self-critique

English

Etymology

From self- +‎ critique.

Noun

self-critique (countable and uncountable, plural self-critiques)

1. self-criticism
   • 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^[1], volume 41, number 2, →DOI:

     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.

   • 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^[2], page 11:

     Helpfulness of self-critiques for synthetic tasks, according to a critique validity oracle.

Verb

self-critique (third-person singular simple present self-critiques, present participle self-critiquing, simple past and past participle self-critiqued)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To criticize oneself or something created by oneself.
   • 2017 May 18, Clara Nartey, “How Self-Critiquing Your Artwork Makes You Grow”, in Clara Nartey‎^[3]:

     When I’m self-critiquing my work in progress, I’m checking to see if I have created a good composition.

   • 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^[4], page 9:

     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.