i am *extremely* wary of people who make being an autodidact their personality
September 27, 2026 at 8:12 PM
i am *extremely* wary of people who make being an autodidact their personality
Autodidact due to a lack of funds/access to formal education: cool, that’s really great
Autodidact because you think you’re smarter than the whole educational system and don’t need it: 🚨🚨🚨
Autodidact because you think you’re smarter than the whole educational system and don’t need it: 🚨🚨🚨
September 27, 2026 at 8:19 PM
Autodidact due to a lack of funds/access to formal education: cool, that’s really great
Autodidact because you think you’re smarter than the whole educational system and don’t need it: 🚨🚨🚨
Autodidact because you think you’re smarter than the whole educational system and don’t need it: 🚨🚨🚨
day 1 becoming an autodidact
June 16, 2025 at 11:40 PM
day 1 becoming an autodidact
Anyone who revels in the appellation "Autodidact" is automatically an insufferable little shit and should be treated with the contempt they deserve.
the Eliezer Yudkowsky superhero origin story is truly so intensely dorky as to defy all attempts at parody. you could not waterboard any of this out of me
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September 27, 2026 at 1:57 AM
Anyone who revels in the appellation "Autodidact" is automatically an insufferable little shit and should be treated with the contempt they deserve.
People who give themselves the titles “raconteur,” “polymath,” or “autodidact”… why
August 8, 2025 at 11:33 PM
People who give themselves the titles “raconteur,” “polymath,” or “autodidact”… why
"Polymath" is one of the single worst self-identifiers out there, right up there with "high IQ" and "autodidact".
I'd be super worried to see someone self-identify as a "polymath" even if they were an actual polymath (and the same, respectively, w/ "high IQ" and "autodidact")
I'd be super worried to see someone self-identify as a "polymath" even if they were an actual polymath (and the same, respectively, w/ "high IQ" and "autodidact")
I just spent time arguing with someone who describes himself as "a polymath and a rōnin scholar," because I'm on leave and I'm stupid.
June 11, 2025 at 6:01 PM
"Polymath" is one of the single worst self-identifiers out there, right up there with "high IQ" and "autodidact".
I'd be super worried to see someone self-identify as a "polymath" even if they were an actual polymath (and the same, respectively, w/ "high IQ" and "autodidact")
I'd be super worried to see someone self-identify as a "polymath" even if they were an actual polymath (and the same, respectively, w/ "high IQ" and "autodidact")
The autodidact taught himself to drive.
February 5, 2026 at 8:32 AM
The autodidact taught himself to drive.
lol missed this
I thought people realized I'm an autodidact for better or worse
I thought people realized I'm an autodidact for better or worse
July 19, 2025 at 1:16 AM
lol missed this
I thought people realized I'm an autodidact for better or worse
I thought people realized I'm an autodidact for better or worse
The internet loves an autodidact!
November 19, 2025 at 1:25 AM
The internet loves an autodidact!
I'm not an autodidact, I'm a winodidact
November 8, 2025 at 9:05 AM
I'm not an autodidact, I'm a winodidact
In college during my autodidact-cinephile summer, I asked the clerk if they had “8 1/2,” and he directed me to the XXX section.
I was working a busy solo shift at a video store and when a customer asked for Romancing the Stone in my haste I sent them off with a copy of Romancing the Bone.
Tell me about the video store of your past please
August 31, 2026 at 2:21 AM
In college during my autodidact-cinephile summer, I asked the clerk if they had “8 1/2,” and he directed me to the XXX section.
January 8, 2025 at 11:15 PM
oh, i need help, and the world assumes i'm an autodidact
November 11, 2025 at 7:15 PM
oh, i need help, and the world assumes i'm an autodidact
Long live the autodidact.
Nevermind the Guardian list, how many of the 93 books cited at one time or another by Mark E. Smith have you read
May 17, 2026 at 9:53 AM
Long live the autodidact.
as an incorrigible autodidact ex-reporter, this one got me
Having mastered epidemiology, Russian history, toilet paper supply chain logistics, bridge design, balloon aeronautics, and large language models, I'd like to offer my thoughts on how the closing of the Strait of Hormuz will impact Brent crude....(1/67)
March 9, 2026 at 11:49 AM
as an incorrigible autodidact ex-reporter, this one got me
heterodox high-IQ autodidact polymath
June 11, 2025 at 6:08 PM
heterodox high-IQ autodidact polymath
"You're an autodidact? So you shoved YOURSELF into a locker in high school?"
February 6, 2025 at 4:05 AM
"You're an autodidact? So you shoved YOURSELF into a locker in high school?"
Autodidact lunch (crudely fashioned sandwich)
December 25, 2024 at 5:16 AM
Autodidact lunch (crudely fashioned sandwich)
Kiyoshi Kurosawa, the autodidact geologist who has been looking into the mystery of Mount Ohiruyama for the last 20 years has a movie about a samurai coming out?
August 6, 2026 at 10:25 PM
Kiyoshi Kurosawa, the autodidact geologist who has been looking into the mystery of Mount Ohiruyama for the last 20 years has a movie about a samurai coming out?
I wouldn’t expect someone who isn’t an autodidact free thinker to agree
January 15, 2026 at 8:18 PM
I wouldn’t expect someone who isn’t an autodidact free thinker to agree
i'm thinking about sex, but in a disgraced autodidact philosopher sort of way. i would never be so crudely pedestrian as to jack off about sex
September 25, 2026 at 10:04 AM
i'm thinking about sex, but in a disgraced autodidact philosopher sort of way. i would never be so crudely pedestrian as to jack off about sex
He's a logorrheic autodidact who hasn't been appropriately socialized. See also Curtis Yarvin. Can't speak to whether he's otherwise disordered, but it kinda looks like it from the outside.
He flatters the egos of a bunch of awful rich people, like Yarvin does, so now we have to care who he is.
He flatters the egos of a bunch of awful rich people, like Yarvin does, so now we have to care who he is.
September 27, 2026 at 2:07 AM
He's a logorrheic autodidact who hasn't been appropriately socialized. See also Curtis Yarvin. Can't speak to whether he's otherwise disordered, but it kinda looks like it from the outside.
He flatters the egos of a bunch of awful rich people, like Yarvin does, so now we have to care who he is.
He flatters the egos of a bunch of awful rich people, like Yarvin does, so now we have to care who he is.