MichaelVassar comments on The Contrarian Status Catch-22 - Less Wrong
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Right. This is why I think it's under-ratedly important for contrarians who actually believe in the potential efficacy of their beliefs to not seem like contrarians. If you truly believe that your ideas are underrepresented then you will much better promote them by being appearing generally "normal" and passing off the underrepresented idea as a fairly typical part of your ostensibly coherent worldview. I will admit that this is more challenging.
Great debate starter.
One quibble, I don't think that it's even ostensibly normal to have or aspire to have a coherent worldview.