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I'm not sure if that's a good thing...
Once you have so many smart contrarians that you run into sharp diminishing returns trying to recruit more, you want to attract smart non-contrarians. To pick a very silly example, a group of mostly Gentiles musing aimlessly on the ethics of genociding Jews (because it's a local point of pride to play with any idea no matter how evil or stupid) is going to have a hard time attracting Jews.
Why are there diminishing returns? Because too many smart contrarians cannot coexist? Because we ran out of smart contrarians to recruit? Because a group requires non-smart or non-contrarian people too in order to function better?
Also: over the last year many people joined LW, many of them referred here by HPMOR. I would expect these people to be less smart-contrarian.