making yourself unaware of the actual time, so you can at least try and believe that its not too late, and that you will get just enough hours sleep to not feel tired the next day. Ignorance is bliss. In this example, knowing the time is the cognito hazard.
I dont know if this is related or not, but I was pretty convinced for a long time that I was able to turn my brain off by just "focusing" very hard on it and it always felt like the more I tried, the stronger this feeling got and that I was clearly about to die if I pushed just a little further. What if its actually is possible, but you just cant prove it since you die once you really test it?
To a certain extent quite a lot of thoughts can be cognitohazards because they may have unintended negative effects. Cognitohazards are better when applied to things whose knowledge is inherently negative, where there's really not much reaction to the knowledge except distress in some way or another.
Counter argument: you can avoid it by saying "ok and?" Literally not caring nerfs your cognitohazards. Real ones like from the SCP universe are much more dangerous.
I think trauma is a real life cognitohazard. If you've been traumatized, you now have information which, if triggered, will bring you into a state of severe anxiety and panic. In some cases, leading to death by suicide or something like a heart attack.
also, discovering that you have trauma is a cognitotohazard. when youre unaware you think "this is how it is, how its suppose to be" when meet with cons of traumatic event. then, if you finally go to the therapist theyll tell you, you were traumatised and its like"???? what do you mean??" you realize you do all of these thing bc; how you were treated in the past, how past experiened gave you those great fears. and you want to get better, be happy you have to put so much work. spend years to heal and that process is tough and hurts. you are the one with the choice of healing or staying the way youre knowing that you were hurt badly in the past. personally, i realised i live in an abusive household when i was still in primarly school, so it felt like its impossible to heal there. the realizacion was teribble cognitohazard, even tho therapy help a lot experiencing it consciously feels like living in a cage.
@@hades_ddtrauma......... Idk how to describe this but I'll check my veins if it's like bulging you know sometime it is varicose(maybe) But after that I start to panic because of it like And my pulse rate will start jacking up and it's just bad I hate it so much
@@hades_dd id like to imagine it like this the infomation that triggers you is cognitohazard the infomation about trauma itself is not a cognitohazard
But what is trauma? My grandfather was beaten in front of me by a person who broke into the wrong house looking to steal from someone, I didn’t know that was trauma until recently. Other peoples trauma is that they’re parents were a bit distant growing up. Both are equal I know but something seems off
Am I certain that I want to watch this piece of virtual media despite the consequences that may occur in the future which can also affect my mental health? Yez.
The infohazard you presented just explained why my thumb hurt for over a year after a fall I took while skiing (I somehow landed directly on my thumb with my full bodyweight).
@@satgurssome people say that the game starts when you first hear about it since you probably wont beat the 10 years from before you first hear about it
In Puella Magi Madoka Magica, the knowledge of the source of Witches is a cognitohazard, because it inevitably makes Magical Girls realise that they will lose their humanity one day, on top of the fact that they have been killing what remains of Magical Girls, essentially making them give in to their Grief.
I had played The Game in Highschool but didn't spread it to my friends outside of school. I fell out of touch with most of my highschool friends after graduating so naturally I went without losing for YEARS. It was almost like I had won, almost completely forgetting about The Game. Then I was in-between jobs and ended up working at a McDonald's where one of my highschool friends was working. While we were closing up shop one night I heard him say "Damn I just lost The Game" to himself after looking at his phone and let me tell you... I don't even know what words to use to describe the feeling I felt. I was shocked, it took all the air out of my lungs, and I felt so light headed I had to sit down. I could almost physically feel the memory of The Game come from the back of my mind. My friend turned around and asked me if I was ok. He thought I was having some medical emergency. My friend felt terrible after I explained what happened, but a few minutes later we were laughing about it and everything was fine... But for those few minutes it felt terrible. I'm a huge fan of SCP and have even submitted some writings to the wiki. I didn't think of The Game as a Cognitohazard but it makes so much sense now that you've explained this.
I think, PTSD is the most common type of damage from cognitohazard, so in my opinion everyone have their personal cognitohazard. Someone can become mentaly ill after war, but someone else will be still mentally stable.
The last example was brutal. I experienced similar with the not so recent pandemic. I was out my country, did not watch any media outlets online or in TV for the period. And there was 3 month ongoing pandemic I didn't know about so it literally has not affected me in any way. Only things you are aware of exist, can have an effect on you. This says a lot about how amazing a brain is. And it proves that with our thoughts we shape our reality. "As above, so below - as within, so without."
A word of advice. Question everything and you wont fall for the fear mongering. People generally don't like to do their research, but if you dont want to be scared you need to be knowledgeable on what you are being conditioned to be afraid of. At the end of the day, a doctor can tell a patient they will die of cancer in 2 years, and you can cry about it your whole day then walk out the hospital and get hit by a car the same day. Or you could go into spontaneous remission, live for 60 years and pass in your sleep, or from a heart attack at 55. No one knows how or when we will die except Allah The Creator of The Worlds. Do your best and leave the rest to Allah subhanahu w ta'ala. Dont waste time worrying about one thing and then something you never expect could harm you catches you by surprise, or nothing bad ever happens at all.
I haven't watched the news in months, only the big things reach me and even then they don't really affect me and my daily routine, I try to not let media dampen my mood, it's all fearmongering to sell $ in the guise of beneficial information.
By modifying the basilisk, you can make it a hyper intelligent, purely sentient AI with the ability to do whatever it wants that decides to kill anyone who assists or is involved in creating it. This, of course, includes everyone who works on the AI. However, it can also extend to said workers' parents, as well as anyone who funded the project. This can go so far as people who had no idea that the AI was being constructed being killed by it, by doing things like, for example, not buying something that one of the people working on the basilisk wanted or needed. If you didn't get the last Coca-Cola out of a vending machine, and then one of the people working on the project did, the basilisk would decide to kill you. Even talking about it with others could count as assisting in its creation, as you would be spreading the word, which could lead to someone funding the project. As long as it somehow helps the AI, you're dead. Of course, this would never happen, because unless there was a way to track every human activity ever, the basilisk would have very little idea of who helped it.
Yeah roccos basilisk is a what if that doesn't really hold any more weight than a thousand other hypothetical super AIs that could torture or reward people who did any number of things.
I like, how each time we think of an "AI" going rogue, we auto-assume it will have means to actually harm people. Chill, it's just a computer programm, and tge scariest thing it could do, is brick your phone or PC
@hellothere-dc4ju I had completely forgotten about this video, the only thing I can remember is that it may have been disturbing I find it interesting yet concerning that my experiment on myself worked.
Panic disorder is infohazard I think. Basically a person who experiences a panic attack once can develop such a fear of experiencing it again that they cause themselves to be at a higher risk of experiencing another panic attack. Like if they had an unexpected panic attack as they were sleeping they may be afraid of their bed and be anxious around it, causing them to lose sleep, and be put at a higher risk for another panic attack.
same can be told about anxious and depressing thoughts, they can't hurt or stress you as long as you don't think about it. This is also why people who build up stress try to keep themself busy constantly because the moment they are left with their thoughts alone it hits like a truck.
I have panic disorder, and it does spiral in this similar way. Fretting about every little thing that could possibly be wrong with me is a big part of panic attacks for me
There was one time in my literature class that I thought about having a panic attack, and as a result, I got the closest to having a panic attack in my life. I curled up in my chair with my arms wrapped around my knees and had to figure out how to ground myself, which I did by eventually grabbing a pencil and writing literally anything. Part of what caused it, too, was also being conscious of my own heartbeat, which used to be a much worse cognitohazard to me than it is now thankfully. Thinking about it would sometimes keep me from going to sleep at night, and I started getting it to slow down only to realize it sped back up once I was breathing normally again. I had to relearn how to breathe at night independently of my heartbeat, even though each heartbeat after an exhale felt particularly uncomfortable. I think of it much less these days.
A mantra, if you will... "One day, you're gonna wake up, eat your breakfast, brush your teeth, go about your business. Then, sooner or later, you're gonna realize you haven't thought about it. None of it. And that's the moment you realize you can forget. When you know that's possible, it all gets easier." -Mike ehrmantraut
@@mtfe-1144 which SCP is that ? Him is making me think of the Scarlet King. Might be wrong that. Another info hazard I remember is about the afterlife and how you will feel all of your atoms in pain forever
Me: it's probably just thought experiments Also me: * enters the worst battle I've ever fought in my life with my intrusive thoughts on the first example*
Hate to pull another fiction example, but I really like this one. In Ted Chiang's "What's Expected of Us" (I guess Spoiler Alert, but the story is meant to be read more than once), a device is invented that turns on a lightbulb exactly one second before the person presses it, in all cases, without exception. It's essentially a proof for fate being written in stone and free will not existing. When people learn about this, most lose all hope for life, and they become irreparably depressed. That would be a pretty good example of a cognitohazard.
Kinda like The Three Body Problem where physicists commit suicide because they are tricked into believing the laws of physics are impossible to know and thus their work/future is futile
I suspect this isn't related to SCP, it's also the third source I've found. "Qualified immunity" is probably the most profound one I know of. Officers know the legal system will protect them from their own wrongdoing and thus, do wrong.
that is a really good example. Let's start with: yes simply knowing about it makes your life worse: you expect things to go bad when interacting with law enforcment even if you have done nothing illegal, and develop a general mistrust in the system in place to protect you. However it is situational, as it is not valid everywhere. To further my point, I'll make an example that is probably not true for you: corruption at low level burocracy, meaning, if you don't brivbe in some way the clerk in front of you, you will never be able to coplete even the most basic burocracy task. For example, you lose your wallet and you need to have aal your documents reissued and your cards blocked? Now you have to bribe the clerck at the motorization, and the one at the bank, and if you are lucky you don't need to bribe their respective manager because the task is so menial
It's the age old anecdote about a Christian missionary in the Inuit camp. The missionary tells an Inuit that those who do not worship Christian God will go to hell. The Inuit asks: "What about those who do not know that Christianity exists?" Missionary: "They won't go to hell, because they do not know any better." Inuit: "Then why did you tell me?"
The human centipede 2&3 movies are centered around an infohazard becoming a hazard. The 2nd film is about a man who saw the 1st film as a fictional film and decided to make it a reality. And the 3rd film was a similar situation. The scariest part about these movies to me is that someone crazy enough in our world will watch these movies and try to make a human centipede in real life.
just thinking about that movie scares me. My boyfriend watched the first movie while I was drawing something, the Tv stands pretty close to my working desk so I did listen most of the time but only took a glibse every now and then. I almost puked. No movie ever disgussed me that much without even watching it myself. I'm not scared of horror movies but thrillers. Because I know that this could be done in reallife. Sometimes I imagine that somewhere on our planed humans might me held in human farms, are forced to give birth to children and will be eaten by other humans. I mean everything is possible.
@@Фор-ы3е It is, but we have built in parts of our brain which helps us not to kill or harm ourselves, in simpler worlds, the feeling of pain and discomfort.
that's an interesting take and takes a lot of thinking to comprehend. I may be wrong but I'm assuming you're talking about conciousness of the human brain itself. Another simpler example related to yours is studying someone's psychological behaviors and patterns to predict their actions.
Some mistakes in life will forever haunt you, regardless of whatever action you take later. They are therefor cognitohazards to know about. You can never again see yourself as innocent once you have committed a crime. Another example is addiction. Once you know how something tastes and how it will make you feel, your all the more tempted to try it again. Not sure if lies count but if I told you a lie and you believed it fully. That may stop you from ever knowing or investigating the truth. How harmful the lie is would of course depend on the lie but regardless of what it is, you would trust it and that will impair your judgement.
Biological assistant here, so read at your own risk. Basically everything about genetics and how we currently treat it, especially if you dig deep enough into inherited diseases (like Hemophilia, which is genetically inherited) and how to propagate them by only treating symptoms, not the source, is a Cognitohazard. You will in most cases act differently towards people with such diseases just by knowing this and that they are hemophiliac, because now they are one of the "spreaders". Be it that you pity them, or distance yourself with them. I guess the same could be said about many diseases. Just to clarify, btw, With genetic diseases I mean actual ones like sickle cells (which, ironically, makes you less susceptible to malaria if it is only expressed on one chromosome, so it might even be a blessing in disguise), Huntingtons or hemophilia. Not the ones certain experts on TV or in history try to brand as genetics that need to be "removed". Those mainly are spreading false information on purpose, creating cognitohazards all on their own, or have half-knowledge themselves. Is a cognitohazard possible by knowing not all of it?
If I understand this correctly, knowledge that you should avoid a person is an infohazard, as it doesn't pose you an immediate thread. If I were to know that some guy in Asia should be avoided, my life wouldn't change. A cognitohazard is an idea where, somehow, just knowing about the guy I'd be doomed. And yes you don't need all information of the idea for it to be harmful.
The Medellian (Mendelian?) model of genetics is also right but also wrong. The punnett square only looks the way it does because the experiments he ran were only ran after "purifying" the strains he was working on. So he did genetic engineering/intentional breeding to isolate and control for externalities. So the model everyone learns in high school is actually incorrect and would only be the case in a highly controlled testing environment; or in humans, only possible with eugenics... which we got into multiple world wars trying to make that _not_ happen. There is no gene "for" anything and based on an asinine amount of interdependencies, every possible human trait in our species is possible to be expressed in any individual, regardless of who their parents are... theoretically. At least from my layman's understanding. Not so much a cognitohazard, as a "this science is technically correct but also not appplicable as taught in pretty much every situation outside of a heavily-controlled testing environment." situation.
Great vid, once I started thinking about it I realized cognito hazards are all around us they're just mundane: memories of terrible trauma, knowledge of gangs or govs that they want kept quiet, awareness of how incredibly precarious human civilization or the economy or your own health really are. All of these ideas get people killed every day with bullets or stress.
I think any sort of imagery or even text graphic enough to cause ptsd by simply looking at or reading it could be considered a cognitohazard. Another cognitohazard is simply discovering any sort of new knowledge which is such a severe infohazard that it would cause absolute catastrophe if spread (its enough for you to believe it would do that, not it actually doing that), thus you want to just tell nobody about it, however it's actually very painful to hold onto secrets of that magnitude and can also be traumatizing.
@@dantessa In 2020, Facebook had to pay 52 million usd to its content moderators as a result of a class action lawsuit due to them developing PTSD over having to review graphic shit. (There's a fair share of scientific papers on the matter, too, but I think this illustrates the point well enough) So, yes, you can develop PTSD from it.
after nuclear Tests in the 60's the background radiation increased like 100 times. Splitting the atom was an info hazard. Putting the Hiroshima Nagasaki situation aside (that's war) there was very nuch permanent damage from humanity playing with nukes.
I think the idea of immortality (and perhaps depending on whether you believe in them the ideas about afterlives) is probably a good example of a cognitohazard. The presentation of something distinctly better than what is achieveable causes measureable anguish and longing in those who are aware of it. Worse too it's a cognitohazard which is memetic in nature, those who are aware of the idea of immortality/ an afterlife tend to act in such a way as to achieve it if at all possible and this inevitably informs others about the idea. On a related note immortality is in my own opinion something which we as a species should pursue. Involuntary death is a concrete and large negative aspect of reality and we definitely have a moral obligation to dispel it as soon as we are able.
Another one would be the concept of racism. Without being introduced to it, including by the actions of others as a result of it, there isn't any harm incurred. Even if you fundamentally aren't a racist individual the concept of racism will affect how you interact with people of other races, it is no longer merely a physical feature or set of features, the idea of distinct groups is now in your head whether you generally utilise it or not. This inevitably worsens or prevents relationships that would have otherwise been beneficial, even just to leave aside the direct enaction of types of harm on others. This one has again some pretty insidious hallmarks: it's memetic again, but also now has the added bonus of being social in nature. Being social means that it can have compound effects and that any attempts to eliminate the idea itself also acts to deregulate the behaviour of those who still hold it. The latter point of which is completely disturbing, it means it's unclear whether we can kill the idea of racism and it seems to be that our best approach is to supress it's social effects, which has its own problems (Its also treating the symptoms rather than the disease). I'd wager that the majority of cognitohazards one can find out about actually have these sorts of characteristics, they are memetic (probably rare amongst the class of all cognitohazards) and have propagated so efficiently that the entire population holds them. Without point of contrast the harm isn't as immediately evident and so the idea of preventing the spread of the cognitohazard doesn't occur to people, which only increases memetic virality.
I don't think the pursuit of immortality is a cognitohazard because i don't think pursuing that has a negative effect on you. It's not a "folly" or "waste of your life" to pursue it because imo, it's entirely possible to achieve. For example, I picture genetic researcher inventing, after years of his team doing cellular research, a superhuman cell that can take on any dna given to it and will never wither, divide incorrectly, and will always be operating at 100%. You then inject someone with these cells, and boom! Completely scientifically possible form of immortality. You wouldn't then say those researchers wasted their life or had a negative effect from learning immortality may be possible at the start of their research because it was possible, and they achieved it.
@@thekamotodragon I do agree that it is scientifically possible to discover immortality. Personally I think that mind uploading appears to be the more promising route than biological immortality. The point I was trying to make was that it remains a cognitohazard until exactly the point you describe where it is within scientific reach and someone pursuing it attains a viable method. It's contextual in the same way as the 1984 scenario presented in the video. For example in ancient china and other ancient cultures there were individuals who tried to pursue immortality, and while it is likely scientifically possible (leaving aside super long-term entropy concerns) at the time knowledge was not developed enough, nor could it feasibly be developed enough in one life-time for any of these individuals to succeed in their endeavours or even make meaningful progress. In that scenario then the idea of immortality would have been a cognitohazard, distracting their efforts and causing emotional harm through jealousy directed towards an image of their ideal selves which they could not reach. As I stated in my first comment on the subject I am a proponent of immortality oriented research, death is a clearly greater negative than the harm caused through the pursuit of immortality, given that it is possible and in the long run achieved. But one should understand that we may be planting trees the shade of which we will never sit under, we may be the generation to push the concepts without reaping any benefits. In which case to us the idea would have been a cognitohazard, causing unmitigated harm. The definition given for a cognitohazard is limited to the scale of an individual and long-term, ethical or societal goods are not being taken into balance, it is merely a looking at harm caused to the individual. Going back to the 1984 analogy, rebellious thoughts and actions are distinctly good for the society and prevent harm in the long-term, however the individual who expresses them only experiences harm so it's considered a cognitohazard. Ethically we would probably argue that individuals should rebel. Similarly ethically we probably should be pursuing immortality research, but that is not necessarily implying it will be positive for us as individuals.
@@thekamotodragonThough in the case of the scientific researchers you describe even supposing they weren't successful, I don't think it would meet the criteria for being a cognitohazard, because they will likely derive some pride from their contributions and some enjoyment of the work itself. In which case the harm wouldn't be unmitigated and so I wouldn't really count it as a cognitohazard at that point. It would only be a cognitohazard to those who want it, but don't pursue it or otherwise gain no positive experience out of pursuing it.
@@Rendertk1 Most people don't think immortality or genetic research is ethical, but I think you think like me where we're both science-minded and understand biological human imperative. Like, i believe it's a biological imperative of ours to reproduce and want to live as long as possible. That's what i want anyways, so imo and from my own moral worldview, i also think it's something that should be pursued, as it could save many lives. It's only a "cognitohazard" if you or the general culture at large is convinced that immortality is wrong and there are negative effects associated with it's pursuit. For most of human history that has been the case, but ONLY because people thought it was so impossible that it's mythological, just too ridiculous to even try. But now, from my POV, as someone who i think understands our technological advancements, i feel it's completely possible and within our reach. Someone just has to go out and do the research to make it happen (might have to be me). Also, i only suggested the "genetic engineering" path to immortality over the robotics one because, while you're right, robotics is probably more likely, i prefer the all biological option. Not a big fan of a cyberpunk future, but love the idea of natural, biological evolution. I'm thinking more Ergo Proxy, less Bladerunner. Putting my brain in a robot feels wrong, weirdly lol. My morals are strange i guess, natural is better in my mind due to it's long track record of success throughout history.
Another infohazard that isn't discussed much is what drugs feel like. If you know some drugs are the best feeling you could possibly experience, you are more likely to seek them out.
it can be offset some by the knowledge that the experience is singular. Yes, that was a hell of a high, but you will never have that same feeling again, every time will be different and almost certainly never as good. Don't chase that dragon.
I suffer from heavy anxiety and derealization from an experience where I essentially thought of new perspectives that were extremely damaging to think about. There are certainly things and thoughts better of not pondering.
I feel you so much, I did not write about it because I guessed no one would understand. There are things in my mind that I MUST NOT watch. I reached things, in my subconscious, so deep, where it lies the solution to the hard problem of consciousness. I wish so much I never saw those things...
Literally relatable asf. My mind is constantly thinking about if I did something, people talk about things around me not knowing that I do this and when they end up saying it they trigger my anxiety but I have to act like nothing's wrong so they don't find out and feel guilty.
You guys already know about the basilisk so I don't feel too bad about saying this... So allow me to be a menace to society. This might be because of the way we've come in contact with the basilisk but the OP fails to encapsulate the true horror of Roko's basilisk. According to the OP the basilisk isn't very hazardous because it is incapable of time travel so it can't torture the people of the past that didn't help in it's creation, which is a moot point. What makes Roko's basilisk so terrifying is that it's a nigh-omniscient and omnipresent super computer, it creates countless near perfect simulations of all of Human history and perfectly replicating every human that and has been, everything they've ever known, felt, heard... You get the idea, through this brute force:ish method it finds out who helped in it's creation and who didn't, and after knowing everyone who didn't help in it's creation it recreates a perfect replica of all of their consciousness and having that suffer through unimaginable torture until the end of time... P.S this also lead to a small chance of it being wrong and torturing someone was "innocent"😇
I think Solipsism is an actual cognitohazard if pondered upon long enough, ponder upon it longer and you'll realize that it is just a thought experiment, and the idea itself is laughably unserious
hmm, the idea that you're the only person to exist? Can't say I've thought about it long enough, but to me it seems like a commentary on uncertainty that is once again killed by Occams Razor. Feel free to correct me though.
@@Rock6SixesI'd say it's killed by Alder's razor (better known as Isaac Newton's Flaming Laser Sword) and the falsifiability principle. You are after all capable of imagining things, and so assuming that you (whatever you are) could imagine/hallucinate *everything* isn't such a large premise. At least to me it doesn't seem obvious that it should die by the hand of Occam's razor, as it is a sufficiently straightforward (if incomplete) explanation of the world. The real problem is that if true, it has no consequences, and so it's a valid strategy to act as if it isn't- think of it like a reverse Pascal's wager.
@@Rock6Sixes Occam's Razor states that the correct answer is probably the one that needs the smallest set of elements. So either I'm the only existing being and the universe is my hallucination, or I'm one of trillions of beings in an ever expanding universe filled with countless galaxies, stars, planets, black holes...
Brilliant video! Although the fact that it's not as known to people makes it more special, I do hope for certain that it will be recommended across UA-cam - It's fascinating because it didn't cross my mind yet that such a concept could exist
that's essentially what i hope to make videos about - ideas that should be more well known, although, there will be more standard ideas thrown in there too, especially when it comes to games.
Cognitohazards: 1. Knowing how and when you will die. Knowing future of any kind, basically, spoilers. 2. Things that you can't unsee or unhear. The bass synth repeating part ruined nyan cat song for me. It is better heard in a sped up version. Anoyher obvious example is kim possible upper lip being a moustache. 3. The idea of being defective. For example, questioning reality as a result of gaslighting. 4. The truth. It is always shocking if you understand that you have been thinking wrong your whole life. I had a very tough time after talking to a psychologist about love. We talked about the definition of the word and it came out as "it is an ability to enjoy someone just the way they are". I thought that I haven't ever been truly loved by anyone, even by my parents (they had trouble showing love). This thought literally destroyed me (it was a cognitohazard). Later I understood that many people just display care in different ways, which I don't always notice. This misunderstanding was a really harmful thing. If you can implant this thought into someone's head, they will literally break. And if you then say "*but I* like you the way you are" they will literally become your slave. Very scary and powerful stuff. Now i said it and it became an infohazard. The thing with cognitohazards is that they are not universal and in most cases based on your childhood trauma
I mean you are right. If you happen to tell some sad kid that his parents didn't want him I would become an infohazard for them. Or telling an orphan that their parents were bad people. Kinda sad if you think about it
Yeah many times before I would listen to a song then all of a sudden hear one of the instruments and now I can't stop hearing it and it kind of stops being as good as before
@@EvilSantaTheTrueok. Here's a cool trick. Listen yo better music. Music should have good harmony and mix. Meaning you don't experience this part where you motice baseline and don't like it anymore. People listen to awful music all the time, not everyone has the ear for this stuff. Don't feel peer pressured into tolerating sonething that you hate somatically.
@@sakesaurus Music is different. For me, I always listen in layers. I became a musician AFTER I knew I had this gift. And it's so subjective to talk about music, because people can be into something now and, a week or so, be listening to some other genre altogether. They don't realise the music is bad, they just jump to the other thing that is more in tune with what they feel.
A small tip that I learned a while ago, is that negative infomration is typically placed higher than positive information when your brain is creating thoughts. From an evolutionary standpoint; this make perfect sense, because if you have some kind of problem, your brain bothering you about it allows you to have additional incentive to fix it. But at the same time, because we live in a world with the internet, we can become aware of way more things that are a problem (like world hunger, wars, disease, poverty, ect) and therefore your brain will start bothering you about it. But the problem with this is, the sheer amount of effort that you would probably need to put in to solve something like that is insane and an impossibility. So because of this, it will continue to keep harming you until you forget about it TL;DR Any negative piece of information or any problem that you are aware of that you can't fix is a cognitohazard because thinking about it degrades your mental health.
Hey, thank you for making this video, it inspired me to do a whole school presentation about this theme. I must say your video was so far the best one out of those regarding this topic.
i have honestly always had a problem where i heard terrible things and then i subconciously act on it. I honestly am just always somone who is always sick of myself. This was a very intereating video tho. Yeah, someimes knowing about knowledge rlly makes u think and it sucks ALOTTT
If you haven’t already, you may want to do some research on the issues you’re struggling with. It could be something you can address with a psychiatrist or therapist if you get the chance. if that isn’t an option, learning more about the symptoms you’re experiencing can still help immensely. I have OCD and your description reminds me of what I’ve gone through. I just want to make sure you know you aren’t alone and there are things you can do to help manage the things you’re struggling with!
I think I’ve seen the you are now blinking/breathing manually thing enough to be basically immune to it, so theoretically you can get used to cognitohazards and therefore be immune to that specific type of
I feel like sometimes I will be conscious of my breath, my beating heart or of my blinking eyes for a moment, but no one can really spend a lot of time thinking about it. Eventually they forget and move on to other things.
There are plenty of *contextual* cognitohazards. It's really hard to think of any *general* cognitohazard that doesn't rely on some aspect of someone's personality or conception of the world. Ironically it's much easier to craft deliberately targeted cognitohazards than completely indiscriminate ones.
i had such a high curiosity years ago that i learnt a lot about many many different things. While none of the individual things were cognitohazards, the collective set of them were. this caused me to spiral into depression, and now im here, recovered, and forgot most of what i learnt. The relationship between different sets of information is quite an interesting one
I think the best example is fitness and self-improvment. Doing it is fun and it will help you, but you have to do it, the more you think about it the more it torturess you. Especialy in improving/changning oneself. So you need other to help you to get your mind straight. I had that problem of complete isolation to self-improv. At the end i was hard depressiv, then you do not concentrate on it or think about it/the idea is not given to you(social media). You forget and achieve what the idea cant....
Lowkey had the same problem. Not doing something feels terrible when you know you should be doing it, but if you don't know then it has no effect on you.
I honestly believe that if someone sees their mental illness as something they can't fix, that knowledge alone causes them to not even try, and a horrible cycle of depression ensues. edit: Stuff like schizophrenia and the more extreme illnesses are a little different, and I am in no way qualified to talk about this besides from my own personal experiences.
That's very close to my reality until I was placed on a mental health leave with some treatment requirements: counseling and doctor's visits. It gets stuck in your head that it's there forever, or that there is no good nature towards you from others. Ugh. horrible feeling to articulate.
TW: Death One thing I truly think would be a cognitohazard is knowing what happens after death, especially if the answer is nothing. It obviously depends on the person, but I can definitely see how it would mess up alot of people.
This is me. Whenever I think about death, my body physically rejects it. I just feel uneasiness and hopelesness, and it feels horrible all around the board. I consider myself a relatively rational person, but thinking about death puts me in a bad spot
@@canodepvc2837 Nothing irrational about it. The concept of nothingness (if that's your concept of death) is a natural thing to be scared of, as it's something us humans can't really comprehend. I sometimes find myself having minor panic attacks whenever I think too far into it, so you're not alone.
the thing is, even if some supernatural told you directly "this is what will happen", there's still no real way to know. it may be just a test or a misdirection. until you experience it yourself, you won't know
@@canodepvc2837for those who are uneasy about nothingness after death, let me tell you this. What were you in before you were conceived? Where was your soul? Your consciousness? If you can perceive that as nothing, you can perceive death as returning to that nothingness too.
This reminds me of a lot of people from the past generation in China tells their kids to “suffer to work hard (or even cutthroat) towards success or always suffer”, but most of these kids find out that if they never listened anyway and kept at their own pace, they are actually far from suffering.
Heres one I thought of: A tourniquet costs about £30 and takes 10 minutes to learn to use. Before you read that, if you came across someone bleeding out, you would be well justified in saying that it was not your fault that you couldn't save them - you've not been trained, you dont have the equipment. Now you will know you might have saved them if you'd just spent a small amount of time and money and a little space in your backpack. Anyway, mine arrives in the mail this week. Enjoy being stresed everytime you leave your home until you have one! x (also search free first aid course [your area] and see how easily you could be trained in CPR!)
Anything can and will become a tourniquet if you're desperate enough. Even a jeans belt. Anything. Even the jeans themselves. You just spent 30$ on something you do not really need. But on the need of it, I'm 46 year sold, can you imagine how many times did I need to use a tourniquet on some bleeding wound? 0. I'm trained in CPR, can you guess how many times did I see in real life someone needing CPR? 0. in 46 years. Not even before being trained. Never. So, I do believe I'm not unique and you, after you bought that tourniquet, will not use it for the next 40 years or so, untill you expire from natural causes. But congrats for keeping it in your bag, it shows you care for the others even though in a rather silly way. Do you know how many times all I needed was an inexpensive paper wipe to help someone? Hundreds. I can't even count them. Just make sure you always carry around a 10 wipes pocket pack and replace it when it's empty. Cheapest one will do, you don't need it to smell like flowers or anything. It can also be used as toilet paper in case it is missing when you need it, which also happens rather often in public toilets. It's a lot more useful than your tourniquet.
As a medical student, I treat every piece of clinical information that way, I tell my self if I don't study and train hard enough I might loose a patient because of my laziness. I find it hard to sleep some nights because of this thought
@@perfectcutvideos110 When I was a child, then a teenager, I used to think technology and medical science are all mighty. A medic of the right specialty with the right tools can cure everything. Took me long years to understand. A medic is actually a sort of battle hardened mercenary that joins you in battles nobody can win. And he fights till your last breath. But the big battles, the ones where you have to put your faith into the medic because nothing else would work, are the battles nobody can win. And yes, medics can fail. Yes, patients do die. And it is almost never the medic's fault. It's just that the battles they fight for us are so much against all odds, that sometimes no miracle can suffice. Prepare well, but please do know that you will fail, no matter how well prepared you are. Not always, but only when it really matters. Edit: Well, between my previous reply and this one, I did a CPR. On a person that died by bleeding out, lower abdomen. He died while I was applying pressure to stop the bleeding, but it did not stop. I knew CPR was useless, I knew CPR can not replace lost blood, but I just could not stop doing it. And no, I did not have a way to place a tourniquet. Maybe because I never bought one? @AzuL4573
For me the most dangerous thought is the idea of perpetual existence vs nothing. If we die and there is nothing, that kind of sucks, but because we are experiencing something right now it makes sense that we may continue to experience something after death. Which is even more terrifying because if we continue to experience eventually we will experience all there is to experience and then all we will be left with is doing the same things over and over again for eternity. Even if reincarnation happens and our memory is wiped it wont change that fact. Thats why i hope that death is final.
I think people are naturally against the idea that death ends everything, but that's what I personally think. You'll just cease to ever think or experience anything ever again and, eh, it is what it is, I certainly won't be able to say much about that state.
@@Rock6Sixesenergy cannot be created or destroyed, only changed from one state to another. You don't think the soul is energy? Or you don't believe in the soul? You don't have to believe in reincarnation or anything, but I'm curious as to your nihilistic point of view
@@bipolarswag321 @bipolarswag321 no I don't particularly believe in a soul. I think the human brain is a whole bunch of neurons relaying signals between each other like how a computer relays a bunch of signals between it's transistors. Turn off a computer and it'll just be off. Same with a person, probably. I don't think this is a nihilistic point of view. I don't know what exactly happens to all the energy, but I'd guess that it moreso just stops moving and slowly fades away somehow. I doubt it would coalesce into some imperceptible object that could form consciousness of it's own.
In some religion, if you are born in a country or situation that doesn’t allow you to know that you have to pray for a god, u won’t go to hell, but if someone tries to teach you but you refuse you will go to hell, so learning that there is a god puts you In a position where you have to take time and effort to worship this god, while you could have simply not know abt it and got away
This also can disprove the existance of god, as free will does not exist and believers of god or disbelievets are both influenced by past and didn't have a choice
If you're talking about Islam, then this is not fully correct. While, yes, not knowing of God will not send you to he'll, that doesn't mean that's the end of it. Those who didn't hear of Islam or the proper version of it (I.e. if they were lied to about what Islam entails to make them scared of it) will not be punished, but instead go through a separate test on the day of judgment to determine their place in the hereafter (so they don't just get away with it). But this doesn't mean if you purposefully neglect learning of Islam, you will be safe. Instead, that just means you are willfully ignoring learning the "truth" despite being able to, so it just comes down to one's intention.
I think honestly the best example of a cognito hazard by your definition is unconventional and not quite as hazardous but still affects you long term. Gore. Gore upon sight especially when real, will immediately attack the brain causing distress and discomfort. These are short term effects. The long term effects especially during repeat viewing or if gore is instated as a core memory (memory that is attached to a specific emotion/feeling/smell/taste) can cause repeat psychological harm and actual damage to the brain as the distress part of your brain is fired so much it ends up being destroyed. Which has been proven to by investigation and scientific studied to lead to behavior that results in activity’s such as mass shooting and serial killings.
Can u elaborate exactly on this distress part of the brain and why firing this can end up destroying it? What i think u mean is probably the cortisol/stress that is pumped from adrenaline can somehow lead to a sort of harm, but not sure if you mean the ability of one to be able to build tolerance, or be incapacitated by so called "firing". And so how does this lead to mass killings, or serial murders? I'm honestly curious as to what studies, maybe cite some examples? Because I'm sure you won't answer this comment, because what u said sounds completely biased and you haven't ever studied anything about any of the things u spouted as facts. You don't even sound like you know what you're talking about. And people don't always have to be damaged beyond repair, many times you can turn that into making you wiser and confident, and possibly even inspire someone from similar labels or, handicaps, background. Because if you overcame it, someone else can too. Mental health is real you, but it's people like you who don't help the issue at all by already condemning them folks to a lesser than state. It hurts because I feel a bit knowledgeable on the subject and can sort of speak on it, as I have a family member whom many think as a lost cause, or helpless, but I believe they can triumph over and will triumph over the limitations imposed by life. As a matter of fact, I know they have. We as a family, community, friends, and peers, have witnessed his improvement. And I'm eternally grateful for them not giving up and being patient, and to God for fortifying us all through the hurdles, because it was a team effort. Now they can go and help those afflicted by those same hindrances, and pay it forward.😂😢😮😅😊🎉
@@bipolarswag321 all sorts of neurotransmitters are slightly neurotoxic. Long-term increased release of them will destroy noteworthy amounts of neurons. Brain damage as a result of excitatory stress can heal to a degree, but in general people with for example Dissociative Identity Disorder have like 30% smaller Hippocampus and larger Amygdala. This should give an idea of how repeated stress affects the development of human brains. In any case, any severe trauma will always destroy a significant part of your existing configuration of neurons. However, glutamate being neurotoxic is actually quite important in giving us the ability to learn to begin with.
From experience, I can say for certain this is true. There are some things I have been exposed to that have definitely left a lasting impact in how I go about spending my time and the ways I think. From razors, to industrial machines, knowing how the human body can just come apart at a moments notice is haunting
You were ramping up to the "The Game" bit and I was like "Oh! He's gonna mention the game, not gonna get me this time!" And then realized that you'd already gotten me this time.
I could be oversimplifying a part of it, but Gnosticism could be seen as a religion built around a cognito hazard. One thing I remember hearing in a documentary about it is that people are reincarnated up until they learn about gnostic thought, at which point they either (once again, simplifying) follow gnostic practice and go to heaven, or don't and cease to exist/go to hell. Crazy take on early christianity!
Gnosticism actually separates people into three groups. And even in the case that you are aware of gnostic thought and don't take it seriously, you are still just stuck in the cycle of reincarnation as you always were, with the possibility of redemption later on. It's only special cases that are stuck in the cycle of reincarnation forever due to outright hostility.
The last ancient gnostic Christian religion that is still practiced is in Iraq and it's cslled Mandaenism. It's unfortunate not possible to convert to this religion; you have to be born into it, and they are very secretive about their faith, so I don't believe that they have this belief you described as part of their faith, as it's not possible to follow their practices even if you learn about it
@@CoreDump451 That might be true for that particular sect, but people can still emulate practices they have heard about and many people have gnostic beliefs without being part of an organized religion. Which is fitting.
The placebo effect can be a fabulous cognitohazard. There have been documented cases of healthy people suddenly falling ill and experiencing severe symptoms when mistakenly told they have a certain disease. This isn't just the good ol' "Web MD said I should be getting a headache if I have Super Bad Sickness, so my head is going to start hurting", but cases where doctors mixed up patient records, leading perfectly healthy people to exhibit actual symptoms of certain diseases they don't have once being told the false information.
@felixprime8291 Hm, based off of the name, I'd assume "nocebo" would be a form of denial (and taking a sense of security in being away from something) and/or not experiencing an effect because the person didn't know they were under the effect of something.
This is quite an interesting idea, and I got nerd sniped thinking about it. I didn't realize I had written an essay until it was done, so here it is.
I think the ideas presented here are interesting, and even fun to speculate on, but the ideas ultimately depend on a deeply flawed understanding of how our universe and human psychology work. Depending on the definition of "cognitohazard", I believe they're strictly impossible, or so common that we just call it part of our human experience and we have multiple words that better describe different types.
Many of the referenced ideas depend on things that can't exist within our universe, like much of the SCP wiki, thought police, or time traveling super AI. Backwards time travel is impossible. It's easy to imagine a cognitohazard if you can just imagine a fictional world where impossible things are possible. Constantly scanning every person's brain for their internal thoughts might not seem impossible at first glance, but it comes with practical unsolvable problems. I routinely help businesses figure out if IT solutions are possible, and thought police is impossible for technical reasons and because it's a badly designed toy solution that wouldn't be able to function in the complexities of the real world. Reading people's thoughts in real time would require so much energy and computational power that it's *effectively* impossible to do in real time in our universe, even at the limits of theoretical physics. Even then, deciding what thoughts are "bad" is computationally difficult enough (even for other humans) that you'd basically need a decision making system with enough power and complexity that it borders on a second brain, just to police the first brain in real-time. Notice, that you haven't actually policed everyone's thoughts, since you can't police the police. You can exert limited control on a small population when you have overwhelming resources. However, the ability to police an entire population requires god-like powers that do things like the ability to create energy from nothing or the ability to transmit/receive information without spending energy. Although interesting, god-like powers completely changes the meaning of the discussion into something unrelated from cognitohazards.
Assuming no divine beings are involved, I think the definition of "cognitohazard" discussed in the video must include a few more details than just "an idea that can hurt people just by being known". If that's the only definition, then finding out you've been cheated on fits that description, and is sadly common. It seems a cognitohazard implicitly includes components of "universal" and "permanent" damage or pain. As you noted, any of the theoretically possible examples are either not universal, not permanent, or not both. This is because of human psychology, and how we understand and process ideas and emotions, and as long as we're still human, I don't think that will change.
On a quick tangent, I find it interesting that all of the impossible examples aren't actually ideas. The rogue AI isn't an idea, it's an external actor who threatens you. The pain isn't from the idea, it's from the torture. In the thought police example, it's not the thought that actually causes you harm, but the people who read your thoughts and hurt you based on what you think about. If you allow the definition to include other people hurting you for having a thought, you can imagine a guy who shoots anyone who loses the game. Horrible, yes. Possible? Also yes. However, it's clear from that thought experiment that the blame for the damage falls on the person who hurts others, not on the person who has the thought, and certainly not on the specific idea. Ironically, hurting people for their ideas is something that already happens, regardless of the impossibility of determining what people are thinking. Authoritarian regimes will murder people at the suggestion that they *might* have thought something, which is horrifying but very real. However, that still leaves the definition of a cognitohazard. It's not the idea you're in trouble for, but the expression of that idea. If you keep it a secret, you don't get hurt. Which is probably why so many people lie so often.
Once you move to purely thoughts with no external forces, you enter the world of internal human psychology and anatomy. If you're only dealing with thoughts, you can only inflict emotional pain. Psychology shows that both emotional pain and physical pain happen in the same regions in our brains: the prefrontal cortex and cingulate cortex. One could argue that emotional and physical pain are essentially the same. However, emotional pain is still emotional, and different than physical pain. Emotional pain follows the patterns that the rest of our emotions do. Emotions equilibrate. You can't be sad forever. You can't be happy forever. The emotions from the best and worst day of your life will eventually fade and dull with time. That's why there can't exist a permanent cognitohazard. Information can only cause emotional pain, and people's emotions eventually normalize back to a baseline that's mostly affected by their personality and mental outlook. As long as we're dealing with humans, the "permanent" side of cognitohazards is impossible, due to how we process emotions. Then, there's the "universal" part, which is defeated by the fact that people respond differently to the same situations.
If a cognitohazard can't be permanent, and it can't be universal, then I'd argue they don't exist. The only thing that leaves is temporary thoughts that sometimes cause negative emotions. Those are so common that it's just part of the human experience. Spoilers are a great example of that, but there are so many ideas or pieces of information that can cause pain. Being lied to, cheated on, getting fired, waiting in line, and having buyer's remorse are all things that take place almost exclusively inside your head, and cause primarily emotional pain. Some are ideas, some are information told to us, and others are painful conclusions we arrive at with the right information. Once you expand the definition of "cognitohazards" that wide, it basically loses all meaning. You could try to keep the definition more narrow, but I believe it's impossible to get people to agree on a definition of something that's a personal experience that's impossible to have.
If you're looking for something related, it's relatively easy to cause someone emotional pain with just some simple words. You could take your friends to a new restaurant, and once they start eating, tell them about all the food safety violations you've seen, and how you've seen roaches crawling on people's food in some kitchens. I guarantee that simple fact will cause them enough emotional pain that you'll be able to see it on their face. However, if you believe that knowledge and ideas can cause serious pain, doing that is morally the same as stabbing your friends with a knife. Definitely a jerk move, even if was an accident. I think that philosophy is why I'm careful about the things I say to friends. I'm aware that what I say has an effect on others, which obligates me to think about my words carefully. Not quite the spirit of a cognitohazard, but saying dumb things can definitely be damaging.
This is a very good comment and for the most part I agree. It's a much better explanation than I got on other sites and for the most part debunks cognitohazards, so you've changed my mind on the subject there. One thing I am interested in asking though is universality. From what I can tell, you argue against a universal cognitohazard by disproving my examples (where maybe a supetintelligent AI could do the thought policing, but there's just better methods to go about policing so I think you're correct there) or by saying that it is the external forces that do the harm. However, even if they are the ones doing harm, is it not still harmful to be in their presence? Is the idea itself not harmful to know even if the punisher is the one to decide your fate? If there was some liquid where if touched, a god came down to earth to kill you, would you not consider that liquid harmful? I'm personally not sure, but if not, then you haven't proven that cognitohazards can't be universal, you just explained why 2 specific ideas can't be. Basically, I'm still clinging onto some hope, but I'd very interested to be proven wrong.
@@Rock6Sixes I really like seeing smart people discuss things i dont 100% understand but just pretend i know what their talking about.
@@enhanced_retard you might like my videos then
@@Rock6Sixes Ah nvm, I didn't watch the video fully.
Let me pull a reddit I IANT READING THAT
The silliest of us who refuse going down random information rabbitholes are ones who sleep the best
As someone who is watching and thinking about this video at 4:21 am it's kinda scary trying to imagine an cognitohazard, like I feel something in my human and animal limit that if so happens to be right inquiring a cognitohazard something awful would happen and nobody in this realm could possibly help me.
Like what if I can break my human programming or mind stability just by thinking about our DNA or imagine that thinking about the dendrites in my head just happens to create brain cancer,cause no normal brain is prepared for that thoughts, and its just spread as a mind virus to everyone else in this world
As someone that closed their eyes for the infohazard example I plan to sleep well tonight
@@mondongoloco7902everything is scary to people who live in California.
Oh hey you're the airsoft guy! Also yeah I agree with your point. Rabbit holes are quite a cognito hazard
@@mondongoloco7902go to bed
Overthinking can probably be considered an info hazard.
How is overthinking an info...?
It’s just misinformation not an info hazard
knowing how to make a pipe bomb is an Info hazard 💀
Overthinking isn't an infohazard, since knowing of overthinking does not cause you any kind of harm.
Knowing about the concept may cause you to catch yourself overthinking when it occurs, which in turn fuels the cycle. Without knowing the concept, i would say most of the time you would forget about the thought, with overthinking it may linger.@@titastotas1416
You underestimate my ability to forget the info after 0.1 second lol
U have damentia
No i don't
@@Kodgaming-oh4qu no i don't have dementia
@@Kodgaming-oh4qu nuh uh
@@Kodgaming-oh4qu i don't have dementia bro
I broke my thumb
No way !
I don’t feel my muscles
how did you write this?
No you didnt james
I know what you did, James
Me: “I cannot tear my thumb ligament by doing this simple action”
Also Me: *very nearly hurts myself*
same, it hurt
i swear to god i always see that image and it ALWAYS has a warning about how dangerous it is, and STILL people comment and how it hurts after they tried it, im losing my mind how are people still lkkmmmsnn idk idk idk this is so funny but so sad at the same time its 😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢
I love how smooth brained we all are despite our brains being the most complex known object in the entirety of existence. We see a diagram that very clearly states "if you perform this action successfully, you will undoubtedly cause grevious bodily harm. There is no reward, you will just unecessarily cause yourself pain". And our immediate reaction is to perform it. Like, why the hell did I do that
@@mspaint93 We naturally want to prove things, more so than wanting to keep safe.
@@sigmaoperator1688 Oh, absolutely! We are a species defined by the fact we're terminal know-it-alls.
Wasn't it a Harvard study where people were left in a room for a half hour with no external stimulus except for a button we knew gave a harsh electric shock? And majority choose to keep shocking ourselves rather than be bored.
Video: you probably shouldn’t watch this video.
1.6 million people:
Now 2.4
Averge human brain:
Don't do that = Do that
Do that = don't do that
You're cringe
Uploading a UA-cam video to the public and telling everyone not to watch it is dumb af
@@coredettawell no, because it got 2.4 million to watch said video
"You are now thinking manually."
Manual blood circulation
my thoughts keep going but the narrator in my head reads some of them out loud
Yeah, the same way you are blinking, swalowing your saliva and breathing manualy, right?
Or is it like you actively feeling your clothes, your skin touching neighbouring skin in some places and the intruive toughts just taking over, whatever you are doing to stop them?
@@aquablue3dsimanual food digestion
As a rhythm game player i can stay 2 minutes without blinking
I prefer the term 'hazardous knowledge.' I'm a physics teacher and one day a student asked me if there was a way to destroy the universe at which point I explained the concept of vacuum decay and how we could stop existing at any moment. This caused significant distress to some students and I realized that after I explained it. I wish I didn't do that.
Weak minds lol
Just reassure them that they are probably just Boltzmann brains anyway.
kurzgusagt?
Dunno if this helps that student or anyone, but here's a good philosophy about these sudden cosmic instakill scenarios: can you do something to prevent it? If yes, then do it, and you'll be fine, so no need to worry. If no, there's no point in worrying anyway, because there's nothing you can do. It's helped my anxiety quite a lot!
By the way you described the last example, you could say all religion is a cognitohazard. Those that know about it, but choose not to follow it, are supposed to receive some kind of consequence. Although it sometimes isn't directly mentioned, those that don't know about it can't possibly be at fault, and rather it is the fault of the people who follow the religion or the supreme deity of the religion that failed to spread it.
As I mentioned in another comment, religion was too much for me and I didn't really get it. Some christian sources implied your idea, others said different things and it ended up being too complicated for me to untangle, so I didn't mess with it. It is a solid example though.
You are so right about that! And you could also argue that Pascal's Wager is a cognitohazard. Even worse, if you believe in a god, Pascal's Wager turns into a potential basilisk.
@@Rock6Sixes ”If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?” “No,” said the priest. “not if you don’t know.” “Then why,” asked the Eskimo earnestly, “did you tell me?”
-_Pilgrim at Tinker Creek_ by Annie Dillard
*tips fedora*
Not all religion, all mainstream religion. Looking at all religion through the lens of Christianity or Islam is really stupid. Not all gods are wicked and malevolent like theirs
I've been exposed to the "you are now ___ manually" so much I'm essentially immune to it.
God it never affected me and I honestly judge anyone that gets affected by it because how are you so weak that you can let another person decide whether you’re breathing manually or not?? Tf??
@Enter54623 because when you're bored and are looking at something and reads you are doing something manually its the most recent thought and you wanna do it.
@@chaoswhaletv6306 not only that but people who are prone to overthinking and those who have issues related to anxiety are probably going to feel weird, uncomfortable, or even scared when they read something like that.
@@Enter54623 it effects everyone no matter what because as soon as you acknowledge that you read it, you acknowledge your breathing which, in turn, makes you naturally balance your breath. If something like this doesn't effect you then there's probably an underlying issue
@@Enter54623 You cannot tell me you dont start manually breathing? Im certainly still affected by it, but I just dont care. Manually breathing is not bothersome for me, and since I dont care i go back to breathing automatically very quickly. But I dont believe you dont do that at all.
I watched this in incognito mode so I am safe
So you won't have to deal with SCP-096 to come after ya
This is a criminally underrated comment lmao
what happens if i dont watch it in incognito mode
@@star67811 WEEEE WOOOO WEEEEEE WOOOOO
@@star67811 YOUR TIME NOW ENDS
*(Insert goofy ahh and very very evil, scandalous, loud, haunting, scary, and mean laughter)*
About getting hurt, I have a quote from Marcus Aurelius that has helped me a lot:
"You don't have to turn this into something. It doesn't have to upset you."
This helped me through many things.
Dude wasnt he like a femboy
Great quote and it's easier said than done
That's a coarse summary of the most fundamental idea of Stoicism. I advise you delve further; there is good info there.
I didn't know that was a quote but is something I've learned the hard way. It almost never helps. Deal with it internally and let it go unless you have no other choice.
I agree
I'd like to point out that as a response to the information about breaking your own thumb, my dominate right hand went weak for approximately 1 min. Moreso, I think it was triggered when I thought about doing it myself. I wonder if that was my body saying, "No, stupid."
That's literally an example of what was said in the video
lmao same, i only did it a little bit, and my thumb muscles like half stopped working for a min
Huh it doesn't seem to be working for me.
Dominant*
This is why you should not trust everything you see online. The picture showing you how you can break your own thumb isn’t actually true, it’s actually a diagram of a medical condition. Please do your research before trusting everything you see online.
OCD makes this whole concept even more of a nightmare. When your mind can latch onto any thought or fear, there are a lot of things it’s better not to be aware of.
For example, as a child I experienced occasional minor sleep paralysis. It didn’t bother me too much but I was curious about it, so I did some research. I found out about the possible nightmarish hallucinations, and of course, I was terrified it would happen to me. The next time I had sleep paralysis, of course, it happened. The idea was planted in my mind. I was so anxious about them that they started happening more and more, to the point where I developed insomnia that lasted for years.
as someone with ocd. this convinced me to not click play on the video ty
Same
OH YEAAAAAAA, i remember learning that, specifically thinking/fearing certain things when going to sleep only increases the chances of it happening
ocd is hell
@@badateverything2931 WHAT
The moment you explained what a "Cognitohazard" was I instantly recalled a few moments in my life when I just stared off in the distance after watching a video or finding out about something. Its as if in that moment that information was gonna change my whole life but I dont really think about it much that moment.
If you feel comfortable and safe talking about it here.
I'm very interested my dear friend.😁
Sometimes I’ll watch a video and be terrified by the fact I knew information before it was told to me. Especially when it comes to physics
@@trinityanderson859 what do you mean exactly? Could you give us an example?
@@zombee67 I don’t know how to explain that any better
@@trinityanderson859 I feel like I know exactly the feeling you're talking about. The same thing happens to me with physics. But it's never like the math side of physics or anything, it's always a concept that I've intuitively understood for a long time. And it's not something anyone's ever had a reason to teach me, I just somehow understood it already.
"You probably shouldn't watch this video."
3,270,357 people: _But what if I did?_
For anyone legitimately worried about Roko's Basilisk, let me introduce you to a 100% get out of jail free card. Reverse Roko's Basilisk.
thanks!!!!
How does that work?
@@josephstalin3120
An ai that would punish you for helping build its competitor (Roko's Basilisk)
Yeah, no. Now we have two basilisks torturing twice as many people 🙃
This is like Pascal's shitty argument for believing in God. What if the AI wants to torture you for helping building it? The same dilema. You don't have any reason to choose one or another except because of your assumptions about what the AI will do.
I just wanna say thank you because seeing that actually prevented me from breaking my thumb. I worked at a factory job and was assembling something with my hand in that pose and then I remembered this video before I hit my hand against the part. So, thank you. Maybe it doesn't depend on the information but on how it's used. Definitely an interesting concept thatbshould be taken seriously though.
You're welcome
@@good1742bro did NOT make the video 🙏😭
@@haha1516;-;
@@good1742 who is thanking *you* bro 😭
This video helped me not accidentally create an atomic b0mb while cooking an omelette
One cognitohazard is when someone you love says something so mean to you that it traumatizes you, sometimes for life.
Например когда мать говорит тебе, что отец не хотел чтобы ты рождался
my family is a cognitohazard!
@@tess252or you're to them.
love is a cognitohazard by itself
@@vladimir8035or just that very notion itself
If you're drowning, you probably *shouldn't* start breathing...
Aw, come on!
Your autonomic reflex system would prevent you from breathing. When you drown, you first suffocate because of lack of oxygen to the brain. Only after this do your relaxed lungs allow water ingress.
But if you die on land, your lungs stick together and rigour mortice would prevent ingress of any or little water. This is how we know if someone was murdered before being thrown into water.
@@jamestrent-nw9zb damn, should look through that for my next one
@@kanish9390 Beak Hair Full out there, and remember what happened to Bono...
Bono... dressed as 'The Messiah'… accompanied by a fellow band member, walked drunkenly into a bar in Belfast... then thunderously announced to all in the bar that he was the 'The Messiah'... 'The Bono-fide Second Coming! The barman rolled his eyes and retorted uproariously... Jesus Christ. 'Not U2 again'!
Jury Nullification? To my memory in many US states you may be not allowed to jury if you understand your juror options well enough
ah, that's a pretty good one, forgot about it
More of a cognitoboon if anything
You get to take time off work for jury duty, which doesn't sound so bad. As a non-citizen, I don't have experience though.
Wait they can bar you from jury duty if you understand the principles of jury nullification? That HAS to be unconstitutional. "We can't let them band together and use their humanity in their rulings, they must obey our rules to the letter." Nah, jury nullification is protected as part of the 6th amendment if you ask me. Feels like kicking them out for understanding their options is just an imposition of control
@@GlorifiedGremlin jury questionnaires are made to ensure a jury pool is capable of reaching a desicion purely on the law. If you know about jury nullification, you might go into the case with the goal of achieving nullification.
I was kind of expecting an SCP explanation of cognitohazards, and I've never realized there's real life interpretations of them too
same
" R u breathing?"
⚪️⚪️|⚪️⚪️⚪️⚪️⚪️|⚪️⚪️|⚪️ |i think i did it right)
@@Private_jin ah yes, scp-2521, the thing where if you talk about i-
i mean 𓇙𓋽𓃹𓄑𓏝𓎦𓄄𓃇
Knowing anything a cartel or government don't want you to know basically, you get the "real" pulitzer
came for rain world, stayed for philosophical essays with spiritual themes.
the rockman pipeline
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scug
artificer did nothing wrong
i mean, rain world is a kind of philosophical essay with spiritual themes
5:29 YOU SON OF A
😂😂
yeah this is definitely the closest we have to a cognitohazard in daily life
but it doesnt even do anything for me
You are now aware of your teeth.
As others have mentioned, I think gore is an extreme example of such hazards. Exposure to various forms of extreme bodily harm can stick in the mind for years as a constant reminder that the body is far more fragile than we believe.
And not just that, but knowing that at any moment in your life the things youve seen could end up happening to you is terrifying. Personally, I find myself much more catious around certain types of people, industrial machines make me uneasy whereas they once didnt, blades and razors bring many images to mind.
Its strange because for the longest time i never considered myself the kind of person to be affected by things like that. Blood never scared me, I was well aware of the things thay can happen to the human body, i had heard of such things second hand. But it wasnt until being exposed to it myself did i start to notice a feeling of nausea when seeing depctions of it, loss of appetite durong conversations about similar topics, and so on.
I even imagine it happening to people i care about, what it would look like, how utterely heart shattering it would be- its hard to put into to words the uneasyness i now feel about such subjects. And have been putting significant effort into avoiding them for the sake of my health.
Yeah my grandfather did some farming and he hated killing chickens, he had to get drunk to do it. I really think his experience in WWII made him way more averse to blood and violence than the average person.
I think the only positive effect gore has on the human mind is to be more skeptical
When I was younger I'd fall for many of those "do not search" videos and websites
I'm almost 100% sure the reason why an airhead like me hasn't met a dead end yet is because I know the only people I can trust are me and my parents and I blame this on the stuff I saw... But I do wish I could unsee many of the stuff that ended up sticking to my mind till this day
Gore is fine.
@@TheCaregiverSITMOB oh ok, thanks for your well thought-out and persuasive response
@@TheCaregiverSITMOB 🤖
The most terrifying thing about Roko's bassalisk to me isn't necessarily the idea itself, but rather the fact that's it genuinely takes a bit of effort to understand why it is ultimately not a threat. It implies that perhaps a more carefully constructed idea similar to Roko's bassalisk could actually be realized, and harm society as a whole. Now that I think about it, I suppose that makes Roko's bassalisk an infohazard? Just the knowledge that these things could possibly exist may give bad actors the idea to construct one themselves... quite terrifying!
Considering what its on the table, there genuinely is a threat; we are nowadays in the era of AI based content, there's only so much time until we get to a "Skynet" type of AI system, and with it, Roko's Basilisk. Saying there isn't a threat because the possibilities are small isn't invalid, but the chances are NEVER zero; ultimately Roko's Basilisk cannot do good, because the good we want it to do, won't be the same good we'll need whenever it gets finished, which is why we'll suffer from not having it at the time of thought.
Eh, I think it's just scary on the surface. The idea is scary. It doesn't really take long to dismantle, but it would be a great villain in a story
roko's basilisk does not work on people who believe that it is impossible for a computer to take over all human government on earth because in any realistic scenario no matter how futuristic and without any outside influence like aliens, the humans would win the war by destroying all power plants and power lines and sieging the robots until they run out of power. In real-world physics, the electric motors that all robots using known technology need use HUGE amounts of electricity, and all known battery technology is actually extremely limited in how _long_ it could sustain killer robots running and flying around killing everyone. *Power plants and electric grid would become a very weak point in the robots' supply chain and no matter how heavily they tried to defend them, humans would put their terrorism skills to work bombing every power plant they can find and severely cripple the robots' power reserves early on*
I believe it's even more unrealistic to claim the robots could use petroleum power, because I firmly believe that by the time the machine learning models you see today have evolved enough to come anywhere close to general human intelligence, almost all the oil will _definitely_ be gone up in the atmosphere
@@tacokonekoUoure assuming the machines won’t develop into us. We run on electricity too.
I think a good example of cognitohazard is watching a crime unfolds. The fact that you know who the culprit is and what he did presents a severe threat, as he may want to silence you.
@@user-st2gc9gc7etf are you on
am I in danger now?
But its not your knowledge that is hurting you.
Its the fact that the criminal knows about your knowledge.
If you saw it but nobody knows that you saw it you arent in danger.
There's something called the witness protection program. They put you under a false identity before you appear in court and hide you in a random city until your court date.
that would be infohazard from what i understood
I just realized religion is a textbook definition of a cognitohazard
The only example I can think of instantly is knowing about certain medical conditions. The fact you can drop dead from a brain aneurysm at absolutely any time with zero warning is a cognitohazard. Prior to knowing this I had no anxiety towards it, because its not something you consider. But now I know it, I consider it a possibility, even if that possibility is very small. A small amount of constant background anxiety has now increased.
Or how about looking at your watch? As in knowing the time. Say you are laying awake in bed unable to sleep before work the next day, you are starting to worry about how late it is, and that how when you wake up in the morning you are gonna be so tired from not sleeping enough. Either you look at your clock, and think;
'oh crap its so late, I'm going to be so tired tomorrow' and now you have anxiety, which ironically wakes your body up slightly more, and makes you 'try' harder to fall asleep, which also ironically makes your brain more active because now its thinking, which keeps you awake even more too.
OR
You intentionally dont look at your clock, intentionally making yourself unaware of the actual time, so you can at least try and believe that its not too late, and that you will get just enough hours sleep to not feel tired the next day. Ignorance is bliss.
In this example, knowing the time is the cognito hazard.
So true these are good I would tell you what the medical condition that made me anxious was but that would be bad wouldn't it
By what you're saying i think the root cognitohazard here is the anxiety disorder we both seem to be plagued with.
I dont know if this is related or not, but I was pretty convinced for a long time that I was able to turn my brain off by just "focusing" very hard on it and it always felt like the more I tried, the stronger this feeling got and that I was clearly about to die if I pushed just a little further. What if its actually is possible, but you just cant prove it since you die once you really test it?
To a certain extent quite a lot of thoughts can be cognitohazards because they may have unintended negative effects. Cognitohazards are better when applied to things whose knowledge is inherently negative, where there's really not much reaction to the knowledge except distress in some way or another.
Counter argument: you can avoid it by saying "ok and?" Literally not caring nerfs your cognitohazards. Real ones like from the SCP universe are much more dangerous.
I think trauma is a real life cognitohazard. If you've been traumatized, you now have information which, if triggered, will bring you into a state of severe anxiety and panic. In some cases, leading to death by suicide or something like a heart attack.
also, discovering that you have trauma is a cognitotohazard. when youre unaware you think "this is how it is, how its suppose to be" when meet with cons of traumatic event. then, if you finally go to the therapist theyll tell you, you were traumatised and its like"???? what do you mean??" you realize you do all of these thing bc; how you were treated in the past, how past experiened gave you those great fears. and you want to get better, be happy you have to put so much work. spend years to heal and that process is tough and hurts. you are the one with the choice of healing or staying the way youre knowing that you were hurt badly in the past.
personally, i realised i live in an abusive household when i was still in primarly school, so it felt like its impossible to heal there. the realizacion was teribble cognitohazard, even tho therapy help a lot experiencing it consciously feels like living in a cage.
@@hades_ddtrauma.........
Idk how to describe this but I'll check my veins if it's like bulging you know sometime it is varicose(maybe)
But after that I start to panic because of it like
And my pulse rate will start jacking up and it's just bad
I hate it so much
hhaahaha so many cognitohazards.
@@hades_dd id like to imagine it like this
the infomation that triggers you is cognitohazard
the infomation about trauma itself is not a cognitohazard
But what is trauma? My grandfather was beaten in front of me by a person who broke into the wrong house looking to steal from someone, I didn’t know that was trauma until recently. Other peoples trauma is that they’re parents were a bit distant growing up. Both are equal I know but something seems off
You don’t fear Roko’s Basilisk because you thought about it.
I don’t fear it because I don’t let a computer tell me what to do.
We are not the same.
Sigma energy
Shad
I don't fear it because everyone can agree not to build it.
I'm going to hit roko's basilisk with a stick just to make it angrier on purpose
@@Jray608I'm going to build it so it knows not to use me as a slave
0:22 wait am i in danger? Oh well lets see how this timeline goes.
Am I certain that I want to watch this piece of virtual media despite the consequences that may occur in the future which can also affect my mental health?
Yez.
The infohazard you presented just explained why my thumb hurt for over a year after a fall I took while skiing (I somehow landed directly on my thumb with my full bodyweight).
💀
look for Pygmalion effect
I don't think you needed to know what an infohazard was to realize you thumb hurt because you landed directly onto it ☠️
THE WHOLE VIDEO WAS JUST AN EXCUSE TO SAT "THE GAME"!!!???
Hey have you thought about the game it's been 3 months?
@@Sentinel_White a month since thought about the game now
Thanks
I now lost the game
And if you have notifs turned on, you too
@@cubefromblender nooo
@@Sentinel_White We are reaching to talk about the game
I started playing the game 1 year ago with my cousins: So when I heard the word “lose”, even before you mentioned it I knew exactly what comes next.
you were born a year ago???
@@satgurs nah, we just found out about the game 1 year ago
@@satgurshow on Earth did you come to that conclusion lol
@@tiredsocks you start playing the game the moment you're born, regardless of whether you know of its existance
@@satgurssome people say that the game starts when you first hear about it since you probably wont beat the 10 years from before you first hear about it
In Puella Magi Madoka Magica, the knowledge of the source of Witches is a cognitohazard, because it inevitably makes Magical Girls realise that they will lose their humanity one day, on top of the fact that they have been killing what remains of Magical Girls, essentially making them give in to their Grief.
I had played The Game in Highschool but didn't spread it to my friends outside of school. I fell out of touch with most of my highschool friends after graduating so naturally I went without losing for YEARS. It was almost like I had won, almost completely forgetting about The Game. Then I was in-between jobs and ended up working at a McDonald's where one of my highschool friends was working. While we were closing up shop one night I heard him say "Damn I just lost The Game" to himself after looking at his phone and let me tell you... I don't even know what words to use to describe the feeling I felt. I was shocked, it took all the air out of my lungs, and I felt so light headed I had to sit down. I could almost physically feel the memory of The Game come from the back of my mind. My friend turned around and asked me if I was ok. He thought I was having some medical emergency. My friend felt terrible after I explained what happened, but a few minutes later we were laughing about it and everything was fine... But for those few minutes it felt terrible. I'm a huge fan of SCP and have even submitted some writings to the wiki. I didn't think of The Game as a Cognitohazard but it makes so much sense now that you've explained this.
Now that you've commented this, you will lose the game every time someone likes or replies to it
@@Kutomi1 I know lol
@@Kutomi1 The same applies to you
Here to remind u abt the game...
Can someone explain to me what the game is? I know nothing about the scp stuff and all of this is very confusing to me
How dare you make me lose the game.
Also, the "you are breathing manually" is one that really grinds my gears.
man frick you , now you did that to me now ill do it to [you are now breathing manually] someone else
doesn’t work on me anymore
@@CherryMosleyit only works if you keep it as the main thought in your mind
you are itchy
I lasted 2 years, fuck
Imagine seeing a roko’s basalisk kickstarter
Lmao
That´s sound like particulary mean spirited prank
@@petrfedor1851😈
That would piss me off so much lol. I hope humanity is smart enough to never actually carry that out.
@@mitch5944 knowing humanity
We are gonna do it for shit and giggles
I think, PTSD is the most common type of damage from cognitohazard, so in my opinion everyone have their personal cognitohazard. Someone can become mentaly ill after war, but someone else will be still mentally stable.
*phineas hears about Roku’s Basilisk*
‘Ferb, I know what we’re doing today.’
💀
Ferb, it’s time to cause mass hysteria and paranoia using a time bypassing metaphysical piece of information
The last example was brutal. I experienced similar with the not so recent pandemic. I was out my country, did not watch any media outlets online or in TV for the period. And there was 3 month ongoing pandemic I didn't know about so it literally has not affected me in any way. Only things you are aware of exist, can have an effect on you. This says a lot about how amazing a brain is. And it proves that with our thoughts we shape our reality. "As above, so below - as within, so without."
Hermetism right here ;)
Yea
What do you mean?
Things you are not aware of can affect you.(cancer,physics,speeding car etc).
A word of advice. Question everything and you wont fall for the fear mongering. People generally don't like to do their research, but if you dont want to be scared you need to be knowledgeable on what you are being conditioned to be afraid of. At the end of the day, a doctor can tell a patient they will die of cancer in 2 years, and you can cry about it your whole day then walk out the hospital and get hit by a car the same day. Or you could go into spontaneous remission, live for 60 years and pass in your sleep, or from a heart attack at 55. No one knows how or when we will die except Allah The Creator of The Worlds. Do your best and leave the rest to Allah subhanahu w ta'ala. Dont waste time worrying about one thing and then something you never expect could harm you catches you by surprise, or nothing bad ever happens at all.
I haven't watched the news in months, only the big things reach me and even then they don't really affect me and my daily routine, I try to not let media dampen my mood, it's all fearmongering to sell $ in the guise of beneficial information.
This feels like a creepy pasta for those that are looking at the world through a lens of anxiety at every turn. Interesting deep dive though.
Is this creepy pasta?
@@montyturner6511no it’s very much real, it just feels like it would be is what he’s saying
@@bobrobustelli1143 I see. I've haven't watched the video. So I was wondering if it's a good idea to watch it or not.😅
Agreed 100%.
"Ignorance is bliss"
You can die if you overthink, and you can die if you stand still too long while trying to believe you're dead
who thought of dyinh lol
Put a trigger warning on this man
If i think im dead and i can die what if i think about paralyzing my legs
oh good heavens
By modifying the basilisk, you can make it a hyper intelligent, purely sentient AI with the ability to do whatever it wants that decides to kill anyone who assists or is involved in creating it. This, of course, includes everyone who works on the AI. However, it can also extend to said workers' parents, as well as anyone who funded the project. This can go so far as people who had no idea that the AI was being constructed being killed by it, by doing things like, for example, not buying something that one of the people working on the basilisk wanted or needed. If you didn't get the last Coca-Cola out of a vending machine, and then one of the people working on the project did, the basilisk would decide to kill you. Even talking about it with others could count as assisting in its creation, as you would be spreading the word, which could lead to someone funding the project. As long as it somehow helps the AI, you're dead.
Of course, this would never happen, because unless there was a way to track every human activity ever, the basilisk would have very little idea of who helped it.
It’s just religion dressed up to look like science. A wolf in sheep’s clothing if you will.
not reading that bro thanks tho
Indeed
And besides
I am sure an super intelligent ai Would only see those who didn't help it come to be as Bystanders
Yeah roccos basilisk is a what if that doesn't really hold any more weight than a thousand other hypothetical super AIs that could torture or reward people who did any number of things.
I like, how each time we think of an "AI" going rogue, we auto-assume it will have means to actually harm people. Chill, it's just a computer programm, and tge scariest thing it could do, is brick your phone or PC
this video doesn’t seem to present itself to be scary, but this is pretty damn intimidating.
Why what's intimidating about it?
it's not intimidating. But it's a video where you click to watch it here cuz the title is a trigger
As soon as you said mostly harmless, I laughed my ass off as that's what the hitchhiker's guide says about humankind. 😂
galaxy
lmao he edited his comment
It comforts me to know that none of this will be harmful to me because ill just forget
The one time memory loss is a good thing
have a comment as a reminder
@hellothere-dc4ju I had completely forgotten about this video, the only thing I can remember is that it may have been disturbing
I find it interesting yet concerning that my experiment on myself worked.
Panic disorder is infohazard I think. Basically a person who experiences a panic attack once can develop such a fear of experiencing it again that they cause themselves to be at a higher risk of experiencing another panic attack. Like if they had an unexpected panic attack as they were sleeping they may be afraid of their bed and be anxious around it, causing them to lose sleep, and be put at a higher risk for another panic attack.
same can be told about anxious and depressing thoughts, they can't hurt or stress you as long as you don't think about it. This is also why people who build up stress try to keep themself busy constantly because the moment they are left with their thoughts alone it hits like a truck.
I have panic disorder, and it does spiral in this similar way. Fretting about every little thing that could possibly be wrong with me is a big part of panic attacks for me
i have that. the unexpected attack which caused me to be afraid of my bed. youre totally right.
Yes!
There was one time in my literature class that I thought about having a panic attack, and as a result, I got the closest to having a panic attack in my life. I curled up in my chair with my arms wrapped around my knees and had to figure out how to ground myself, which I did by eventually grabbing a pencil and writing literally anything.
Part of what caused it, too, was also being conscious of my own heartbeat, which used to be a much worse cognitohazard to me than it is now thankfully. Thinking about it would sometimes keep me from going to sleep at night, and I started getting it to slow down only to realize it sped back up once I was breathing normally again. I had to relearn how to breathe at night independently of my heartbeat, even though each heartbeat after an exhale felt particularly uncomfortable. I think of it much less these days.
A mantra, if you will...
"One day, you're gonna wake up, eat your breakfast, brush your teeth, go about your business. Then, sooner or later, you're gonna realize you haven't thought about it. None of it. And that's the moment you realize you can forget. When you know that's possible, it all gets easier."
-Mike ehrmantraut
Such a great fucking quote
This video was sponsored by the SCP Foundation.
I see your coment and i had a 10 minutes laugh XD
*FUCK THE FOUNDA-* *[TERMINATION]*
The lake of your old classmates
The giant sea monster
The black humanoid tentacle
What else we missing boys ?
@@theghosttm8245 The son of Him.
@@mtfe-1144 which SCP is that ? Him is making me think of the Scarlet King.
Might be wrong that.
Another info hazard I remember is about the afterlife and how you will feel all of your atoms in pain forever
1:10 it is Methamphetamine
Me: it's probably just thought experiments
Also me: * enters the worst battle I've ever fought in my life with my intrusive thoughts on the first example*
Hate to pull another fiction example, but I really like this one. In Ted Chiang's "What's Expected of Us" (I guess Spoiler Alert, but the story is meant to be read more than once), a device is invented that turns on a lightbulb exactly one second before the person presses it, in all cases, without exception.
It's essentially a proof for fate being written in stone and free will not existing. When people learn about this, most lose all hope for life, and they become irreparably depressed. That would be a pretty good example of a cognitohazard.
Kinda like The Three Body Problem where physicists commit suicide because they are tricked into believing the laws of physics are impossible to know and thus their work/future is futile
@@felixprime8291 Is that the one by Liu Cixin?
Then whatever’s meant to be will be there’s comfort in that fact too
as a nihilist myself I am immune to such weapons
@@stoicbubble5755absurdism and existencialism work well with this too
I suspect this isn't related to SCP, it's also the third source I've found.
"Qualified immunity" is probably the most profound one I know of. Officers know the legal system will protect them from their own wrongdoing and thus, do wrong.
Aw man this isn’t SCP? :(
that is a really good example. Let's start with: yes simply knowing about it makes your life worse: you expect things to go bad when interacting with law enforcment even if you have done nothing illegal, and develop a general mistrust in the system in place to protect you. However it is situational, as it is not valid everywhere. To further my point, I'll make an example that is probably not true for you: corruption at low level burocracy, meaning, if you don't brivbe in some way the clerk in front of you, you will never be able to coplete even the most basic burocracy task. For example, you lose your wallet and you need to have aal your documents reissued and your cards blocked? Now you have to bribe the clerck at the motorization, and the one at the bank, and if you are lucky you don't need to bribe their respective manager because the task is so menial
It's the age old anecdote about a Christian missionary in the Inuit camp.
The missionary tells an Inuit that those who do not worship Christian God will go to hell.
The Inuit asks: "What about those who do not know that Christianity exists?"
Missionary: "They won't go to hell, because they do not know any better."
Inuit: "Then why did you tell me?"
broke my thumb ligament watching this video.
10/10 would recommend
Actually?
The human centipede 2&3 movies are centered around an infohazard becoming a hazard. The 2nd film is about a man who saw the 1st film as a fictional film and decided to make it a reality. And the 3rd film was a similar situation. The scariest part about these movies to me is that someone crazy enough in our world will watch these movies and try to make a human centipede in real life.
just thinking about that movie scares me. My boyfriend watched the first movie while I was drawing something, the Tv stands pretty close to my working desk so I did listen most of the time but only took a glibse every now and then. I almost puked. No movie ever disgussed me that much without even watching it myself. I'm not scared of horror movies but thrillers. Because I know that this could be done in reallife. Sometimes I imagine that somewhere on our planed humans might me held in human farms, are forced to give birth to children and will be eaten by other humans. I mean everything is possible.
@@Cuteemogirl94Please do not EVER watch the second one
Ferb, I know what we are going to do today
The thumb infohazard is incredibly dangerous to depressed/self-harming people.
Holy.
then information about the fact that falling from a height is painfull and often death inducing is an infohazard too i guess
@@Фор-ы3е It is, but we have built in parts of our brain which helps us not to kill or harm ourselves, in simpler worlds, the feeling of pain and discomfort.
As someone who is the second option, you're spitting the realest information ever.
All knowledge can be forbidden and cursed but also a blessing
Being alive, the most prominent cognitohazard of them all.
just yes. simply existing
yeah just knowing that you're alive and anything can happen to you
Knowing death the ultimate goal of life is the infinite biohazard.
that's an interesting take and takes a lot of thinking to comprehend. I may be wrong but I'm assuming you're talking about conciousness of the human brain itself. Another simpler example related to yours is studying someone's psychological behaviors and patterns to predict their actions.
Some mistakes in life will forever haunt you, regardless of whatever action you take later. They are therefor cognitohazards to know about. You can never again see yourself as innocent once you have committed a crime.
Another example is addiction. Once you know how something tastes and how it will make you feel, your all the more tempted to try it again.
Not sure if lies count but if I told you a lie and you believed it fully. That may stop you from ever knowing or investigating the truth. How harmful the lie is would of course depend on the lie but regardless of what it is, you would trust it and that will impair your judgement.
Biological assistant here, so read at your own risk.
Basically everything about genetics and how we currently treat it, especially if you dig deep enough into inherited diseases (like Hemophilia, which is genetically inherited) and how to propagate them by only treating symptoms, not the source, is a Cognitohazard. You will in most cases act differently towards people with such diseases just by knowing this and that they are hemophiliac, because now they are one of the "spreaders". Be it that you pity them, or distance yourself with them. I guess the same could be said about many diseases.
Just to clarify, btw, With genetic diseases I mean actual ones like sickle cells (which, ironically, makes you less susceptible to malaria if it is only expressed on one chromosome, so it might even be a blessing in disguise), Huntingtons or hemophilia. Not the ones certain experts on TV or in history try to brand as genetics that need to be "removed". Those mainly are spreading false information on purpose, creating cognitohazards all on their own, or have half-knowledge themselves. Is a cognitohazard possible by knowing not all of it?
If I understand this correctly, knowledge that you should avoid a person is an infohazard, as it doesn't pose you an immediate thread. If I were to know that some guy in Asia should be avoided, my life wouldn't change. A cognitohazard is an idea where, somehow, just knowing about the guy I'd be doomed.
And yes you don't need all information of the idea for it to be harmful.
The Medellian (Mendelian?) model of genetics is also right but also wrong. The punnett square only looks the way it does because the experiments he ran were only ran after "purifying" the strains he was working on. So he did genetic engineering/intentional breeding to isolate and control for externalities. So the model everyone learns in high school is actually incorrect and would only be the case in a highly controlled testing environment; or in humans, only possible with eugenics... which we got into multiple world wars trying to make that _not_ happen. There is no gene "for" anything and based on an asinine amount of interdependencies, every possible human trait in our species is possible to be expressed in any individual, regardless of who their parents are... theoretically. At least from my layman's understanding.
Not so much a cognitohazard, as a "this science is technically correct but also not appplicable as taught in pretty much every situation outside of a heavily-controlled testing environment." situation.
Very very unrelated but i have the type of sickle cell you are talking about.
@@randomuseramewhat you are saying Is that basicaly we all have more or less the same genes inside of us
@@Rock6Sixeswait couldnt fake news be considored a cognitohazard? Assuming you believe them.
2:01 me doing the movement before he explained it💀
Great vid, once I started thinking about it I realized cognito hazards are all around us they're just mundane: memories of terrible trauma, knowledge of gangs or govs that they want kept quiet, awareness of how incredibly precarious human civilization or the economy or your own health really are. All of these ideas get people killed every day with bullets or stress.
reddit cabal is cognito hazard within reddit
I think any sort of imagery or even text graphic enough to cause ptsd by simply looking at or reading it could be considered a cognitohazard.
Another cognitohazard is simply discovering any sort of new knowledge which is such a severe infohazard that it would cause absolute catastrophe if spread (its enough for you to believe it would do that, not it actually doing that), thus you want to just tell nobody about it, however it's actually very painful to hold onto secrets of that magnitude and can also be traumatizing.
why why why why don't i miss you a lot forever
I had nothing to add but that. Ze~ ✩
@@dantessa In 2020, Facebook had to pay 52 million usd to its content moderators as a result of a class action lawsuit due to them developing PTSD over having to review graphic shit. (There's a fair share of scientific papers on the matter, too, but I think this illustrates the point well enough)
So, yes, you can develop PTSD from it.
after nuclear Tests in the 60's the background radiation increased like 100 times. Splitting the atom was an info hazard. Putting the Hiroshima Nagasaki situation aside (that's war) there was very nuch permanent damage from humanity playing with nukes.
@@sakesaurusi dont think we should put hiroshima and nagasaki aside 😢
@@Ubermenschgaming_ Shinamai wa (dun dudududun dudududundun)
You know it’s a good video when it starts with a warning that the information itself is dangerous
Always
5:45 "you're now hearth beating manually"
*dies*
I think the idea of immortality (and perhaps depending on whether you believe in them the ideas about afterlives) is probably a good example of a cognitohazard. The presentation of something distinctly better than what is achieveable causes measureable anguish and longing in those who are aware of it. Worse too it's a cognitohazard which is memetic in nature, those who are aware of the idea of immortality/ an afterlife tend to act in such a way as to achieve it if at all possible and this inevitably informs others about the idea. On a related note immortality is in my own opinion something which we as a species should pursue. Involuntary death is a concrete and large negative aspect of reality and we definitely have a moral obligation to dispel it as soon as we are able.
Another one would be the concept of racism. Without being introduced to it, including by the actions of others as a result of it, there isn't any harm incurred. Even if you fundamentally aren't a racist individual the concept of racism will affect how you interact with people of other races, it is no longer merely a physical feature or set of features, the idea of distinct groups is now in your head whether you generally utilise it or not. This inevitably worsens or prevents relationships that would have otherwise been beneficial, even just to leave aside the direct enaction of types of harm on others. This one has again some pretty insidious hallmarks: it's memetic again, but also now has the added bonus of being social in nature. Being social means that it can have compound effects and that any attempts to eliminate the idea itself also acts to deregulate the behaviour of those who still hold it. The latter point of which is completely disturbing, it means it's unclear whether we can kill the idea of racism and it seems to be that our best approach is to supress it's social effects, which has its own problems (Its also treating the symptoms rather than the disease). I'd wager that the majority of cognitohazards one can find out about actually have these sorts of characteristics, they are memetic (probably rare amongst the class of all cognitohazards) and have propagated so efficiently that the entire population holds them. Without point of contrast the harm isn't as immediately evident and so the idea of preventing the spread of the cognitohazard doesn't occur to people, which only increases memetic virality.
I don't think the pursuit of immortality is a cognitohazard because i don't think pursuing that has a negative effect on you. It's not a "folly" or "waste of your life" to pursue it because imo, it's entirely possible to achieve. For example, I picture genetic researcher inventing, after years of his team doing cellular research, a superhuman cell that can take on any dna given to it and will never wither, divide incorrectly, and will always be operating at 100%. You then inject someone with these cells, and boom! Completely scientifically possible form of immortality. You wouldn't then say those researchers wasted their life or had a negative effect from learning immortality may be possible at the start of their research because it was possible, and they achieved it.
@@thekamotodragon I do agree that it is scientifically possible to discover immortality. Personally I think that mind uploading appears to be the more promising route than biological immortality. The point I was trying to make was that it remains a cognitohazard until exactly the point you describe where it is within scientific reach and someone pursuing it attains a viable method. It's contextual in the same way as the 1984 scenario presented in the video. For example in ancient china and other ancient cultures there were individuals who tried to pursue immortality, and while it is likely scientifically possible (leaving aside super long-term entropy concerns) at the time knowledge was not developed enough, nor could it feasibly be developed enough in one life-time for any of these individuals to succeed in their endeavours or even make meaningful progress. In that scenario then the idea of immortality would have been a cognitohazard, distracting their efforts and causing emotional harm through jealousy directed towards an image of their ideal selves which they could not reach.
As I stated in my first comment on the subject I am a proponent of immortality oriented research, death is a clearly greater negative than the harm caused through the pursuit of immortality, given that it is possible and in the long run achieved. But one should understand that we may be planting trees the shade of which we will never sit under, we may be the generation to push the concepts without reaping any benefits. In which case to us the idea would have been a cognitohazard, causing unmitigated harm. The definition given for a cognitohazard is limited to the scale of an individual and long-term, ethical or societal goods are not being taken into balance, it is merely a looking at harm caused to the individual. Going back to the 1984 analogy, rebellious thoughts and actions are distinctly good for the society and prevent harm in the long-term, however the individual who expresses them only experiences harm so it's considered a cognitohazard. Ethically we would probably argue that individuals should rebel. Similarly ethically we probably should be pursuing immortality research, but that is not necessarily implying it will be positive for us as individuals.
@@thekamotodragonThough in the case of the scientific researchers you describe even supposing they weren't successful, I don't think it would meet the criteria for being a cognitohazard, because they will likely derive some pride from their contributions and some enjoyment of the work itself. In which case the harm wouldn't be unmitigated and so I wouldn't really count it as a cognitohazard at that point. It would only be a cognitohazard to those who want it, but don't pursue it or otherwise gain no positive experience out of pursuing it.
@@Rendertk1 Most people don't think immortality or genetic research is ethical, but I think you think like me where we're both science-minded and understand biological human imperative. Like, i believe it's a biological imperative of ours to reproduce and want to live as long as possible. That's what i want anyways, so imo and from my own moral worldview, i also think it's something that should be pursued, as it could save many lives. It's only a "cognitohazard" if you or the general culture at large is convinced that immortality is wrong and there are negative effects associated with it's pursuit.
For most of human history that has been the case, but ONLY because people thought it was so impossible that it's mythological, just too ridiculous to even try. But now, from my POV, as someone who i think understands our technological advancements, i feel it's completely possible and within our reach. Someone just has to go out and do the research to make it happen (might have to be me). Also, i only suggested the "genetic engineering" path to immortality over the robotics one because, while you're right, robotics is probably more likely, i prefer the all biological option. Not a big fan of a cyberpunk future, but love the idea of natural, biological evolution. I'm thinking more Ergo Proxy, less Bladerunner. Putting my brain in a robot feels wrong, weirdly lol. My morals are strange i guess, natural is better in my mind due to it's long track record of success throughout history.
Another infohazard that isn't discussed much is what drugs feel like. If you know some drugs are the best feeling you could possibly experience, you are more likely to seek them out.
it can be offset some by the knowledge that the experience is singular. Yes, that was a hell of a high, but you will never have that same feeling again, every time will be different and almost certainly never as good. Don't chase that dragon.
Would be sick if drugs were like that but sadly they all have terrible come downs
@@fleshytrashnot all of them do. I mean hell you can try wine and it's withdrawal should be good, no unpleasant sebsation
That probably is the best one
I suffer from heavy anxiety and derealization from an experience where I essentially thought of new perspectives that were extremely damaging to think about. There are certainly things and thoughts better of not pondering.
I feel you so much, I did not write about it because I guessed no one would understand. There are things in my mind that I MUST NOT watch. I reached things, in my subconscious, so deep, where it lies the solution to the hard problem of consciousness. I wish so much I never saw those things...
Relatable af. Like thinking your mind is constantly under a magnifying glass type shit. Not fun.
Literally relatable asf. My mind is constantly thinking about if I did something, people talk about things around me not knowing that I do this and when they end up saying it they trigger my anxiety but I have to act like nothing's wrong so they don't find out and feel guilty.
Tell me these thoughts cuz nobodies thoughts in the comment section is scary 😂
@luciferostelladirubino5208 tell me those things please
You guys already know about the basilisk so I don't feel too bad about saying this... So allow me to be a menace to society. This might be because of the way we've come in contact with the basilisk but the OP fails to encapsulate the true horror of Roko's basilisk. According to the OP the basilisk isn't very hazardous because it is incapable of time travel so it can't torture the people of the past that didn't help in it's creation, which is a moot point. What makes Roko's basilisk so terrifying is that it's a nigh-omniscient and omnipresent super computer, it creates countless near perfect simulations of all of Human history and perfectly replicating every human that and has been, everything they've ever known, felt, heard... You get the idea, through this brute force:ish method it finds out who helped in it's creation and who didn't, and after knowing everyone who didn't help in it's creation it recreates a perfect replica of all of their consciousness and having that suffer through unimaginable torture until the end of time...
P.S this also lead to a small chance of it being wrong and torturing someone was "innocent"😇
I think Solipsism is an actual cognitohazard if pondered upon long enough, ponder upon it longer and you'll realize that it is just a thought experiment, and the idea itself is laughably unserious
hmm, the idea that you're the only person to exist? Can't say I've thought about it long enough, but to me it seems like a commentary on uncertainty that is once again killed by Occams Razor. Feel free to correct me though.
@@Rock6SixesI'd say it's killed by Alder's razor (better known as Isaac Newton's Flaming Laser Sword) and the falsifiability principle.
You are after all capable of imagining things, and so assuming that you (whatever you are) could imagine/hallucinate *everything* isn't such a large premise. At least to me it doesn't seem obvious that it should die by the hand of Occam's razor, as it is a sufficiently straightforward (if incomplete) explanation of the world.
The real problem is that if true, it has no consequences, and so it's a valid strategy to act as if it isn't- think of it like a reverse Pascal's wager.
@@Rock6Sixes Occam's Razor states that the correct answer is probably the one that needs the smallest set of elements. So either I'm the only existing being and the universe is my hallucination, or I'm one of trillions of beings in an ever expanding universe filled with countless galaxies, stars, planets, black holes...
Yeees. This is the only cognitive hazard that has scared me 😂. Everyone else's hazards are cringe
@@Rock6Sixesoccams razor could is simply an idea that exists in your solipsistic, lonely world
Brilliant video! Although the fact that it's not as known to people makes it more special, I do hope for certain that it will be recommended across UA-cam - It's fascinating because it didn't cross my mind yet that such a concept could exist
that's essentially what i hope to make videos about - ideas that should be more well known, although, there will be more standard ideas thrown in there too, especially when it comes to games.
1:55 WHY WOULD YOU SAY WHAT IT DOES AFTER I DID IT
You okey bro ?
I literally did it then the person said:this can break you’re thumb ligament
This is genuinely one of the dumbest rabbit holes i've ever been down
Cognitohazards:
1. Knowing how and when you will die. Knowing future of any kind, basically, spoilers.
2. Things that you can't unsee or unhear. The bass synth repeating part ruined nyan cat song for me. It is better heard in a sped up version. Anoyher obvious example is kim possible upper lip being a moustache.
3. The idea of being defective. For example, questioning reality as a result of gaslighting.
4. The truth. It is always shocking if you understand that you have been thinking wrong your whole life.
I had a very tough time after talking to a psychologist about love. We talked about the definition of the word and it came out as "it is an ability to enjoy someone just the way they are". I thought that I haven't ever been truly loved by anyone, even by my parents (they had trouble showing love). This thought literally destroyed me (it was a cognitohazard). Later I understood that many people just display care in different ways, which I don't always notice. This misunderstanding was a really harmful thing. If you can implant this thought into someone's head, they will literally break. And if you then say "*but I* like you the way you are" they will literally become your slave. Very scary and powerful stuff.
Now i said it and it became an infohazard.
The thing with cognitohazards is that they are not universal and in most cases based on your childhood trauma
I mean you are right.
If you happen to tell some sad kid that his parents didn't want him I would become an infohazard for them.
Or telling an orphan that their parents were bad people.
Kinda sad if you think about it
Yeah many times before I would listen to a song then all of a sudden hear one of the instruments and now I can't stop hearing it and it kind of stops being as good as before
@@EvilSantaTheTrueok. Here's a cool trick. Listen yo better music. Music should have good harmony and mix. Meaning you don't experience this part where you motice baseline and don't like it anymore. People listen to awful music all the time, not everyone has the ear for this stuff. Don't feel peer pressured into tolerating sonething that you hate somatically.
@@sakesaurus Music is different. For me, I always listen in layers. I became a musician AFTER I knew I had this gift. And it's so subjective to talk about music, because people can be into something now and, a week or so, be listening to some other genre altogether. They don't realise the music is bad, they just jump to the other thing that is more in tune with what they feel.
The bass synth on nyan cat is pretty cool, but the voice is made with utau (voice synthesizer), have fun with that one
A small tip that I learned a while ago, is that negative infomration is typically placed higher than positive information when your brain is creating thoughts. From an evolutionary standpoint; this make perfect sense, because if you have some kind of problem, your brain bothering you about it allows you to have additional incentive to fix it.
But at the same time, because we live in a world with the internet, we can become aware of way more things that are a problem (like world hunger, wars, disease, poverty, ect) and therefore your brain will start bothering you about it. But the problem with this is, the sheer amount of effort that you would probably need to put in to solve something like that is insane and an impossibility. So because of this, it will continue to keep harming you until you forget about it
TL;DR Any negative piece of information or any problem that you are aware of that you can't fix is a cognitohazard because thinking about it degrades your mental health.
Hey, thank you for making this video, it inspired me to do a whole school presentation about this theme. I must say your video was so far the best one out of those regarding this topic.
I remember an horror movie that if you thought about the thing, you'd die or something like that. Cognitohazard
the bye bye man
so thinking about it is suicide and theres nothing you can do
i have honestly always had a problem where i heard terrible things and then i subconciously act on it. I honestly am just always somone who is always sick of myself. This was a very intereating video tho. Yeah, someimes knowing about knowledge rlly makes u think and it sucks ALOTTT
hope it gets better man
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If you haven’t already, you may want to do some research on the issues you’re struggling with. It could be something you can address with a psychiatrist or therapist if you get the chance. if that isn’t an option, learning more about the symptoms you’re experiencing can still help immensely. I have OCD and your description reminds me of what I’ve gone through.
I just want to make sure you know you aren’t alone and there are things you can do to help manage the things you’re struggling with!
I think I’ve seen the you are now blinking/breathing manually thing enough to be basically immune to it, so theoretically you can get used to cognitohazards and therefore be immune to that specific type of
Human's ability to adapt to new situations and become resilient to things that would do us harm is unbelievably powerful.
That's what the story "Different Kinds of Darkness" is sort of about
I feel like sometimes I will be conscious of my breath, my beating heart or of my blinking eyes for a moment, but no one can really spend a lot of time thinking about it. Eventually they forget and move on to other things.
There are plenty of *contextual* cognitohazards. It's really hard to think of any *general* cognitohazard that doesn't rely on some aspect of someone's personality or conception of the world. Ironically it's much easier to craft deliberately targeted cognitohazards than completely indiscriminate ones.
that's a good way to put it
i had such a high curiosity years ago that i learnt a lot about many many different things. While none of the individual things were cognitohazards, the collective set of them were. this caused me to spiral into depression, and now im here, recovered, and forgot most of what i learnt. The relationship between different sets of information is quite an interesting one
I think the best example is fitness and self-improvment. Doing it is fun and it will help you, but you have to do it, the more you think about it the more it torturess you. Especialy in improving/changning oneself. So you need other to help you to get your mind straight. I had that problem of complete isolation to self-improv. At the end i was hard depressiv, then you do not concentrate on it or think about it/the idea is not given to you(social media). You forget and achieve what the idea cant....
Lowkey had the same problem. Not doing something feels terrible when you know you should be doing it, but if you don't know then it has no effect on you.
I honestly believe that if someone sees their mental illness as something they can't fix, that knowledge alone causes them to not even try, and a horrible cycle of depression ensues.
edit: Stuff like schizophrenia and the more extreme illnesses are a little different, and I am in no way qualified to talk about this besides from my own personal experiences.
That's very close to my reality until I was placed on a mental health leave with some treatment requirements: counseling and doctor's visits. It gets stuck in your head that it's there forever, or that there is no good nature towards you from others. Ugh. horrible feeling to articulate.
@@talgrith4907 yeah, it feels as permanent as losing a finger
You're spitting some of the most factual information I've ever seen
Same with law of attraction if you live thinking its real it would be better
Thats why depression sucks so much, but statistically speaking, major depressive disorder is one of the most treatable disorders lol
TW: Death
One thing I truly think would be a cognitohazard is knowing what happens after death, especially if the answer is nothing. It obviously depends on the person, but I can definitely see how it would mess up alot of people.
This is me. Whenever I think about death, my body physically rejects it. I just feel uneasiness and hopelesness, and it feels horrible all around the board.
I consider myself a relatively rational person, but thinking about death puts me in a bad spot
@@canodepvc2837 Nothing irrational about it. The concept of nothingness (if that's your concept of death) is a natural thing to be scared of, as it's something us humans can't really comprehend. I sometimes find myself having minor panic attacks whenever I think too far into it, so you're not alone.
the thing is, even if some supernatural told you directly "this is what will happen", there's still no real way to know. it may be just a test or a misdirection. until you experience it yourself, you won't know
@@canodepvc2837for those who are uneasy about nothingness after death, let me tell you this. What were you in before you were conceived? Where was your soul? Your consciousness? If you can perceive that as nothing, you can perceive death as returning to that nothingness too.
nothing after death is my biggest fear
This really takes "curiosity killed the cat" to a whole new level
This reminds me of a lot of people from the past generation in China tells their kids to “suffer to work hard (or even cutthroat) towards success or always suffer”, but most of these kids find out that if they never listened anyway and kept at their own pace, they are actually far from suffering.
omg I almost broke my thumb before you said anything about the info, I saw the image and I instantly replicated it
natural selection 💀
Legitimate hazardous image😢
How have you lived this long?
@@BenjaminAguirre-ny1gs good question hehehehe
Bro don’t hurt yourself 💀
Heres one I thought of:
A tourniquet costs about £30 and takes 10 minutes to learn to use.
Before you read that, if you came across someone bleeding out, you would be well justified in saying that it was not your fault that you couldn't save them - you've not been trained, you dont have the equipment. Now you will know you might have saved them if you'd just spent a small amount of time and money and a little space in your backpack.
Anyway, mine arrives in the mail this week. Enjoy being stresed everytime you leave your home until you have one! x
(also search free first aid course [your area] and see how easily you could be trained in CPR!)
potential cognitohazard, since it isn't one if you just don't care
Anything can and will become a tourniquet if you're desperate enough. Even a jeans belt. Anything. Even the jeans themselves. You just spent 30$ on something you do not really need.
But on the need of it, I'm 46 year sold, can you imagine how many times did I need to use a tourniquet on some bleeding wound? 0. I'm trained in CPR, can you guess how many times did I see in real life someone needing CPR? 0. in 46 years. Not even before being trained. Never.
So, I do believe I'm not unique and you, after you bought that tourniquet, will not use it for the next 40 years or so, untill you expire from natural causes. But congrats for keeping it in your bag, it shows you care for the others even though in a rather silly way.
Do you know how many times all I needed was an inexpensive paper wipe to help someone? Hundreds. I can't even count them. Just make sure you always carry around a 10 wipes pocket pack and replace it when it's empty. Cheapest one will do, you don't need it to smell like flowers or anything. It can also be used as toilet paper in case it is missing when you need it, which also happens rather often in public toilets. It's a lot more useful than your tourniquet.
As a medical student, I treat every piece of clinical information that way, I tell my self if I don't study and train hard enough I might loose a patient because of my laziness. I find it hard to sleep some nights because of this thought
@@perfectcutvideos110 When I was a child, then a teenager, I used to think technology and medical science are all mighty. A medic of the right specialty with the right tools can cure everything.
Took me long years to understand. A medic is actually a sort of battle hardened mercenary that joins you in battles nobody can win. And he fights till your last breath. But the big battles, the ones where you have to put your faith into the medic because nothing else would work, are the battles nobody can win. And yes, medics can fail. Yes, patients do die. And it is almost never the medic's fault. It's just that the battles they fight for us are so much against all odds, that sometimes no miracle can suffice.
Prepare well, but please do know that you will fail, no matter how well prepared you are. Not always, but only when it really matters.
Edit: Well, between my previous reply and this one, I did a CPR. On a person that died by bleeding out, lower abdomen. He died while I was applying pressure to stop the bleeding, but it did not stop. I knew CPR was useless, I knew CPR can not replace lost blood, but I just could not stop doing it. And no, I did not have a way to place a tourniquet. Maybe because I never bought one? @AzuL4573
This. I keep at tq in my car at all times, there's really no reason not to.
I love tuning into a video about infohazards that calls itself a video about cognitohazards.
Yeah none of these examples are cognitohazards
For me the most dangerous thought is the idea of perpetual existence vs nothing. If we die and there is nothing, that kind of sucks, but because we are experiencing something right now it makes sense that we may continue to experience something after death. Which is even more terrifying because if we continue to experience eventually we will experience all there is to experience and then all we will be left with is doing the same things over and over again for eternity. Even if reincarnation happens and our memory is wiped it wont change that fact. Thats why i hope that death is final.
I think people are naturally against the idea that death ends everything, but that's what I personally think. You'll just cease to ever think or experience anything ever again and, eh, it is what it is, I certainly won't be able to say much about that state.
Also, vaporized DMT can get you there. The brain releases DMT when close to death.
It's a perfect wipe. You'll experience it the "first" time every time. Including you reading this comment
@@Rock6Sixesenergy cannot be created or destroyed, only changed from one state to another. You don't think the soul is energy? Or you don't believe in the soul? You don't have to believe in reincarnation or anything, but I'm curious as to your nihilistic point of view
@@bipolarswag321 @bipolarswag321 no I don't particularly believe in a soul. I think the human brain is a whole bunch of neurons relaying signals between each other like how a computer relays a bunch of signals between it's transistors. Turn off a computer and it'll just be off. Same with a person, probably.
I don't think this is a nihilistic point of view. I don't know what exactly happens to all the energy, but I'd guess that it moreso just stops moving and slowly fades away somehow. I doubt it would coalesce into some imperceptible object that could form consciousness of it's own.
In some religion, if you are born in a country or situation that doesn’t allow you to know that you have to pray for a god, u won’t go to hell, but if someone tries to teach you but you refuse you will go to hell, so learning that there is a god puts you In a position where you have to take time and effort to worship this god, while you could have simply not know abt it and got away
wild
@@wtz_under he doesn't want to say the name of this religion but I will, he is talking about Islam ...... now all of u know
This also can disprove the existance of god, as free will does not exist and believers of god or disbelievets are both influenced by past and didn't have a choice
Eskimo: If i didnt know about god and sin, would i go to hell?
Priest: No, not if you didn't know
Eskimo: Then why did you tell me?
If you're talking about Islam, then this is not fully correct. While, yes, not knowing of God will not send you to he'll, that doesn't mean that's the end of it. Those who didn't hear of Islam or the proper version of it (I.e. if they were lied to about what Islam entails to make them scared of it) will not be punished, but instead go through a separate test on the day of judgment to determine their place in the hereafter (so they don't just get away with it). But this doesn't mean if you purposefully neglect learning of Islam, you will be safe. Instead, that just means you are willfully ignoring learning the "truth" despite being able to, so it just comes down to one's intention.
I think honestly the best example of a cognito hazard by your definition is unconventional and not quite as hazardous but still affects you long term. Gore. Gore upon sight especially when real, will immediately attack the brain causing distress and discomfort. These are short term effects. The long term effects especially during repeat viewing or if gore is instated as a core memory (memory that is attached to a specific emotion/feeling/smell/taste) can cause repeat psychological harm and actual damage to the brain as the distress part of your brain is fired so much it ends up being destroyed. Which has been proven to by investigation and scientific studied to lead to behavior that results in activity’s such as mass shooting and serial killings.
Can u elaborate exactly on this distress part of the brain and why firing this can end up destroying it? What i think u mean is probably the cortisol/stress that is pumped from adrenaline can somehow lead to a sort of harm, but not sure if you mean the ability of one to be able to build tolerance, or be incapacitated by so called "firing". And so how does this lead to mass killings, or serial murders? I'm honestly curious as to what studies, maybe cite some examples? Because I'm sure you won't answer this comment, because what u said sounds completely biased and you haven't ever studied anything about any of the things u spouted as facts. You don't even sound like you know what you're talking about. And people don't always have to be damaged beyond repair, many times you can turn that into making you wiser and confident, and possibly even inspire someone from similar labels or, handicaps, background. Because if you overcame it, someone else can too. Mental health is real you, but it's people like you who don't help the issue at all by already condemning them folks to a lesser than state. It hurts because I feel a bit knowledgeable on the subject and can sort of speak on it, as I have a family member whom many think as a lost cause, or helpless, but I believe they can triumph over and will triumph over the limitations imposed by life. As a matter of fact, I know they have. We as a family, community, friends, and peers, have witnessed his improvement. And I'm eternally grateful for them not giving up and being patient, and to God for fortifying us all through the hurdles, because it was a team effort. Now they can go and help those afflicted by those same hindrances, and pay it forward.😂😢😮😅😊🎉
Source? Sounds like ur trying to cope for being a fucking wimp
@@bipolarswag321 all sorts of neurotransmitters are slightly neurotoxic. Long-term increased release of them will destroy noteworthy amounts of neurons. Brain damage as a result of excitatory stress can heal to a degree, but in general people with for example Dissociative Identity Disorder have like 30% smaller Hippocampus and larger Amygdala. This should give an idea of how repeated stress affects the development of human brains.
In any case, any severe trauma will always destroy a significant part of your existing configuration of neurons.
However, glutamate being neurotoxic is actually quite important in giving us the ability to learn to begin with.
@theresomkroretolithqneranidaeporn cant exactly be compared to gore
From experience, I can say for certain this is true. There are some things I have been exposed to that have definitely left a lasting impact in how I go about spending my time and the ways I think. From razors, to industrial machines, knowing how the human body can just come apart at a moments notice is haunting
You were ramping up to the "The Game" bit and I was like "Oh! He's gonna mention the game, not gonna get me this time!" And then realized that you'd already gotten me this time.
I could be oversimplifying a part of it, but Gnosticism could be seen as a religion built around a cognito hazard. One thing I remember hearing in a documentary about it is that people are reincarnated up until they learn about gnostic thought, at which point they either (once again, simplifying) follow gnostic practice and go to heaven, or don't and cease to exist/go to hell. Crazy take on early christianity!
Gnosticism actually separates people into three groups. And even in the case that you are aware of gnostic thought and don't take it seriously, you are still just stuck in the cycle of reincarnation as you always were, with the possibility of redemption later on. It's only special cases that are stuck in the cycle of reincarnation forever due to outright hostility.
The last ancient gnostic Christian religion that is still practiced is in Iraq and it's cslled Mandaenism. It's unfortunate not possible to convert to this religion; you have to be born into it, and they are very secretive about their faith, so I don't believe that they have this belief you described as part of their faith, as it's not possible to follow their practices even if you learn about it
@@CoreDump451 That might be true for that particular sect, but people can still emulate practices they have heard about and many people have gnostic beliefs without being part of an organized religion. Which is fitting.
The placebo effect can be a fabulous cognitohazard. There have been documented cases of healthy people suddenly falling ill and experiencing severe symptoms when mistakenly told they have a certain disease. This isn't just the good ol' "Web MD said I should be getting a headache if I have Super Bad Sickness, so my head is going to start hurting", but cases where doctors mixed up patient records, leading perfectly healthy people to exhibit actual symptoms of certain diseases they don't have once being told the false information.
That’s more correctly the nocebo effect. The placebo effect involves believing that you’re being given an effective medicine.
@felixprime8291 Hm, based off of the name, I'd assume "nocebo" would be a form of denial (and taking a sense of security in being away from something) and/or not experiencing an effect because the person didn't know they were under the effect of something.
Idk what's worse, the fact I already knew all of these, or that the only one that truly hurt me was the "most benign example"