Doug_S. comments on How to Seem (and Be) Deep - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Doug_S. 15 October 2007 11:48:35PM 1 point [-]

The movie Mystery Men makes fun of this with a character called The Sphinx. He appears as a mysterious mentor to the group of wannabe comic book heroes that the story focuses on. For a while, he appears to be saying things of great wisdom, but then it becomes apparent that he uses a simple algorithm for generating his profound-seeming sayings.