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Stupids
n. Term used by samurai for the suits who employ them; succinctly expresses
an attitude at least as common, though usually better disguised, among other
subcultures of hackers. There may be intended reference here to an SF story
originally published in 1952 but much anthologized since, Mark Clifton's
Star, Bright. In it, a super-genius child classifies humans into a very few
Brights like herself, a huge majority of Stupids , and a minority of Tweens
, the merely ordinary geniuses.