Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on The Importance of Self-Doubt - Less Wrong
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Er... I can't help but notice a certain humor in the idea that it's terrible if I'm self-deluded about my own importance because that means I might destroy the world.
Yes, there is is a certain humor. But I hope you did read the dot points and followed the reasoning. It, among other things, suggests a potential benefit of criticism such as multi's aside from hypothetical benefits of discrediting you should it have been the case that you were not, in fact, competent.
It's some sort of mutant version of "just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you".