Relsqui comments on Intellectual Hipsters and Meta-Contrarianism - LessWrong

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

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Comment author: Relsqui 14 September 2010 07:26:41PM 3 points [-]

I agree with that, and you make a good point--it suggests that being contrarian doesn't require disagreeing with the position as disagreeing with the reasoning. In a lot of cases it'll amount to the same thing, or at least come off as the same thing, but the above is one where it doesn't.