orthonormal comments on How can we get more and better LW contrarians? - Less Wrong

58 Post author: Wei_Dai 18 April 2012 10:01PM

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Comment author: Incorrect 18 April 2012 11:30:31PM 0 points [-]

I completely disagree. The optimal number of contrarians is 0.

Comment author: orthonormal 19 April 2012 02:48:15AM *  3 points [-]

It's unlikely that the "LW mainstream position" is currently right about all of its weird beliefs, though I wouldn't be surprised if we're right to take each of the ideas more seriously than the normal mainstream does.

EDIT: never mind, I didn't catch that you were doing this.