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

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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.