Kevin comments on Undiscriminating Skepticism - Less Wrong

97 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 14 March 2010 11:23PM

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Comment author: Kevin 18 March 2010 08:40:53AM 1 point [-]

Post alternative tl;dr's here.

Comment author: Pavitra 03 August 2011 04:13:39AM 5 points [-]

People tend to believe things that are popular to believe. If you want to find out whether someone's actually smart, rather than if they're just going along with the crowd, then look at their unpopular beliefs. If they believe unpopular true things, they're probably actually smart.