You need enough hubris to overcome friction, to dismiss or at least reframe the question, "Surely if this were possible, someone else would have thought of it first, right?"

But you still get one quadrant that's mostly assholes and another that's more reasonable people.

For a given event, the observed population is a factor of the number of distinct occurrences and the duration of each occurrence (eg, why Apple sales numbers are smaller than usage numbers). A kind genius will know when they are beaten, and wrap up the effort. The asshole will persist (increasing duration) and deflect (increasing anecdotes, and the likelihood those anecdotes will be recalled).

Essentially you have not only survivor bias in effect, but also the Availability Heuristic telling you that if it's easier to recall 5 instances of assholes instead of nice people, then there must be a lot more assholes.