Nornagest comments on Undiscriminating Skepticism - Less Wrong

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

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 18 April 2012 10:44:52PM 2 points [-]

This seems like a good "control" thought experiment to determine whether people are just being contrarian.

Comment author: Nornagest 18 April 2012 10:48:46PM 7 points [-]

I think you'd have to be a pretty unsubtle contrarian to answer that with "torture".

Comment author: TheOtherDave 19 April 2012 06:09:17PM * 3 points [-]

And yet, at least one person below did just that. Edit: ...but later asserted that had been a joke.