yew comments on What's going on here? - Less Wrong

15 Post author: RobertLumley 27 January 2012 01:38AM

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Comment author: [deleted] 27 January 2012 05:05:02AM 1 point [-]

There is such a thing as an unreasonable position (a crackpot, if you like). The difficulty is in accurately distinguishing between correct contrarians, the reasonably misinformed, and the absurd.

This being a wonderful example of the negative effects of that difficulty.