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7 Post author: VipulNaik 15 September 2013 12:45AM

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Comment author: roland 15 September 2013 12:43:06PM 5 points [-]

Why is this specific to autodidacticism? I went through school and college without ever learning anything about the valuable content here on LW.

Comment author: roystgnr 15 September 2013 03:37:14PM 4 points [-]

It's not specific to autodidacticism, just likely to be exacerbated by autodidacticism. The set of things you don't know you don't know is always a superset (usually a strict superset) of the set of things that you, your professors, your textbook authors, your curriculum designers, etc. all don't know you don't know.