Connotation

• Rationality and the English Language by Eliezer Yudkowsky
• When Truth is a Trap by David J. Balan
• Sneaking in Connotations by Eliezer Yudkowsky
• When Truth Isn't Enough by Yvain
• Useless Medical Disclaimers by Eliezer Yudkowsky - Inability of most people to adequately process statistical information causes even mentioning of negative possibilities, with probability however small, to produce significant negative affect.
• Rationality and the English Language
• Sneaking in Connotations
• When Truth Isn't Enough by Yvain

• Antiprediction
• Not technically a lie
• Affect heuristic
• Inferential distance, Scopescope insensitivity
• Alief
• A Human's Guide to Words

• Rationality and the English Language by Eliezer Yudkowsky
• When Truth is a Trap by David J. Balan
• Sneaking in Connotations by Eliezer Yudkowsky
• When Truth Isn't Enough by Yvain
• Useless Medical Disclaimers by Eliezer Yudkowsky - Inability of most people to adequately process statistical information causes even mentioning of negative possibilities, with probability however small, to produce significant negative affect.

• Antiprediction
• Not technically a lie
• Affect heuristic
• Inferential distance, Scope insensitivity
• Alief

See also

• Antiprediction
• Not technically a lie
• Affect heuristic
• Inferential distance, Scope insensitivity

See also

• Antiprediction
• Not technically a lie
• Affect heuristic
• Inferential distance, Scope insensitivity

• Antiprediction
• Not technically a lie
• Affect heuristic
• Inferential distance, Scope insensitivity

• When Truth is a Trap by David J. Balan
• Sneaking in Connotations by Eliezer Yudkowsky
• When Truth Isn't Enough by Yvain
• Useless Medical Disclaimers by Eliezer Yudkowsky - Inability of most people to adequately process statistical information causes even mentioning of negative possibilities, with probability however small, to produce significant negative affect.

• Antiprediction
• Not technically a lie
• Affect heuristic

ReferencesSee also

Overcoming Bias Articles

• Antiprediction
• Not technically a lie

Blog posts

Less Wrong Articles

• Sneaking in Connotations by Eliezer Yudkowsky
• When Truth Isn't Enough by Yvain

See Also

Connotation is a subjective cultural and/or emotional coloration in addition to the explicit or denotative meaning of any specific word or phrase in a language, i.e. emotional association with a word.

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