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		MattGaiser 6 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How can a top scientist be so confidently wrong? R... Why? Why do people insist that brilliance means some moral purity? What makes brilliance and greed impossible together?

dwattttt 6 months ago [–]

You can be brilliant and greedy. The point at which you're making statements based on your greed rather than your brilliance, that's the line we stop saying they're brilliant.

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