[jagrsw]

I replied on this in another subthread, a minute ago or so.

But as for the 'mainstream', Joscha exactly doesn't want to be mainstream - see his TT stream: :)

"In a playground where most people can neither come up with ideas of their own.." and various other tweets and presos related to the harm of conforming to societal norms of thinking.

[antepodius]

If your views happen to align with the mainstream, that still isn't a reason to change them in and of itself. Being ruled and controlled by the mainstream is bad, because the mainstream makes mistakes; but that doesn't mean that the right path is just to try and be as much the opposite of the mainstream as possible.

[jagrsw]

There's no disagreement in here.