But the plans I’ve seen are all fairly one sided: all upside goes to the criticized, all the extra work goes to the critic.
I see a pretty important benefit to the critic, because you’re ensuring that there isn’t some obvious response to your criticisms that you are missing.
I once posted something that revised/criticized an Open Philanthropy model, without running it by anyone there, and it turned out that my conclusions were shifted dramatically by a coding error that was detected immediately in the comments.
That’s a particularly dramatic example that I don’t expect to generalize, but often if a criticism goes “X organization does something bad” the natural question is, why do they do that? Is there a reason that’s obvious in hindsight that they’ve thought about a lot, but I haven’t? Maybe there isn’t, but I would want to run a criticism by them just to see if that’s the case.
I don’t think people are obligated to build in the feedback they get extensively if they don’t think it’s valid/their point still stands.
I don’t have any disagreement with getting people information early, I just think characterizing the current system as one where only the criticizee benefits is wrong.
I see a pretty important benefit to the critic, because you’re ensuring that there isn’t some obvious response to your criticisms that you are missing.
I once posted something that revised/criticized an Open Philanthropy model, without running it by anyone there, and it turned out that my conclusions were shifted dramatically by a coding error that was detected immediately in the comments.
That’s a particularly dramatic example that I don’t expect to generalize, but often if a criticism goes “X organization does something bad” the natural question is, why do they do that? Is there a reason that’s obvious in hindsight that they’ve thought about a lot, but I haven’t? Maybe there isn’t, but I would want to run a criticism by them just to see if that’s the case.
I don’t think people are obligated to build in the feedback they get extensively if they don’t think it’s valid/their point still stands.
This seems like a good argument against not asking, but a bad argument against getting people information as early as possible.
I don’t have any disagreement with getting people information early, I just think characterizing the current system as one where only the criticizee benefits is wrong.