I think you’re parsing it very literally. This was an in person conversation with much less strict rules of construction.
I took it to mean: there’s a lore in the rationality community that criticism is good because it helps you improve, contrary to the general feeling that it’s bad because it hurts your reputation.
It’s presented out of order because there’s a conversation going on where the speaker only has a rough idea they want to communicate and they’re putting it into words as they go, and there’s non-verbal feedback going on in the process we can’t see.
When I imagine myself in Metz’s position I expect he would take this same meaning, and I therefore think it’s likely a lot of other readers would take the same meaning. I think the only major ambiguity exists when readers parse it as something different than a transcript.
I think you’re parsing it very literally. This was an in person conversation with much less strict rules of construction.
I took it to mean: there’s a lore in the rationality community that criticism is good because it helps you improve, contrary to the general feeling that it’s bad because it hurts your reputation.
It’s presented out of order because there’s a conversation going on where the speaker only has a rough idea they want to communicate and they’re putting it into words as they go, and there’s non-verbal feedback going on in the process we can’t see.
When I imagine myself in Metz’s position I expect he would take this same meaning, and I therefore think it’s likely a lot of other readers would take the same meaning. I think the only major ambiguity exists when readers parse it as something different than a transcript.