AlexanderRM comments on Intellectual Hipsters and Meta-Contrarianism - LessWrong

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Comment author: AlexanderRM 25 March 2015 05:53:06AM 0 points [-]

Another thing to take away from this is that we should be wary of any system that categorizes opinions based on sociology rather than direct measures of their actual truth. Contrarians and Meta-Contrarians both have similar explanations of why they go for their levels, by pointing out the flaws with the lower level.