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nathan_comptontoday at 1:49 PM3 repliesview on HN

This is definitely a why not both sort of situation. In fact, I think being dimwitted is often associated with being evil, since goodness is (often) just rational self-interest.


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nixon_why69today at 1:56 PM

Zuckerberg got enthroned when he was like 22 and has been primarily interacting with people who want something with him, while not having any wants himself, since then.

He's not necessarily dimwitted but it would take an absolutely amazing person to understand the 8 layers below him without having lived any of them. Of course he can't transcend Meta into something beyond what it's become.

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saidnooneevertoday at 1:54 PM

negativity is usually the easy path so evil and dimwittedness go together quite well.

dborehamtoday at 1:56 PM

The evil genius is very rare compared to the evil idiot.

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