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The phrase "well-trained idiot" appeared in an HN comment earlier today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21123542

Although they mean different things -- a confident idiot is uninformed but convinced he is the opposite; a well-trained idiot has been brought up (usually in an upper social class) learning how to fake intelligence -- I wonder if https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=who-knows (who submitted this post) read this comment and had the notion bouncing around in their head.

In any case, there's also an "educated idiot": https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Educated%20I...


Not to mention the "useful idiot".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Useful_idiot


...and with 158 comments.




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