Contrarianism

TagLast edit: 26 Jan 2021 12:44 UTC by Yoav Ravid

A contrarian is a person who holds a contrary position, especially a position against the majority (from Wikipedia).

Intellectual Hipsters and Meta-Contrarianism

Scott Alexander13 Sep 2010 21:36 UTC

295 points

361 comments8 min readLW link

How can we get more and better LW contrarians?

Wei_Dai18 Apr 2012 22:01 UTC

82 points

335 comments2 min readLW link

The Correct Contrarian Cluster

Eliezer Yudkowsky21 Dec 2009 22:01 UTC

57 points

255 comments5 min readLW link

Combat vs Nurture & Meta-Contrarianism

abramdemski10 Jan 2019 23:17 UTC

64 points

12 comments4 min readLW link 1 nomination

The Contrarian Status Catch-22

Eliezer Yudkowsky19 Dec 2009 22:40 UTC

63 points

102 comments4 min readLW link

Murphy’s Quest Ch 12: Meta-Contrarianism

alkjash10 Mar 2018 23:00 UTC

11 points

1 comment4 min readLW link

(radimentary.wordpress.com)

Contrarianism and reference class forecasting

taw25 Nov 2009 19:41 UTC

29 points

94 comments2 min readLW link

Is my view contrarian?

lukeprog11 Mar 2014 17:42 UTC

33 points

96 comments9 min readLW link

Contrarian LW views and their economic implications

Larks8 Oct 2014 23:48 UTC

30 points

126 comments1 min readLW link

What are your contrarian views?

Metus15 Sep 2014 9:17 UTC

15 points

812 comments1 min readLW link

[Link] You Should Downvote Contrarian Anecdotes

Vladimir_Golovin18 Jun 2012 7:57 UTC

16 points

21 comments1 min readLW link

Discussion of “What are your contrarian views?”

Metus20 Sep 2014 12:09 UTC

11 points

20 comments1 min readLW link

Conversational Cultures: Combat vs Nurture (V2)

Ruby8 Jan 2020 20:23 UTC

131 points

90 comments9 min readLW link

Rules of variety

KatjaGrace8 Dec 2017 17:10 UTC

31 points

8 comments3 min readLW link

(meteuphoric.wordpress.com)

Closet survey #1

[deleted]14 Mar 2009 7:51 UTC

71 points

676 comments1 min readLW link

I’ve had it with those dark rumours about our culture rigorously suppressing opinions

Multiheaded25 Jan 2012 17:43 UTC

39 points

866 comments2 min readLW link

The Irrationality Game

Will_Newsome3 Oct 2010 2:43 UTC

44 points

931 comments3 min readLW link

Against Devil’s Advocacy

Eliezer Yudkowsky9 Jun 2008 4:15 UTC

40 points

60 comments6 min readLW link

[Question] Who’s an unusual thinker that you recommend following?

DonyChristie13 Sep 2019 4:11 UTC

28 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

Look for Lone Correct Contrarians

Gram_Stone13 Mar 2016 16:11 UTC

33 points

27 comments4 min readLW link

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