multifoliaterose comments on Intellectual Hipsters and Meta-Contrarianism - LessWrong

147 Post author: Yvain 13 September 2010 09:36PM

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Comment author: multifoliaterose 13 September 2010 10:03:24PM 6 points [-]

people get deep personal satisfaction from arguing the positions even when their arguments are unlikely to change policy

I very much wish that intellectual debate was more effectiveness-oriented in general. I myself try to refrain from arguing about things that don't actually matter or that I can't hope to change (not always successfully).