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Mark_Friedenbach comments on What are your contrarian views? - Less Wrong Discussion

10 Post author: Metus 15 September 2014 09:17AM

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Comment author: [deleted] 15 September 2014 04:22:41PM 12 points [-]

Meta-comment: I'm not sure that structure or voting scheme is particularly useful. The hope would be to allow conversation about contrarian viewpoints which are actually worth investigating. I'm not sure how you separate the wheat from the chaff, but that should be the goal...

Comment author: D_Malik 15 September 2014 06:02:48PM 15 points [-]

Yes. Contrarian position: This thread would be better if we upvoted contrarian positions that are interesting or caused updates, not those that we disagree with.

Comment author: DanielLC 15 September 2014 11:15:41PM 2 points [-]

I think it might be better to have one where you upvote things you agree with, and just never downvote.

Comment author: FiftyTwo 21 September 2014 12:44:42AM 1 point [-]

Upvote interestingness, downvote incoherence, ignore agreement and disagreement?

Comment author: [deleted] 21 September 2014 02:47:14AM *  0 points [-]

Although you must be certain that incoherence is actually incoherence. Inferential distance means that an idea sufficiently distant from your own beliefs will seem incoherent. Otherwise I like this.