Bonus points if it is also from 2018
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Cognitohazards my beloved
I didn't even know this genre had a name
Do you treat the words cognitohazard and infohazard as synonymous or not? And if not, how does one differentiate them?
At least, the way I personally define them,
An infohazard is anything that is dangerous to know. This covers a lot of fantastical cases, but it also covers much more mundane things such as knowing privileged information that someone doesn't want you to share.
A cognitohazard is something that will actively interfere in your functions because you know it. All cognitohazards are infohazards but not all infohazards are cognitohazards. Simply knowing a touchy secret isn't going to eat your mind away from the inside out, but some sort of information-based entity might.