For comparison, I did a lot of self-education, but also had a conventional education (ending with a BA in Computer Science). I think I was introduced to Bayesianism in a probability class in college, and it was also the background assumption in a couple of economics courses that I took for fun (Game Theory and Industrial Organization). It seems to me that choosing pure autodidacticism probably delayed Eliezer’s Bayesian enlightenment by at least a couple of years.
Re: autodidacticism & Bayesian enlightenment
For comparison, I did a lot of self-education, but also had a conventional education (ending with a BA in Computer Science). I think I was introduced to Bayesianism in a probability class in college, and it was also the background assumption in a couple of economics courses that I took for fun (Game Theory and Industrial Organization). It seems to me that choosing pure autodidacticism probably delayed Eliezer’s Bayesian enlightenment by at least a couple of years.