Oligopsony comments on The bias shield - Less Wrong

18 Post author: PhilGoetz 31 December 2011 05:44PM

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Comment author: Oligopsony 31 December 2011 07:22:48PM 5 points [-]

I don't think so. You don't see moderates behaving that way towards moderates.

I don't think that's really true: the few people who do think about politics a lot and self-identify as "moderates" to the exclusion of other labels do seem very apt to explain disagreement by others' fanaticism, ideology, groupthink, extremism, or other ways of not being a moderate.