I don’t have a comprehensive definition of constructive criticism—I know it when I see it. Presenting solutions is not necessary for constructive criticism.
To take a stab at defining it, constructive criticism is about optimizing the alignment between proposed methods and true goals given the resources available. Non-constructive criticism may be actively worsening the alignment, but it could also just be inefficient. The risk of inefficiency is the issue I’ve been pointing out above.
I don’t have a comprehensive definition of constructive criticism—I know it when I see it.
Without claiming that this is necessarily un-virtuous, I hope that you can see how this sort of thing is evidence for the claim that “constructive criticism” is not primarily a good criterion for truth-seeking, but rather is primarily a weapon for suppression of criticism.
To take a stab at defining it, constructive criticism is about optimizing the alignment between proposed methods and true goals given the resources available.
I confess that I have no idea what exactly you could mean by this. I think that it would be most helpful if you could supplement this intensional definition with an extensional one.
I don’t have a comprehensive definition of constructive criticism—I know it when I see it. Presenting solutions is not necessary for constructive criticism.
To take a stab at defining it, constructive criticism is about optimizing the alignment between proposed methods and true goals given the resources available. Non-constructive criticism may be actively worsening the alignment, but it could also just be inefficient. The risk of inefficiency is the issue I’ve been pointing out above.
Without claiming that this is necessarily un-virtuous, I hope that you can see how this sort of thing is evidence for the claim that “constructive criticism” is not primarily a good criterion for truth-seeking, but rather is primarily a weapon for suppression of criticism.
I confess that I have no idea what exactly you could mean by this. I think that it would be most helpful if you could supplement this intensional definition with an extensional one.