I think the overlap between gym rats and RW politics is basically a special case of autodidacts and self-perceived autodidacts trending right
December 9, 2024 at 9:30 PM
I think the overlap between gym rats and RW politics is basically a special case of autodidacts and self-perceived autodidacts trending right
Autodidacts and home schooled kids a plus.
September 27, 2026 at 12:54 AM
Autodidacts and home schooled kids a plus.
Heads up introverts, autodidacts and other former gifted kids: at this point if you haven't covered up your old harry potter tattoos.... uhhh...... uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.............
A portion of every dollar spent on Harry Potter merchandise goes to anti-transgender campaigns.
October 27, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Heads up introverts, autodidacts and other former gifted kids: at this point if you haven't covered up your old harry potter tattoos.... uhhh...... uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.............
Autodidacts of the world unite
A world-class education is now completely free — MIT has opened its entire vault of more than 2,500 courses to the public online.
source: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. (2026). About Us: MIT OpenCourseWare. MIT Open Learning.
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source: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. (2026). About Us: MIT OpenCourseWare. MIT Open Learning.
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June 15, 2026 at 2:48 AM
Autodidacts of the world unite
it just inevitably turns into a weird sex thing. Carcinization for autodidacts
August 26, 2024 at 3:51 AM
it just inevitably turns into a weird sex thing. Carcinization for autodidacts
Autodidacts' Silencer 🤫
August 30, 2024 at 10:25 PM
Autodidacts' Silencer 🤫
Hey now a bunch of us are just autodidacts who like PDFs.
June 13, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Hey now a bunch of us are just autodidacts who like PDFs.
Learning in school is not enough. You must continue to teach yourself throughout your life. Study history, read myths, memorize poems, get acquainted with the greatest philosophers & writers. In an age when tech is cooking many brains, we need an army of autodidacts.
September 25, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Learning in school is not enough. You must continue to teach yourself throughout your life. Study history, read myths, memorize poems, get acquainted with the greatest philosophers & writers. In an age when tech is cooking many brains, we need an army of autodidacts.
It's popular on here and sneerclub to mock the rationalists for being rogue autodidacts who aren't sufficiently deferential and servile to the subculture called academia, but imo, that's the opposite of their failure mode: they're too fucking compliant unoriginal undriven chumps.
September 28, 2026 at 4:05 AM
It's popular on here and sneerclub to mock the rationalists for being rogue autodidacts who aren't sufficiently deferential and servile to the subculture called academia, but imo, that's the opposite of their failure mode: they're too fucking compliant unoriginal undriven chumps.
And again, folks a century ago weren’t inherently more intelligent than we are. I believe we could revive a culture, not of intellectuals but of autodidacts. People who are curious about the world, who are excited to learn and study together in community.
March 9, 2025 at 4:29 PM
And again, folks a century ago weren’t inherently more intelligent than we are. I believe we could revive a culture, not of intellectuals but of autodidacts. People who are curious about the world, who are excited to learn and study together in community.
autodidacts are in full on denial about it
September 23, 2026 at 2:13 PM
autodidacts are in full on denial about it
Autodidacts for the win.
June 6, 2026 at 3:12 PM
Autodidacts for the win.
all the downstream effects of having an industry founded by obligate autodidacts
October 29, 2025 at 1:59 PM
all the downstream effects of having an industry founded by obligate autodidacts
the reality is that most people who excelled the most at things relating to security/strategy are autodidacts. abraham lincoln spent inordinate amounts of time using his presidential borrowing privileges at the library of congress to cram military history and military science textbooks during acw
July 23, 2025 at 1:32 PM
the reality is that most people who excelled the most at things relating to security/strategy are autodidacts. abraham lincoln spent inordinate amounts of time using his presidential borrowing privileges at the library of congress to cram military history and military science textbooks during acw
the absurd lionization of autodidacts also plays a big role
April 17, 2026 at 6:34 PM
the absurd lionization of autodidacts also plays a big role
Also working-class autodidacts didn't just read alone - they read in groups, set up libraries and reading rooms, and battled for Mechanics' Institutes (many long ago merged into unis) to teach music, history, and politics. They built the public adult education infrastructure that's being destroyed
This misses the point. Self-education has become more accessible in the last 20 years than at any point in history, though not through ‘amateur reading’.
The problem isn’t access to information but learning how to evaluate it critically - and that brings us back to universities (and Humanities)
The problem isn’t access to information but learning how to evaluate it critically - and that brings us back to universities (and Humanities)
June 30, 2026 at 9:37 AM
Also working-class autodidacts didn't just read alone - they read in groups, set up libraries and reading rooms, and battled for Mechanics' Institutes (many long ago merged into unis) to teach music, history, and politics. They built the public adult education infrastructure that's being destroyed
GOOD autodidacts READ AND UNDERSTAND PRIOR ART
this is more like fandom
this is more like fandom
June 11, 2026 at 2:51 AM
GOOD autodidacts READ AND UNDERSTAND PRIOR ART
this is more like fandom
this is more like fandom
Autodidacts treat for lunch (cake mix and water eaten with a spoon)
July 13, 2026 at 7:17 PM
Autodidacts treat for lunch (cake mix and water eaten with a spoon)
This belief in SV is rampant because college computer science education is bad. Not useless but deeply flawed to the point that autodidacts outdo it rather more often than should be possible.
what a miserable conception of human existence from a DeepMind guy
July 6, 2025 at 12:53 PM
This belief in SV is rampant because college computer science education is bad. Not useless but deeply flawed to the point that autodidacts outdo it rather more often than should be possible.
Autodidacts can totally be experts but when they are you can usually point to a project that unambiguously demonstrates it
September 27, 2026 at 8:26 PM
Autodidacts can totally be experts but when they are you can usually point to a project that unambiguously demonstrates it
I often think about @tressiemcphd.bsky.social's description of how all these "innovations" are geared towards the ways "roaming autodidacts" think they've learned things, at the expense of...well, everyone else.
June 25, 2025 at 1:38 PM
I often think about @tressiemcphd.bsky.social's description of how all these "innovations" are geared towards the ways "roaming autodidacts" think they've learned things, at the expense of...well, everyone else.
Bear traps for autodidacts
April 25, 2024 at 12:01 AM
Bear traps for autodidacts
But autodidacts!
June 11, 2026 at 2:51 AM
But autodidacts!
We need to bring the concept of autodidacts back into circulation—those who learn things for the pure joy of learning—the idea that you don’t have to be formally schooled to educate yourself. The word “amateur” comes from the Latin for “love,” and to learn is to love.
February 24, 2025 at 7:09 PM
We need to bring the concept of autodidacts back into circulation—those who learn things for the pure joy of learning—the idea that you don’t have to be formally schooled to educate yourself. The word “amateur” comes from the Latin for “love,” and to learn is to love.