On: Epistemic Learned Helplessness (2013)

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This piece would be better without all the preemptive self-congratulations.

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For how good he actually is, he's actually being quite humble.

And more importantly, the goal is not to make himself look good, but to relate a point as he experienced it.

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It would.

But it is a repost from livejournal, so it's probably over 10 years old. I can understand not wanting to rewrite it.

His newer writing is not like this. On the other hand, his newer writing is not so short.