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I guess my main answers would be, in order:
1) You'll have to do with the base probability of a highly intelligent human being a sociopath.
2) Elaborately deceptive sociopaths would probably fake something other than our own nerdery...? Even taking into account the whole "But that's what we want you to think" thing.
3) All sorts of nasty things we could be doing and could probably get away with doing if we had exclusively sociopath core personnel, at least some of which would leave visible outside traces while still being the sort of thing we could manage to excuse away by talking fast enough.
4) Why are you asking me that? Shouldn't you be asking, like, anyone else?
Re. 4, not for the way I asked the question. Obviously asking for a probability, or any empirical evidence I would have to take your word on, would have been silly. But there might have been excellent public evidence against the Evil hypothesis I just wasn't aware of (I couldn't think of any likely candidates, but that might have been a failure of my imagination); in that case, you would likely be aware of such evidence, and would have a significant icentive to present it. It was a long shot.