ciphergoth comments on Intellectual Hipsters and Meta-Contrarianism - Less Wrong
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I think that this only works if positions are in one dimension. If they are in many dimensions then I suspect that the truth and the uneducated opinion are on the same side of the contrarian opinion as often as they are on opposite sides.
EDIT: I no longer think the above makes any sense. I'm tired, sorry!