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by Cupertino95014 1435 days ago
There are certainly people who think they're intelligent. They like to congratulate each other.

Taleb would call them IYI (intellectual yet idiot).

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He calls everyone that unless you do nothing but slavishly agree with him. Speaking about the quality of social media compared to traditional media...
>There are certainly people who think they're intelligent. They like to congratulate each other.

>Taleb would call them IYI (intellectual yet idiot).

Lenin's "useful idiots" term is always apt.