Have you read criticism of criticism of criticism? It, in my view, argues strongly that generic criticism is far more suboptimal than your comment makes it seem you believe. Here’s my favourite part of the piece where it touches on the differences between generic (e.g. racism in psychiatry) and specific (e.g. esketamine critique) criticism:
All of these are the opposite of the racism critique: they’re minor, finicky points entirely within the current paradigm that don’t challenge any foundational assumptions at all.
But you can actually start fights if you bring them up, instead of getting people to nod along and smile vacuously.
The racism critique doesn’t imply any specific person is doing any specific thing wrong. Certainly not you! It doesn’t demand any specific response except maybe more awareness, saying the right slogans, and maybe having some other person form a committee to make meaningless changes to some set of bylaws. But the esketamine critique actually demands that you in particular go out and learn about a different medication which is kind of scary and could get you in trouble if you use it wrong. It implies that you personally are failing patients, in a way that some other doctors aren’t failing patients. Maybe it means those other doctors are better than you! And so the knives come out.
Generic or not, I think more importantly is that criticism with generic suggestions tend to be less helpful, albeit sounding good. For example, saying that EA could be more diverse is easy, giving actionable solutions to how to make it more diverse is more useful (especially when the solutions provided are designed to fit EA’s specific culture and challenges), but nuanced and harder to solve.
I do think ChatGPT has the capability to solve such questions, but it requires a lot of follow up questions worded in a specific way to output something that’s not generic, as of now.
There’s nothing wrong with giving the generic criticism when it’s true and is being actively ignored.
Have you read criticism of criticism of criticism? It, in my view, argues strongly that generic criticism is far more suboptimal than your comment makes it seem you believe. Here’s my favourite part of the piece where it touches on the differences between generic (e.g. racism in psychiatry) and specific (e.g. esketamine critique) criticism:
It’s possible to make the same criticism in a less generic way.
Generic or not, I think more importantly is that criticism with generic suggestions tend to be less helpful, albeit sounding good. For example, saying that EA could be more diverse is easy, giving actionable solutions to how to make it more diverse is more useful (especially when the solutions provided are designed to fit EA’s specific culture and challenges), but nuanced and harder to solve.
I do think ChatGPT has the capability to solve such questions, but it requires a lot of follow up questions worded in a specific way to output something that’s not generic, as of now.