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"Any community that gets its laughs by pretending to be idiots will eventually be flooded by actual idiots who mistakenly believe that they're in good company."
by mindcandy 7y ago
"Any community that gets its laughs by pretending to be idiots will eventually be flooded by actual idiots who mistakenly believe that they're in good company."
DarkShikari, Hacker News, 2009, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1011498 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1011498
- ethbro 7y agoWonder if that's the DarkShikari of Eve Online... Regardless, it's a good quip about the consequences of normalizing the devaluing of intellect.
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- jacquesm 7y agoI wonder what happened to Jason, haven't seen him here or heard from him in ages.
- potatoyogurt 7y agoI wonder as well. I did a project with him when I was a teenager and we didn't entirely get along. He was a very talented guy, though, and I wasn't entirely fair to him. I hope he's doing all right.
- Mirioron 7y agoEven though I didn't know the context of the quote before clicking on the link I knew it had to be about 4chan. It's "fake it till you make it" but towards the negative side.