If his history is to be believed he has always been a smart dissident, but a dissident first and foremost. He is motivated by a need to define himself in opposition to what is popular and that gets in the way of any critical analysis he could have. Flesh has the twitter sickness. Arguments are judged based on how cool they are rather than how much they align with reality. His intellect helps him be autodidactic, so he can intake information and work with it easily, but he lacks the sense to discern right from wrong. This is probably why he is a good tinkerer since being wrong is easy to spot and has unavoidable consequences. There is no punishment for being retarded online and no really effect on your day to day life for having bad takes about society.