Is that possible to do without also forgetting why it’s dangerous? That seems like it would fuel a pattern of addiction where the person gets addicted, forgets why, then gets addicted again because we wiped their knowledge of the consequences the first time around.

Then again, I suppose if the addiction was in response to a particular stimulus (death of a family member, getting fired, etc) and that stimulus doesn’t happen again, maybe it would make a difference?

It does have a tinge of “those who don’t recall the past are doomed to repeat it”.

After a certain point I think someone can learn enough information to derive almost everything from first principles. But I think it might work temporarily.

There's a movie about this idea called "Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind".

I find it hard I believe that you can surgically censor one chunk of information, and cut off the rest of the information. Especially if it's general physical principles.

I also don't have a nice topological map of how all the world's information is connected to the moment, so I can't back up by opinions.

Though I'm still rooting for the RDF/OWL and Semantic Web folks, they might figure it out.