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by ineedasername 1889 days ago
Cleverness is unfortunately not orthogonal to depravity or any number of other awful things. It would be a much better world if most hateful people or those who want to do bad things were also not very smart.

Although I'm also not sure how clever a person really needs to be to understand multiple layers of meta: "Meta" is so ingrained in cultural DNA at this point that anyone born in the last 25 years will understand all of it on nearly an intuitive level, and anyone over that age will still have been bombarded by it for decades-- long enough to mostly still get it.