I did mean “and most of all contrarian” quite seriously, I just didn’t expect readers to take that as good. It was meant as a warning since I think Moldbug would be a better thinker if he was less contrarian but I’ll update on you reading of it when using the term in the future.
This apparent misunderstanding on second thought isn’t surprising since this community is self-selected for the kind of people who like enjoy contrarian arguments. Weird out there (not saying incorrect) beliefs such as buying cryonics being a good idea otherwise wouldn’t be popular here.
In addition to this if you visit a site where examples of human cognitive failure are investigate every day and individual debasing techniques discussed, but little ephasis is given on how to build communities that have good epistemology or avoid the biases one seems likely to find the story of “lone genius exposes establishment consensus as nonsense” more plausible than otherwise.
I’ll take your word for your intentions, but the article itself gives me no impression that it was intended anything other than seriously.
I did mean “and most of all contrarian” quite seriously, I just didn’t expect readers to take that as good. It was meant as a warning since I think Moldbug would be a better thinker if he was less contrarian but I’ll update on you reading of it when using the term in the future.
This apparent misunderstanding on second thought isn’t surprising since this community is self-selected for the kind of people who like enjoy contrarian arguments. Weird out there (not saying incorrect) beliefs such as buying cryonics being a good idea otherwise wouldn’t be popular here.
In addition to this if you visit a site where examples of human cognitive failure are investigate every day and individual debasing techniques discussed, but little ephasis is given on how to build communities that have good epistemology or avoid the biases one seems likely to find the story of “lone genius exposes establishment consensus as nonsense” more plausible than otherwise.