Patri_Friedman comments on Evaporative Cooling of Group Beliefs - Less Wrong
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Great post! I'd guess the effect is smaller than cognitive dissonance, but it definitely seems real. The tricky part, as you point out at the end, is how to apply it. But I don't think it's that hard to separate trolls from dissenters.