More recent (last week) Hanson writing on contrarianism: http://www.overcomingbias.com/2014/03/prefer-contrarian-questions-vs-answers.html He takes a tack similar to your “value contrarianism”—you and he think that beliefs on these topics (values for you, important topics for him) are less likely for the consensus (whichever one you’re contrary-ing) to be correct.
I wonder if some topics, especially far-mode ones, don’t have truth, or truth is less important.to actions. Those topics would be the ones to choose for contrarian signaling.
More recent (last week) Hanson writing on contrarianism: http://www.overcomingbias.com/2014/03/prefer-contrarian-questions-vs-answers.html He takes a tack similar to your “value contrarianism”—you and he think that beliefs on these topics (values for you, important topics for him) are less likely for the consensus (whichever one you’re contrary-ing) to be correct.
I wonder if some topics, especially far-mode ones, don’t have truth, or truth is less important.to actions. Those topics would be the ones to choose for contrarian signaling.