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TimS 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: John_Maxwell_IV 18 April 2012 11:02:19PM 3 points [-]

I think this would discourage me from writing contrary stuff. Right now if I get voted down, I explain it to myself as me having an unpopular but possibly correct opinion. Hearing that people want "less like this" seems harsh somehow.

Comment author: TimS 19 April 2012 07:01:21PM 2 points [-]

Hearing that people want "less like this" seems harsh somehow.

Isn't that the point? A stimuli that is insufficiently strong to change behavior is pointless to use for behavior modification.