Directionally agreed re self-practice teaching valuable skills
Nit 1: your premise here seems to be that you actually succeed in the end + are self-aware enough to be able to identify what you did ‘right’. In which case, yeah, chances are you probably didn’t need the help.
Nit 2: Even in the specific case you outline, I still think “learning to extrapolate skills from successful demonstrations” is easier than “learning what not to do through repeated failure”.
Directionally agreed re self-practice teaching valuable skills
Nit 1: your premise here seems to be that you actually succeed in the end + are self-aware enough to be able to identify what you did ‘right’. In which case, yeah, chances are you probably didn’t need the help.
Nit 2: Even in the specific case you outline, I still think “learning to extrapolate skills from successful demonstrations” is easier than “learning what not to do through repeated failure”.