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

58 Post author: Wei_Dai 18 April 2012 10:01PM

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Comment author: billswift 19 April 2012 02:16:34PM 2 points [-]

I think this is the best comment, at least the one that best captures my own views, on this thread.

Another way of looking at the problem expressed in buybuydandavis's first two paragraphs is that most people are so busy signalling, rather than thinking, that their concepts are usually "not even wrong".