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.2019 May 21, Israel Alves Corrêa Noletto, Sebastião Alves Teixeira Lopes, “Language and ideology: glossopoesis as a secondary narrative framework in Le Guin’s The dispossessed”, in Acta Scientiarum. Language and Culture, volume 41, number 2, →DOI:
Helpfulness of self-critiques for synthetic tasks, according to a critique validity oracle.2022 June 12, William Saunders, Catherine Yeh, Jeff Wu, Steven Bills, Long Ouyang, Jonathan Ward, Jan Leike, “Self-critiquing models for assisting human evaluators”, in arXiv, page 11:
self-critique
verb
Etymology From self- + critique.
1
Ambitransitive To criticize oneself or something created by oneself.
When I’m self-critiquing my work in progress, I’m checking to see if I have created a good composition.2017 May 18, Clara Nartey, “How Self-Critiquing Your Artwork Makes You Grow”, in Clara Nartey:
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.2022 June 12, William Saunders, Catherine Yeh, Jeff Wu, Steven Bills, Long Ouyang, Jonathan Ward, Jan Leike, “Self-critiquing models for assisting human evaluators”, in arXiv, page 9: