And we all know some people that rationalise poor choices and misbehavior, hide their mistakes, etc, to an unacceptable degree. Sometimes the individual knows they are rationalising but continues anyway, other times they seem incapable of seeing that.

When you ask people who are rationalising poor behaviour about the scenario, but it is someone else doing it, they may arrive at a better answer. Can we use multiple LLMs to achieve self criticism and critical thinking?

Tangent on the tangent: I think that's true in a minority of cases and in a majority of AI cases. Though in principle I think it should be possible for an LLM to have access to and faithfully represent its own reasoning.