Intellectual Hipsters and Meta-Contrarianism - LessWrong
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x Intellectual Hipsters and Meta-Contrarianism — LessWrong Argument and Analysis Social Status Contrarianism Signaling Social & Cultural Dynamics Intellectual Fashion World Modeling Frontpage 397 Intellectual Hipsters and Meta-Contrarianism by Scott Alexander 13th Sep 2010 9 min read 367 397 Related to: Why Real Men Wear Pink , That Other Kind of Status , Pretending to be Wise , The "Outside The Box" Box WARNING: Beware of things that are fun to argue -- Eliezer Yudkowsky Science has inexplicably failed to come up with a precise definition of "hipster", but from my limited understanding a hips
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