Liron comments on Intellectual Hipsters and Meta-Contrarianism - Less Wrong

147 Post author: Yvain 13 September 2010 09:36PM

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Comment author: HughRistik 13 September 2010 11:47:41PM 2 points [-]

Are there also meta-meta-contrarians?

Comment author: steven0461 13 September 2010 11:51:37PM *  2 points [-]

I was wondering the same thing. Scott Aaronson and Cosma Shalizi come to mind.

Comment author: Liron 14 September 2010 12:21:30AM 2 points [-]

Since he doesn't present sophisticated meta-meta-arguments, to me it just seems like Scott's beliefs are harder to shift from contrarian to meta-contrarian.

Comment author: steven0461 14 September 2010 12:24:59AM 2 points [-]

That sounds right, though maybe as you go more meta it just gets harder to distinguish between any level and the level two levels down.