WalterL comments on Exercise in rationality: popular quotes, revisited - Less Wrong
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It's hard to figure out how to phrase the comeback in favor of status games here, but its important.
Like, looking dumb is bad. Very bad. Better to look surly. (which is mainly bad because folks understand its usually hiding dumb). Once people believe that you are dumb it's mostly unrecoverable. They'll stop including you.