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PhilGoetz comments on Don't estimate your creative intelligence by your critical intelligence - Less Wrong Discussion

39 Post author: PhilGoetz 05 February 2015 02:41AM

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Comment author: PhilGoetz 05 February 2015 04:38:00AM 4 points [-]

I'm not sure what that means. If I write an article and find no errors in it, am I a great writer, or a lousy critic?

Comment author: ike 05 February 2015 05:02:43AM 0 points [-]

It's hard to know. If others found problems, then you're a bad self-critic. If others didn't find problems, you're a good writer, but we don't know about your critic abilities.

What I meant was really along the lines of comparing how good your self-criticism is of stuff you've written a long time ago with your criticism of others. If you're better at criticising others (my guess), then you could try to account for that deficit when comparing that to your writing ability. I don't know how far that will get you.

I agree that it can't be compared directly.