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There was that time he showed up on Metafilter anonymously and called himself a genius in third person, eventually getting outed... https://mefiwiki.com/wiki/S

• foogazi 4y ago
  From the mefiwiki: > He wrote that he makes contrarian predictions as calculated bets that in the unlikely event they pan out, he would get credit. Doesn’t care about being right or wrong, but getting credit for the appearance of being right. Poisoning the well for his own amusement. To clever to be caught but when it happens it’s because it was all part of the master plan
  • Waterluvian 4y ago
    In high school we had a person who did that. We called him Nostradumbass. It got bizarre and then kind of sad, just how much effort he put into it. At one point he would make lots of timestamped claims and then delete anything that didn't come true.