I think that’s my true rejection, in the following sense: If I saw a sensible formal epistemology underlying modesty and I saw people who advocated modesty going on to outperform myself and others, accomplishing great deeds through the strength of their diffidence, then, indeed, I would start paying very serious attention to modesty.
Outperformance can include the avoidance of errors.
Outperformance can include the avoidance of errors.
Avoidance of errors? Is this like how one evaluates a portrai painter based on how closely he or she approximates a camera?