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Trillian walks into the Nexus and sighs in exasperation. "How can you tell if someone is pretending to be stupid just to get people off their guard, pretending to be stupid because he can't be bothered to think and wants someone else to do it for him, pretending to be outrageously stupid to hid the fact he doesn't actually understand what's going on, or just being really, genuinely stupid?"