I wasn’t thinking of just the use case you mentioned, I was thinking of the more general use case which might be more useful to analyse.
*Someone discovers an infohazard or what they think might be an infohazard. Either while thinking about this contest, or at any other time
*They are unsure about what the next step they should take is.
*They wish there were a highly trustworthy and competent org / mechanism / panel / etc that they could delegate this huge burden of responsbility to. (And they also wish they could communicate safely with these people, and have means to establish a lot of trust, etc.)
Whether publishing publicly is or isn’t the right step, or publishing to this specific contest would the be the right move, would be a subset of “figuring out the next step” in general. And figuring out the next step in general is the framing that someone who has a potential infohazard on their hands would (and should) be using to think about it.
Even if 95% of people come up potential infohazards that turn out to be inconsequential, I feel like it might still make sense for them to use the same process that the 5% of people with really important infohazards also use. (Because the assumption is that people who have the infohazards aren’t ideal judges of which is which.)
Thank you for the response!
I wasn’t thinking of just the use case you mentioned, I was thinking of the more general use case which might be more useful to analyse.
Whether publishing publicly is or isn’t the right step, or publishing to this specific contest would the be the right move, would be a subset of “figuring out the next step” in general. And figuring out the next step in general is the framing that someone who has a potential infohazard on their hands would (and should) be using to think about it.
Even if 95% of people come up potential infohazards that turn out to be inconsequential, I feel like it might still make sense for them to use the same process that the 5% of people with really important infohazards also use. (Because the assumption is that people who have the infohazards aren’t ideal judges of which is which.)
I would be keen on your thoughts!