cousin_it comments on Intellectual Hipsters and Meta-Contrarianism - LessWrong

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

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Comment author: cousin_it 14 September 2010 06:30:44PM *  3 points [-]

I think the post was a guideline to help you catch yourself when you write the bottom line of your position for signaling reasons (contrarian or meta-contrarian). If you never experience that problem, more power to you. I do have it and the post was helpful to me.

Comment author: Mercy 14 September 2010 06:51:56PM 0 points [-]

Hah, I'm sure I do, I guess the point then is that just because your position is counter-revolutionary, doesn't mean you haven't adopted it out of rebelliousness. Um, assuming that revolutionary zeal as a potential source of bottom lines was taken for granted. I think I knew that already, if only through hatred of South Park style antagonistic third way-ism, and so have spent these last few responses training on straw.