Nick_Tarleton comments on The "Outside the Box" Box - Less Wrong

33 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 12 October 2007 10:50PM

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Comment author: Nick_Tarleton 12 October 2007 11:43:25PM 6 points [-]

Trying to be original may be justifiable if people will buy a NEW!! product even if it's inferior.

I appreciated your choice of examples. Conformist-nonconformism is about the most annoying thing in the world to me, in addition to making a lot of smart people useless (or worse).