NancyLebovitz comments on Intellectual Hipsters and Meta-Contrarianism - LessWrong

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Comment author: NancyLebovitz 18 November 2011 12:45:49PM 1 point [-]

As for contrarianism, I think of myself as a second-order curmudgeon. When people talk about how things are getting worse, I push for specific examples rather than just a claim that things are bad. People rarely have anything specific in mind.