Ah, but only a truly great writer could have come up with:

> Start reading books or you're going to look stupid to the people around you

Wherein the prose wasn’t at all sloppy, the tautology was certainly intentional; the implied audience of “look stupid” could be to people entirely absent of the vicinity!

Make grand assumptions about other HN users without knowing anything else but their HN comments, I betcha you won't find a better past-time for internet strangers :)