"Accdentially Misleading": maybe it's better without the footnote

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-And that's why accidentally misleading people should be embarrassing: because the desire to avoid such embarrassment motivates a counterfactual reduction in such incidents of people being misled, notwithstanding that it was an accident and totally unintentional.[^unintentional]
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-[^unintentional]: Some theorists would question whether the presence of motivations that make accidents more likely calls into question [whether they should be analyzed as truly unintentional](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/sXHQ9R5tahiaXEZhR/algorithmic-intent-a-hansonian-generalized-anti-zombie), but discussion of such a controversial and speculative view is beyond the scope of this post.
+And that's why accidentally misleading people should be embarrassing: because the desire to avoid such embarrassment motivates a counterfactual reduction in such incidents of people being misled, notwithstanding that it was an accident and totally unintentional.