CronoDAS comments on The Correct Contrarian Cluster - Less Wrong

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

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Comment author: CronoDAS 22 December 2009 07:08:58AM 2 points [-]

What's the difference between a contrarian and a crackpot?

Comment author: ciphergoth 22 December 2009 08:17:18AM 22 points [-]

I am a bold thinker, you are a contrarian, he/she is a crackpot.

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 22 December 2009 06:17:51PM 6 points [-]

Crackpots are wrong contrarians.

(Not really. There's this whole weird complex of personality traits that goes along with that.)

Comment author: PhilGoetz 22 December 2009 05:45:09PM 5 points [-]

Someone who's correctly contrarian on one issue is likely to be a crackpot on another. You hope that, by averaging contrarians together, the crackpot opinions will be averaged out.

Comment author: wedrifid 22 December 2009 07:28:39AM 9 points [-]

What's the difference between a contrarian and a crackpot?

The degree of disrespect the speaker desires to convey to the labelled individual.

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