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At this point you are being somewhat mean. It does look like honest sloppy writing on his part. With a minimum of goodwill I can accept that he meant "effectively maximizing the expectation of". Also, it would still be somewhat interesting if only precisely one function could be maximizied - at least some local value manipulations could be possible, after all. So it is not that obvious.
About autodidacts - the problem here is that even getting education in some reputed place can still leave you with a lot of skipped fundamentals.
If he means effectively maximizing the expectation of, then there is nothing mysterious about different levels of 'effectively' being available for different functions and his rhetorical point with 'mysteriously' falls apart.
I agree that education also allows for skipped fundamentals. Self education can be good if one has good external critique, such as learning to program and having computer tell you when you're wrong. Blogging, not so much. Internal critique is possible but rarely works, and doesn't work for things that are in the slightest bit non rigorous.