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Accidentally Misleading People Should Be Embarrassing; Or, Higher Innocence.

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A LessWrong post discusses the discomfort of saying things that are true but cause reasonable people to draw false conclusions, and argues that such situations should prompt embarrassment rather than defensiveness.

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“Embarrassment and Innocence Sometimes we say things that we think are true—perhaps even things that are true—which end up causing reasonable people to conclude something false.”
LessWrong, 31 Oct 2026, 20:03.

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