MichaelVassar comments on The Contrarian Status Catch-22 - Less Wrong

49 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 19 December 2009 10:40PM

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Comment author: Andy_McKenzie 20 December 2009 05:58:46AM 35 points [-]

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.

Comment author: MichaelVassar 21 December 2009 07:53:12AM 16 points [-]

Great debate starter.

One quibble, I don't think that it's even ostensibly normal to have or aspire to have a coherent worldview.