There's also a useful version of such critical remarks which can be made. One wants two things: (a) remarks which help people understand their own potential better; and (b) remarks which help people better understand what's involved in working in a particular field.
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Replying to @michael_nielsen
(b) is useful. (a) is (in intellectual fields) impossible to know. One of many reasons for focusing on fun rather than prophecy.
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Replying to @DavidDeutschOxf
I think (a) can be useful when someone's potential is opaque to them. I've known so many people who think they "shouldn't" be interested in something (usually because it's low status among their friends). Eg a physicist friend just loved putting on a show, theatre, & explaining
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physics. But he was a bit embarrassed by all this. We talked a _lot_ about it, and I think I (and many others) helped him gradually realize that these were things to be proud of, and build on, not embarrassed by. He now works as a science communicator.
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