A sciolist is someone with superficial knowledge who pretends to know more. Also known as a pretender of learning.

Derived from Latin *sciolus* meaning to possess shallow knowledge.

For example: Most politicians are fucking sciolists.

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Also known as Dunning-Kruger. The problem is real… it’s a place where almost all of the Bitcoin critics come from

I’d even go one step further and say that many from tradfi suffer from a problem known as ultracrepidarianism. This phenomenon comes from a person having a particularly well developed knowledge set (let’s say tradfi bond markets) and they believe that this bestows high levels of expertise in many other areas of adjacency (Bitcoin for example). The term comes from the Latin “ne supra crepidam sutor iudicaret” has its roots in a story involving the ancient Greek painter Apelles and a shoemaker, meaning “let the shoemaker not judge beyond the sandal.”

Sophomore seems close

They’re never going to understand what that is. Better to just call them idiots.