From d5ea5762f960a6d18d85bb8bad41a4d8eb9c2e59 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Zack M. Davis" Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2026 19:02:36 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] "Accdentially Misleading": maybe it's better without the footnote --- .../accidentally_misleading_people_should_be_embarrassing.md | 4 +--- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-) 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. -- 2.53.0