In general that's a hazard of any knowledge worker job. Aren't physicists kind of infamous for thinking they can weigh in on other scientific fields, as if phys

In general that's a hazard of any knowledge worker job. Aren't physicists kind of infamous for thinking they can weigh in on other scientific fields, as if physics trumps everything else? In any case, I think the "judge an economics prize" angle wasn't really intended to be a "software engineers are vain", but rather "people involved with cryptocurrency are likely to consider themselves to be experts on economics and think that they know better than most" so that actually seems like a very well-targeted phishing attempt.