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ChristianKl comments on Narcissistic Contrarianism - Less Wrong Discussion

-1 Post author: HalMorris 21 November 2014 12:19AM

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Comment author: ChristianKl 21 November 2014 03:44:02PM 2 points [-]

You seem to follow with 3 likely different interpretations of the same behavior.

The key thing is the pronoun. Nobody thinks of himself as a narcissistic contrarian. They rather think of themselves as a deep and original thinker.

Comment author: HalMorris 21 November 2014 03:51:27PM -1 points [-]

Actually I suspect there are a few more self-aware ones who just have a grand old time dazzling people.

In order of decreasing likelihood:

Norman Mailer (and I was trying to think of someone probably living or more recently deceased who's more Norman Mailer than Norman Mailer -- any clues?)

Camille Paglia

Nicholas Nassim Taleb