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

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Comment author: timtyler 19 April 2012 11:30:43AM 1 point [-]

"Contrarian" is to have written a bottom line already: disagree with everything everyone else agrees with.

Contrarians get to pick and choose their battle grounds. All they have to do to be right is to seek out places where a lot of people are wrong.