The phrase "well-trained idiot" appeared in an HN comment earlier today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21123542 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2112

The phrase "well-trained idiot" appeared in an HN comment earlier today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21123542 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 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%20Idiot https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Educated%20I...