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Clarity comments on Look for Lone Correct Contrarians - Less Wrong Discussion

20 Post author: Gram_Stone 13 March 2016 04:11PM

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Comment author: Clarity 20 March 2016 01:01:49AM 1 point [-]

Relevant but what do y'all think about the Trump supporter attitude to sexism? Does it need to be contrarian or just part of a different subculture?

Comment author: Gram_Stone 20 March 2016 01:11:23AM *  0 points [-]

Any true belief that people generally cannot arrive at by copying the beliefs of the people around them. The less likely it is that any given person can arrive at the true belief by conforming with someone else's opinion, the more confident we can be that the people who hold the belief have a high correctness factor. It's a cluster, so there can be more or less typical members, and the cluster can change as various beliefs change in frequency within the population. Atheism would have been a correct contrarian belief a long time ago, but not anymore, or at least not contrarian enough to be useful for our purposes.