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The fear of public embarrassment can be a strong motivation to think more carefully about one's ideas. Without it, I think I will more often be tempted to make a comment or post without thinking through possible ways that I could be wrong. I'd like to preserve that motivation for myself as well as others, so let's not make the cost of publicly making a mistake too low.
In this thread, "mistakes" primarily means "old mistaken beliefs" rather than "careless/foolish comments".
The opening post talks about "publicly making a mistake", which I think meant making a post or comment that turns out to be wrong. (It also talks about admitting your mistakes, which I agree does refer to "old mistaken beliefs".) I suggest that we should feel some measure of embarrassment for making a post or comment that turns out to be wrong, even if it feels like (or appears as if) we were being careful/not foolish when we wrote it. The latter standard is too loose and subjective, hence easily rationalized away.