gwern comments on Meetup : West LA Meetup—Confess Your Unpopular Opinion - Less Wrong

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Comment author: gwern 09 August 2013 03:56:41PM *  6 points [-]

If the responses weren't tame and people were expressing genuinely unpopular opinions, it'd basically be a suicidal let-100-flowers-bloom folly.

EDIT: my RSS reader today furnishes an excellent example of why even popular opinions can be too dangerous to tweet.