You can be respected for other properties than your contrarianism. If all those other attributes prevail against your funny believe. Whatever that was.
You don't respect somebody who claims that some centuries were artificially put into the official history but have never happened in fact. If you know only this about him, you can hardly respect him. Except you are inclined to believe it, too.
When you learn it is Kasparov, you probably still think highly of him.
Let's consider "only possible to be respected for completely different fields" to be a falsification of my position. I'll demark the kind of respect required as "just this side of Will_Newsome". I can't quite consider my respect for Will to fit into specific respect within the lesswrong namespace due to disparities in context relevant belief being beyond a threshold. But I can certainly imagine there being a contrarian that is slightly less extreme that is respect-worthy even at the local level.
I think part of the problem with identifyi...
This is directed at those who agree with SIAI but are not doing everything they can to support their mission.
Why are you not doing more?
Comments where people proclaim that they have contributed money to SIAI are upvoted 50 times and more. 180 people voted for 'unfriendly AI' to be the most fearsome risk.
If you are one of those people and are not fully committed to the cause, I am asking you, why are you not doing more?