When people post in the Unbounded section of my forum, and claim that they wanted unbounded discussion and criticism, I broadly don’t believe them. I tend to treat it like somewhat less bounded discussion.
Somewhat less bounded discussion often means I can bring up some discussion methodology and organization. Not an unlimited amount but some. I can say more meta than would work well in e.g. a Reddit discussion. Personal stuff is often problematic, though.
If I want to get to a state of wanting unbounded criticism should I share my emotional state after receiving criticism or making a mistake? Maybe writing it privately would be fine in itself, but I could get help from readers in dealing with the emotions. It would also be showing I how learned to want unbounded criticism and convince Elliot.
At first I thought “just spending thinking about criticism and mistakes will make you more comfortable with them,” but then I remember that people usually do think lots about their mistakes they make in social situations, and still they get about equally embarrassed each time they make a social mistake. I still think thinking about it rationally would help. When people analyze social mistakes it’s mostly about making sure they never make such a mistake ever again. If they thought more about the big picture and whether they should get embarrassed at all, then that would help them get less embarrassed.
Switching from making social mistakes to getting criticism:
If you thought rationally about how getting this criticism is fixing problems in your life and how it’s not a big deal to make errors as long as you’re error correcting faster, then that would improve your ability to deal with unbounded criticism.
Why focus on unbounded criticism now?
It’s important for innovation in fields like science and philosophy. And it’s one way to try to address being stuck. But if you’re currently making progress learning stuff, what do you need it right now for?
Before giving much thought to unbounded criticism, it’d make sense to get a lot of experience with regular criticism – e.g. participate in a bunch of regular debates/arguments/critical discussions. See how you like and handle that.
I thought you could make progress way faster that way.
OK, seems good.