"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." - Rene Descartes

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[–]happysmash27 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (5 children)

According to https://reddit.com/comments/1j3ycg/comment/cbb48uo, the book of 4chan. Original comment, for posterity:

This is not a Descartes quote, this is a quote 4chan came up with and attributed to Descartes as a joke.

This comment was created by Reddit user dakkr at approximately 2013-07-26 6:24 pm.

/u/Magnora7, I think we made a goof here!

Edit: According to the Wikiquote talk page:

The original source for this quote, as far as I can tell, is a Y Combinator user named DarkShikari. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1011498.

So I guess 4chan made the attribution, while the actual author of the quote was DarkShikari.

[–]magnora7[S] 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Interesting, could be! Thanks for checking that out. I also had no idea ycombinator and hackernews was that old... did you know the guy who made hackernews also invented the pyramid of debate?

[–]Stoner 1 insightful - 3 fun1 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 3 fun -  (2 children)

Did you know that the guy who invented the pyramid is portraited in 1999's "The Mummy"?

[–]Tom_Bombadil 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

The Rock?

[–]Stoner 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yes, here's a picture of him in the "Jumanji" remake.

https://i.imgur.com/qJkeGXL.jpg

[–]sawboss 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

4chan

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