The concept of 'lethal ideas'—ideas that can harm people or cause psychological damage—initially frightened the speaker because encountering even the meta-idea that lethal ideas exist can open perception to find them everywhere and potentially instantiate harmful frameworks in vulnerable people.
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Unidentified Speaker — When Scientists Go Mad: The Unthinkable Thoughts We Can't T… [-dEHhh9CVHU]Evidence Quote
“I was afraid of doing harm to other people. I worried that maybe I would encounter someone who didn't have the right constitution or wasn't in the right place, and that even that idea would – because the idea itself, the meta-idea, is enough of a seed to then, either instantiate a lethal framework [6:06]”
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