Losing Faith In Contrarianism
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Crosspost from my blog. • If you spend a lot of time in the blogosphere, you’ll find a great deal of people expressing contrarian views. If you han…
x Losing Faith In Contrarianism — LessWrong World Modeling Frontpage 48 Losing Faith In Contrarianism by Bentham's Bulldog 25th Apr 2024 6 min read 44 48 Crosspost from my blog. If you spend a lot of time in the blogosphere, you’ll find a great deal of people expressing contrarian views. If you hang out in the circles that I do, you’ll probably have heard of Yudkowsky say that dieting doesn’t really work, Guzey say that sleep is overrated, Hanson argue that medicine doesn’t improve health, various people argue for the lab leak, others argue for hereditarianism, Caplan argue that mental illness
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