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vi21maobk9vp 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: vi21maobk9vp 20 April 2012 06:05:03PM 1 point [-]

If I have seen the replies to well-written comments expressing some opinions, I may find it unlikely that I would get new information from replies to a discussion post.

And I may have some hard-to-share reasons and personal red flags, so I do not know whether I will do good to anyone.

So, why bother?

Maybe original poster wouldn't agree with this approach, but his behaviour is consistent with it.