From: Zack M. Davis Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2026 02:02:36 +0000 (-0700) Subject: "Accdentially Misleading": maybe it's better without the footnote X-Git-Url: https://zackmdavis.net/blog/source?a=commitdiff_plain;h=d5ea5762f960a6d18d85bb8bad41a4d8eb9c2e59;p=An_Algorithmic_Lucidity.git "Accdentially Misleading": maybe it's better without the footnote --- diff --git a/content/drafts/accidentally_misleading_people_should_be_embarrassing.md b/content/drafts/accidentally_misleading_people_should_be_embarrassing.md index d470faf..d971488 100644 --- a/content/drafts/accidentally_misleading_people_should_be_embarrassing.md +++ b/content/drafts/accidentally_misleading_people_should_be_embarrassing.md @@ -34,6 +34,4 @@ I still think this episode _looks bad for him_ and that he should have been _emb ----- -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] - -[^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.