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Humanity’s beliefs on many important topics have long been just inconsistent and incoherent across disparate fields of inquiry. Creating a huge opportunity to learn lots of big stuff fast: search for more contradictions between fields, and resolve them. (More)

If you learn key consensus results from many different fields, you will often find that they are in conflict, in ways one or both fields are unaware. As consensus results are usually correct, all you have to do is identify which field is more likely to be correct in this particular case. Which often isn’t that hard.
— Read on www.overcomingbias.com/p/how-to-be-a-usually-right-contrarian