kpreid comments on Open Thread: May 2010 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: kpreid 14 May 2010 05:22:36PM *  0 points [-]

It's a vicious cycle-- if you work on something that sounds crank-ish, you get defensive about being seen as a crank, and that defensiveness is also characteristic of cranks. Lather, rinse, repeat.

Chad Orzel

This seems possibly broadly applicable to me; e.g. replace “crank” with “fanboy”.