PhilGoetz 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: 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.