You can be respected for other properties than your contrarianism. If all those other attributes prevail against your funny believe. Whatever that was.
You don’t respect somebody who claims that some centuries were artificially put into the official history but have never happened in fact. If you know only this about him, you can hardly respect him. Except you are inclined to believe it, too.
When you learn it is Kasparov, you probably still think highly of him.
Let’s consider “only possible to be respected for completely different fields” to be a falsification of my position. I’ll demark the kind of respect required as “just this side of Will_Newsome”. I can’t quite consider my respect for Will to fit into specific respect within the lesswrong namespace due to disparities in context relevant belief being beyond a threshold. But I can certainly imagine there being a contrarian that is slightly less extreme that is respect-worthy even at the local level.
I think part of the problem with identifying contrarians that can be respected is that seldom will people who disagree because they are correct or have thought well but differently on a specific issue—rather than merely being contrary in nature—also disagree on most other issues. We will then end up with many people who are contrarian about a few things but mainstream about most. And those people don’t get to be called contrarians usually. If they did then I could claim to be one myself.
A contrarian is never good enough. When he is, he is no longer a contrarian. Or you’ve became one of his kind.
I don’t believe you. Is it really true that it is not possible to be a contrarian and be respected?
You can be respected for other properties than your contrarianism. If all those other attributes prevail against your funny believe. Whatever that was.
You don’t respect somebody who claims that some centuries were artificially put into the official history but have never happened in fact. If you know only this about him, you can hardly respect him. Except you are inclined to believe it, too.
When you learn it is Kasparov, you probably still think highly of him.
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Let’s consider “only possible to be respected for completely different fields” to be a falsification of my position. I’ll demark the kind of respect required as “just this side of Will_Newsome”. I can’t quite consider my respect for Will to fit into specific respect within the lesswrong namespace due to disparities in context relevant belief being beyond a threshold. But I can certainly imagine there being a contrarian that is slightly less extreme that is respect-worthy even at the local level.
I think part of the problem with identifying contrarians that can be respected is that seldom will people who disagree because they are correct or have thought well but differently on a specific issue—rather than merely being contrary in nature—also disagree on most other issues. We will then end up with many people who are contrarian about a few things but mainstream about most. And those people don’t get to be called contrarians usually. If they did then I could claim to be one myself.