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

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Comment author: khafra 23 April 2012 12:43:59PM 5 points [-]

Over a year ago, Michael Vassar spoke about writing a rationalist's guide to politics. Seems like the sort of thing Steve Rayhawk would also be good at. Perhaps we could all get together and bribe somebody who could do it well to do it.

Comment author: [deleted] 01 May 2012 07:38:24PM *  2 points [-]

Perhaps we could all get together and bribe somebody who could do it well to do it.

You have my sword.

Comment author: byrnema 23 April 2012 03:24:48PM 0 points [-]

I like that idea.

I expect that this candidate would think very differently from me (perhaps the inferential distance would make communication difficult?) and for some reason be especially detached from social thought patterns. I think I'm somewhat detached, but can't make heads or tails of the patterns. Thus, apart from the possible difficulty in communication, I would trust my judgement of whether they were resolving the questions and would be happy with an individual attempt.

... An example of the type of candidate comes to mind, the Dûnyain Kellhus, but unfortunately he is fictional.