Applauding with the audience may have been meant as a sign of humility or marxis...

SagelyGuru on Jan 17, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: 2017 Levchin Prize for Real World Cryptography

Applauding with the audience may have been meant as a sign of humility or marxist fatalism. However, by Occam's razor, it comes across as what it looks like: the speaker applauding himself.