juliawise comments on Designing Rationalist Projects - Less Wrong

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Comment author: juliawise 28 August 2011 10:12:50PM 0 points [-]

There's someone at the meetup I attend who draws that card every week.

Is the purpose of this exercise for the others to guess drew the contrary card? If so, what is this good for?

Comment author: wnoise 29 August 2011 06:16:36AM 3 points [-]

To make sure it is a different someone. It's very easy for us to mentally categorize someone as "Oh, that's just old crazy uncle Eddy. No reason to actually consider his arguments seriously". And it's also useful for people to gain practice at dissenting.