Vitalik Buterin's April 1st post (dunno if can be called April's Fools, and that's probably on purpose) still unsettles me.

Vitalik is someone whose intelligence I recognize is so much above mine that I believe he would be reliably able to model my thinking. So reading a convincing article, expressing points that are very resonant to me, from him defending a viewpoint I know he doesn't support is... I don't know. It's especially slightly demeaning because it doesn't read like the same level of braininess as his usual writing, as if he has to actually dumb himself down to be able to write it in a way that felt earnest. Makes me feel like a midwit being toyed with by a gigabrain.