wedrifid comments on Lonely Dissent - Less Wrong

34 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 28 December 2007 04:23AM

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Comment author: RobinHanson 28 December 2007 05:16:38AM 10 points [-]

In addition to suffering social disapproval when they first make their contrary claims, the lonely dissenter should realize that even if they are eventually proven right, they will likely still lose socially compared to if they had not so dissented.

Comment author: wedrifid 07 October 2009 01:35:49AM 10 points [-]

So shut up and bet.