I'm not talking about gwern specifically. I'm talking about literally anyone. No one, not even gwern, is a completely rational, stoic being incapable of sliding

I'm not talking about gwern specifically. I'm talking about literally anyone. No one, not even gwern, is a completely rational, stoic being incapable of sliding backwards if constructive criticism is attenuated. There isn't a huge danger of gwern not getting enough constructive criticism. I'm sure they get a firehose of it. But this is a platform, and in this thread we're talking about the marginal effect of comments of a certain kind on the platform and the authors of contributions to the platform in general. Moreover, and for related reasons, we need more good faith scrutiny in this world. Unconditional love of this kind reduces and crowds out scrutiny.