To style oneself a “contrarian” is a giant red warning light that the person has nothing useful to say. That rule has not failed me yet.
I think you think Robin Hanson and Eliezer Yudkowsky have useful things to say. Both have styled themselves contrarians.
Your points are clearly dumb cliches—I think you did that purposefully, but I think the way in which you did it is self-contradictory, thus your meta-level point would also be invalid. So maybe you’re calling attention to the meta-level problem of determining what a “contrarian” is?
Hm… I think you’re lying to be contrary. E.g.:
I think you think Robin Hanson and Eliezer Yudkowsky have useful things to say. Both have styled themselves contrarians.
Your points are clearly dumb cliches—I think you did that purposefully, but I think the way in which you did it is self-contradictory, thus your meta-level point would also be invalid. So maybe you’re calling attention to the meta-level problem of determining what a “contrarian” is?