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File: a258bb00ff9dd47⋯.jpg (33.28 KB,500x500,1:1,autodidact-day.jpg)

 No.7843

Can reading LW and SSC substitute for a university education?

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 No.7844

Depends on what you mean. The human capital gains from education are marginal, so it's obviously very easy to match it with self-learning.

But education is all about the signaling, and "I read SSC" doesn't substitute for a degree on your CV.

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 No.7845

>>7843

No, since they're not even in the same product category/covering the same topics.

Get out of here with your trollish bullshit.

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 No.7846

Autodidact Bullshit OP Mini-FAQ:

I. "I have no money and want a liberal arts education."

Here you go. http://www.sjc.edu/files/6914/3690/4783/Reading_list_F15_1.pdf

If you do that you're going to miss out on the group discussions, it's also not the complete liberal arts education package which at St. John's includes some set theory and important mathematics. Among other things.

But that's the core of it.

Most of those books are in the public domain, if you want to get copies try Project Gutenberg (http://www.gutenberg.org/), the Internet Archive (http://www.archive.org/), or Google Books. You can also probably find copies at your local library if you're insistent on dead tree.

If you would prefer audiobooks there is also librevox: https://librivox.org/

II. "Isn't St. John's a religious school? I'm a hardcore ideological atheist."

K. https://www.edx.org/ MIT has you covered.

III. "I have no money and I want a STEM education."

Textbook piracy sites such as libgen have you covered, ask around.

There is also MIT's edX (https://www.edx.org), as mentioned before.

There is also MIT's OpenCourseWare which can be found at the Internet Archive. (https://archive.org/details/mit_ocw)

I'd be remiss not to mention Coursera, which is Stanfords MOOC offering: https://www.coursera.org/

IIII. "So will this get me a job?"

People don't actually optimize for competence when hiring, they optimize for proxies of competence. In general doing this will make you more competent but it won't give you any more proxies for competence.

So no.

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 No.7847

>>7846

Thank you based anon

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 No.7848

>>7845

>not covering the same topics

>extensive treatment of philosophy, psychology, game theory, statistics, sociology, programming, and quantum mechanics

Nigga please.

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 No.7849

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>>7848

>extensive

You mean pop-sci level treatment from a weird jewish dude who often gets a lot of it WRONG.

Also, when the fuck does actual sociology or programming content make an appearance in the sequences?

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 No.7850

>>7849

>pop-sci level treatment

Same level you get from undergrad.

>when the fuck does actual sociology or programming content make an appearance in the sequences?

Learn to read you illiterate dipshit. OP mentions both LW AND SSC, so we are considering both the sequences and the library.

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 No.7851

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 No.7852

>>7846

Eh, programming is indeed not taught in LessWrong or SSC.

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 No.7853

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 No.7854

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 No.7855

>>7844

>But education is all about the signaling, and "I read SSC" doesn't substitute for a degree on your CV.

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