Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on The Correct Contrarian Cluster - Less Wrong

38 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 21 December 2009 10:01PM

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Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 21 December 2009 11:57:50PM 0 points [-]

I expect that all "things to investigate" you'd find would've already been on the radar.

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 22 December 2009 12:24:57AM 1 point [-]

I don't, especially if you let respondents suggest additional items and incorporated them. The CCC is large and includes things like (probably) the Shangri-La Diet.

Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 22 December 2009 12:54:08AM *  1 point [-]

Then the gain is not in turning attention to things considered wrong, but more to things that weren't considered at all. High-quality memetic availability pool allowing to not waste time on false positives. Again, too dramatic an effect to get from a poll, and it's unclear to what area should the finds be tuned. I'm not at all interested in know that cold fusion is real if counterfactually it is.