Self-critique

It appears that Le Guin is promoting a sort of self-critique on her own ideology. Interestingly, although the story does give such an impression, the problematic characteristics of the Anarresti society are far more severe than economic scarcities or isolation.

Helpfulness of self-critiques for synthetic tasks, according to a critique validity oracle.

When I’m self-critiquing my work in progress, I’m checking to see if I have created a good composition.

Larger models’ critiques are rated as more helpful by humans. This holds even if making the answer distribution correspondingly difficult to critique by asking them to self-critique.