TimS comments on How can we get more and better LW contrarians?

TimS 18 Apr 2012 23:58 UTC
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I’d guess that somewhere between ¹⁄₃ and ¹⁄₄ of the current active LessWrong community should be willing to intelligently disagree with consensus—if our goal is to improve our theories of how society does and should work.
- Incorrect 19 Apr 2012 0:00 UTC
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  I completely disagree.
  - TimS 19 Apr 2012 0:05 UTC
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    Is there an answer (other than zero), that you wouldn’t completely disagree with? If not, why did you ask me for my number first?
    
    FWIW, I don’t think “willingness to intelligently disagree with consensus” = contrarian. Disagreeing for the simple purpose of disagreeing is pointless.
    - Incorrect 19 Apr 2012 0:10 UTC
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      Is there an answer (other than zero), that you wouldn’t completely disagree with?
      
      I would disagree with you if you said zero too.
      - Dorikka 19 Apr 2012 0:22 UTC
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        If this chain of posts is a joke, I don’t think I get it. If it’s not, I am mildly amused.
        [deleted] 19 Apr 2012 0:33 UTC
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        I think it’s a meta-joke. Incorrect is a hyper-contrarian arguing about how many contrarians there should be :)
        CarlShulman 19 Apr 2012 0:58 UTC
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        Not only that, but in an uninformative and confrontational manner, posing the problem of how to respond to generate better contrarianism.
        Eugine_Nier 19 Apr 2012 1:54 UTC
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        TimS is encouraging people to be more contrarian, so Incorrect is disagreeing with him.
        TimS 19 Apr 2012 14:15 UTC
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        contrarian != willing to intelligently disagree with consensus
        TimS 19 Apr 2012 0:51 UTC
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        I’m not joking, but it’s pretty clear Incorrect is. I’m not amused, but the joke is basically at my expense, so that’s not very good evidence of whether Incorrect was actually amusing.
        thomblake 19 Apr 2012 0:54 UTC
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        I’m not amused, but the joke is basically at my expense, so that’s not very good evidence of whether Incorrect was actually amusing.
        
        Speaking as one who often upvotes bad jokes...
        
        No.
        thomblake 25 Apr 2012 22:21 UTC
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        For clarification, I only upvote good bad jokes.
  - taelor 19 Apr 2012 6:51 UTC
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    Is this the right room for an argument?
    
    Edit: I seemed to have failed my spot test to notice that some else in the thread had aready linked to the same video.