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*The creature’s torso slouches downward, but several more erupt from the ground, carrying legions of the insectoids on their backs*

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Sure, anything helps.

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So imagine, there is an AI in the future that will be made. It’s not made yet, but the idea is that this AI will exist. Once it comes into existence, it is resolved to have anyone tortured forever if they knew about the concept of the AI but never worked to actually bring it into existence. So you’re threatened by knowing about it, and I’ve technically just put you in danger by proposing this to you.

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Rude.
*Laughs*
But even so, it sounds like the threat is that someone’s building an AI to torture people more than it is knowing the information. You could just not build the machine.

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Right, but it’s less about the specific example and more about the idea. I can tell you with certainty that the infohazard elements of the Hidden Elements are very real.

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I was always taught that information should be unlimited and freely available. So the idea that you could be harmed just knowing something doesn’t really sit right with me.

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*Puts my hands up and shrugs*
It’s not by choice, believe me.

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*The creature’s torso slouches downward, but several more erupt from the ground, carrying legions of the insectoids on their backs*

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*A red sigil glows over the dragons head, creating an amplification that maximizes the blood dragons power as it's form becomes superheated. As the air pressure pushed outwards a field of energy forms a cone that halts the pressure momentarily before exploding inwards sending shards of energy into the creature.*

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I get that. I’m just thinking I need to chew on the idea a little bit, since that’s radically different.

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That’s fair. And if I’m honest with you, knowing that they are an infohazard is, in my experience and knowledge of history, an infohazard in itself. Knowing that forbidden knowledge exists makes people want it more, so, uh… Don’t go hunting it down anyway.

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*A green gaseous orb appears from the ether, that descends upon the land covering the region in a cloud of toxic corrosive gas that eats away at flesh and burns through the creatures exoskeleton.*

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*He fires a blast of bloody power, and vaporizes the blood inside the creatures. He makes a face at the insects wave of icor and blood as it boils away*

I hate bugs.

*The dragon hurdles along, snapping everything up that gets too close*

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I’m not interested in getting tortured by the AI, so count me out.

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*The entities fall to the ground, now crumbling under the weight of the swarm and the tunnels drilled by the hand creatures—the planet begins to collapse inward onto the submerged magma*

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The ocean, or..?

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I have a thought experiment to kind of help you grasp it conceptually, if you want. I might not explain it perfectly but I believe I've got it.

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Yeah, it's like a glorified aquarium entrance.
*Makes my way over to the shuttles*

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Metaphorically speaking, of course.
*Chuckles*
Literally, you’re already doomed just like me, unless you get started now.

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The tech stuff.

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What are all of these going to?
*follows*

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*He swings his scythe, sending red blades hurdling into the planet, bloodly magic consuming everything living*

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*Due to the destruction of native plant life, the ground begins crumbling faster than before, shortly leaving nothing but a veritable ocean of magma in its wake*

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Oh, yeah. It’s a nice elevator I guess.

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*Due to the destruction of native plant life, the ground begins crumbling faster than before, shortly leaving nothing but a veritable ocean of magma in its wake*