Lonely Dissent - LessWrong
Asch’s conformity experiment showed that the presence of a single dissenter tremendously reduced the incidence of “conforming” wrong answers. Individ…
x Lonely Dissent — LessWrong Death Spirals Conformity Bias Courage Social Reality Groupthink Social & Cultural Dynamics Rationality Frontpage 194 Lonely Dissent by Eliezer Yudkowsky 28th Dec 2007 5 min read 91 194 Asch’s conformity experiment showed that the presence of a single dissenter tremendously reduced the incidence of “conforming” wrong answers. Individualism is easy, experiment shows, when you have company in your defiance. Every other subject in the room, except one, says that black is white. You become the second person to say that black is black. And it feels glorious: the two of y
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