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Much of what passes for contrarian now is fairly conventional opinions packaged inside an aggrieved, axe-grindey beef-seeking missile attitude. Your opinion merely bring a minority opinion does not make it contrarian. Even mainstream opinions are <50% these days
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Conversely even the most contrarian takes pass unnoticed if you don’t get all theatrical or beef-seeking and fite-me-irl about them. For eg. I champion mediocrity and magical thinking now but nobody calls me contrarian because I’m very nice about it
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People don't pick up on the contrarian part unless you specify and emphasize the tradeoff every time you make a point. Ideally, object-level discussion and explicit "X is better than Y." Doesn't compute if you just speak in favor of X or talk about X vs. Y in abstract.
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