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One of the advantages of formal education over autodidact is that at some point 10-20 years later you realize you learned everything the wrong way, blame your teachers, and start to fix the damage. Self-taught people have no one else to blame but themselves, so they often don’t.
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Autodidactic learning is best where the subject itself forces you into a strong trial and error learning loop, like an REPL. Otherwise the sense of rediscovery creates too much identity attachment to what you know.
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This is a real thing. Even the most trivial learning becomes an identity thing if you discover it for yourself instead of being guided or socratically nudged there. In other news Socratic method is nudging libertarian paternalism and should be viewed with hostile suspicions.
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When you’re self-taught, you’re attached to every mistake that doesn’t obviously and immediately hurt you. What doesn’t kill you only makes you youer.
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