Yvain 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: Yvain 14 September 2010 07:12:49PM 4 points [-]

Maybe it's context dependent. If I am hanging around a lot of contrarians, I usually end up looking for a meta-contrarian position. If I'm hanging around a lot of meta-contrarians who I think aren't as smart as me, and those meta-contrarians are being really smug and annoying, I become meta-meta-contrarian. I fondly remember a period of my life when I went to my college's Objectivist club every week to argue vehemently against everything they said. I think that qualifies as meta-meta-contrarian if anything does.