I’ve gotten howled at before for saying so, but I’ll say it again: techbro cults like that are infested with self-described “autodidacts” which is a fancy way of saying “doesn’t actually fucking know what they profess to know but will bumblefuck anyway, sometimes boosted by venture capital”

Yeah, it’s fucked up, but even mocking the idea of “autodidacts” and all the harm the particularly rich ones cause is somehow upsetting to a certain bunch. It’s like I become the gestalt manifestation of every wicked petty tyrant teacher that ever gave someone detention, my power only being potentially challenged by awesome radical rebels that say “actually I am an ‘autodidact’ and I already know everything” or something. Those rebels without a clue tend to have a belief that they can easily distinguish reality entirely for themselves without even an acknowledgement of the accumulated knowledge and expertise of everyone that came before. No wonder such smug-yet-credulous folks tend to fall for snake oil salesmen so easily.