Mark_Friedenbach comments on What are your contrarian views? - Less Wrong Discussion
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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...
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.
I think it might be better to have one where you upvote things you agree with, and just never downvote.
Upvote interestingness, downvote incoherence, ignore agreement and disagreement?
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.