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Viliam_Bur comments on Controversy - Healthy or Harmful? - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Viliam_Bur 08 April 2014 10:49:01AM 3 points [-]

Controversy - Healthy or Harmful?

Depends on the specific controversy, I guess.

To give a better answer, we could let an algorithm choose, say, 100 random comments with negative karma, and then make a poll and let users rate these comments as "healthy controversy" or "harmful".

My guess is that I would rate 70-80% of them as a waste of time.