# Friendly **URL:** https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/c/other/friendly/10.md [Latest](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/tags.md) --- ## [About the Friendly category](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/about-the-friendly-category/37)
**Author:** [@Elliot](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/u/Elliot)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [May 6, 2021, 5:57am UTC](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/about-the-friendly-category/37 "2021-05-06T05:57:40Z")
Discuss, think and learn with a friendlier atmosphere. Avoid tangential, meta, indirect, personal or harsh criticism. Topics must be related to CF. You can talk about CF philosophy itself, apply CF ideas, or use CF meth… --- ## [Replying to "Overthinking and Perfectionism"\[Dface\]](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/replying-to-overthinking-and-perfectionism-dface/2240)
**Author:** [@Dface](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/u/Dface)\ **Replies:** 37\ **Last updated:** [September 28, 2026, 11:20pm UTC](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/replying-to-overthinking-and-perfectionism-dface/2240 "2026-09-28T23:20:39Z")
Topic Summary: I’ll reply to individual sentences from the article. Overthinking is an interesting thing to me cuz I think I do it a certain amount. It would be nice to learn about it more. Here’s a link to the article: … --- ## [Replying to "Errors Merit Post-Mortems"\[Dface\]](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/replying-to-errors-merit-post-mortems-dface/2239)
**Author:** [@Dface](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/u/Dface)\ **Replies:** 38\ **Last updated:** [September 25, 2026, 11:15pm UTC](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/replying-to-errors-merit-post-mortems-dface/2239 "2026-09-25T23:15:24Z")
Topic Summary: I’ll be getting quotes from the article and replying to them. I think I’m going to also reply to the comments. There’s comments about actual intellectual postmortems. Here’s the article: Goal: Learn a… --- ## [Replying to "The Prerequisites of Debate"\[Dface\]](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/replying-to-the-prerequisites-of-debate-dface/2243)
**Author:** [@Dface](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/u/Dface)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [September 25, 2026, 7:10am UTC](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/replying-to-the-prerequisites-of-debate-dface/2243 "2026-09-25T07:10:04Z")
Topic Summary: I’m gonna write about the article “The Prerequisites of Debate”. It’ll be my thoughts and about the meaning of sentences. Here’s the article: Goal: Learn about debates, like what you need to start one… --- ## [Dface's Discussion About "How I Write a Lot"](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/dfaces-discussion-about-how-i-write-a-lot/2230)
**Author:** [@Dface](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/u/Dface)\ **Replies:** 15\ **Last updated:** [September 24, 2026, 7:18pm UTC](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/dfaces-discussion-about-how-i-write-a-lot/2230 "2026-09-24T19:18:29Z")
Topic Summary: Discuss the article, “How I Write a Lot,” here Goal: Learn more about writing CF Relevance: Writing is important to philosphy Edit: Here’s the link to the article: How I Write a Lot --- ## [Replying to "Postmortems Help Address Causes of Errors" \[Dface\]](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/replying-to-postmortems-help-address-causes-of-errors-dface/2235)
**Author:** [@Dface](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/u/Dface)\ **Replies:** 71\ **Last updated:** [September 14, 2026, 4:00pm UTC](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/replying-to-postmortems-help-address-causes-of-errors-dface/2235 "2026-09-14T16:00:11Z")
Continuing the discussion from Postmortems Help Address Causes of Errors: I want to write about this aritcle to learn more about errors. I wrote some replies already so I’ll reply to those too to compare. --- ## [Relating CF to Video Games\[Dface\]](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/relating-cf-to-video-games-dface/2226)
**Author:** [@Dface](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/u/Dface)\ **Replies:** 26\ **Last updated:** [September 13, 2026, 9:38pm UTC](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/relating-cf-to-video-games-dface/2226 "2026-09-13T21:38:20Z")
Topic Summary: Play video games and apply CF topics to them. I wanna practice CF ideas while playing video games. I want to write about what I found Goal: Relate CF to video games. Learn more about any CF topic and ex… --- ## [Replying to "Cycle Between Learning Critical Fallibilism and Its Prerequisites"\[Dface\]](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/replying-to-cycle-between-learning-critical-fallibilism-and-its-prerequisites-dface/2231)
**Author:** [@Dface](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/u/Dface)\ **Replies:** 87\ **Last updated:** [September 8, 2026, 1:36am UTC](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/replying-to-cycle-between-learning-critical-fallibilism-and-its-prerequisites-dface/2231 "2026-09-08T01:36:44Z")
Continuing the discussion from Cycle Between Learning Critical Fallibilism and Its Prerequisites: I’ll be discussing this article here --- ## [Replying to "Objective Knowledge" Chapter 1](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/replying-to-objective-knowledge-chapter-1/2233)
**Author:** [@Dface](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/u/Dface)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [August 29, 2026, 3:05am UTC](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/replying-to-objective-knowledge-chapter-1/2233 "2026-08-29T03:05:44Z")
Topic Summary: Imma follow along Karl Popper’s book Objective Knowledge: An Evolutionary Approach. I’ll go over the first chapter here. Goal: Learn about Induction, what Karl Popper says about it, and what his philoso… --- ## [Dface's Discussion of "Judging and Fixing Your Own Errors"](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/dfaces-discussion-of-judging-and-fixing-your-own-errors/2229)
**Author:** [@Dface](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/u/Dface)\ **Replies:** 56\ **Last updated:** [August 16, 2026, 12:27am UTC](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/dfaces-discussion-of-judging-and-fixing-your-own-errors/2229 "2026-08-16T00:27:44Z")
Topic Summary: Here I’ll discuss the following article: Judging and Fixing Your Own Errors Goal: Write and think more about the topic CF Relevance: Learn about judging your own errors --- ## [\[Dface\] Discussion of Introduction to Theory of Constraints](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/dface-discussion-of-introduction-to-theory-of-constraints/2036)
**Author:** [@Dface](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/u/Dface)\ **Replies:** 39\ **Last updated:** [March 6, 2026, 6:58am UTC](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/dface-discussion-of-introduction-to-theory-of-constraints/2036 "2026-03-06T06:58:44Z")
Topic Summary: Discussion of TOC about where to start. Goal: Want to start discussion on TOC cuz I wanna see if I can use it in my life and get some practice. CF Relevance: TOC is part of CF I wanna try using some … --- ## [Dface Posts about CF on Social Media](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/dface-posts-about-cf-on-social-media/2151)
**Author:** [@Dface](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/u/Dface)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [February 13, 2026, 1:51am UTC](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/dface-posts-about-cf-on-social-media/2151 "2026-02-13T01:51:47Z")
Topic Summary: I’m sharing what I want to post on social media. Goal: Get better at promoting CF and learn about it. CF Relevance: Understand the philosophy and how it applies to life --- ## [Jarrod Tries to Understand Decisive vs Weighty Arguments & Binary Epistemology](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/jarrod-tries-to-understand-decisive-vs-weighty-arguments-binary-epistemology/2131)
**Author:** [@Jarrod](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/u/Jarrod)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [November 21, 2025, 5:23pm UTC](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/jarrod-tries-to-understand-decisive-vs-weighty-arguments-binary-epistemology/2131 "2025-11-21T17:23:05Z")
I was talking to someone about CF (after they saw point 3 of Jarrod’s Introduction to Elliot Temple) and they asked: I was wondering if you have seen any good examples of the process of applying the Decisive argument c… --- ## [Practice Discussion and Idea Trees\[Dface\]](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/practice-discussion-and-idea-trees-dface/2025)
**Author:** [@Dface](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/u/Dface)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [March 29, 2025, 12:12am UTC](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/practice-discussion-and-idea-trees-dface/2025 "2025-03-29T00:12:47Z")
Topic Summary: I’m going to use this thread to practice discussion trees and idea trees from ET’s article(link here). I’ll look at my past discussions and try to tree them. Goal: I want more practice with discussion a… --- ## [Crediting Critical Fallibalism in a Youtube Video](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/crediting-critical-fallibalism-in-a-youtube-video/1996)
**Author:** [@Dface](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/u/Dface)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [March 26, 2025, 3:52am UTC](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/crediting-critical-fallibalism-in-a-youtube-video/1996 "2025-03-26T03:52:28Z")
Topic Summary: Hello, I want to make Youtube videos on Marvel Rivals about improving your aim using a small skills approach. I’m planning on making small videos first and then maybe make a bigger more general video. For… --- ## [\[Dface\]Yes or No Philosophy Course Check Your Understanding](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/dface-yes-or-no-philosophy-course-check-your-understanding/1999)
**Author:** [@Dface](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/u/Dface)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [February 16, 2025, 9:20pm UTC](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/dface-yes-or-no-philosophy-course-check-your-understanding/1999 "2025-02-16T21:20:44Z")
Topic Summary: I read an article not that long ago about cycling between perquisites and CF philosophy(here). That sounds like a good idea. I want to check my understanding from the Y/N philosophy course on gumroad(her… --- ## [Vocab Test Idea For Learning](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/vocab-test-idea-for-learning/1983)
**Author:** [@Dface](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/u/Dface)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [December 9, 2024, 8:04am UTC](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/vocab-test-idea-for-learning/1983 "2024-12-09T08:04:18Z")
Topic Summary: Hi, I was thinking about getting better at writing in my self-help books topic. And I was thinking that I could get better at my vocabulary to describe things accurately. I have an idea for a vocab test.… --- ## [MC does subconscious analysis](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/mc-does-subconscious-analysis/1765)
**Author:** [@MetaCreation](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/u/MetaCreation)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [May 14, 2023, 10:07am UTC](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/mc-does-subconscious-analysis/1765 "2023-05-14T10:07:09Z")
Topic Summary: I’m going to write about self-reflection of my subconscious here. Goal: To have a self-contained topic for discussing my subconscious, my intuitions, my emotions. I think keeping this in one place will … --- ## [Thoughts about Conjectures&Refutations](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/thoughts-about-conjectures-refutations/1713)
**Author:** [@MetaCreation](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/u/MetaCreation)\ **Replies:** 19\ **Last updated:** [April 27, 2023, 9:35am UTC](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/thoughts-about-conjectures-refutations/1713 "2023-04-27T09:35:08Z")
Topic Summary: Talk about parts Conjectures & Refutations by Karl Popper. Goal: A thread for commenting on C&R. I started doing this in my mini-goal thread. This is a place to continue, having met my mini-goal. Hap… --- ## [Personal Story Sharing Thread](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/personal-story-sharing-thread/1732)
**Author:** [@Apricus](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/u/Apricus)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [March 1, 2023, 10:41pm UTC](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/personal-story-sharing-thread/1732 "2023-03-01T22:41:46Z")
Topic Summary: Share your life stories here! Interesting incidents, life lessons, cool people you met who taught you things, cool people you met who learnt things from you, incidents where you surprised yourself in how y… --- ## [Justin's posts discussing Stoic philosophy](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/justins-posts-discussing-stoic-philosophy/282)
**Author:** [@JustinCEO](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/u/JustinCEO)\ **Replies:** 28\ **Last updated:** [February 17, 2023, 10:24am UTC](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/justins-posts-discussing-stoic-philosophy/282 "2023-02-17T10:24:37Z")
Advice on how to be less reactive to insults from a stoic philosophy book: One particularly powerful sting-elimination strategy is to consider the source of an insult. If I respect the source, if I value his opinions, … --- ## [Meditation](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/meditation/152)
**Author:** [@JustinCEO](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/u/JustinCEO)\ **Replies:** 58\ **Last updated:** [December 6, 2022, 9:37pm UTC](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/meditation/152 "2022-12-06T21:37:44Z")
Came across this short talk in Sam Harris’ waking up app. I enjoyed it: (free preview is only part of talk but you can get a free month) Basically the idea is problems are inevitable in life and you should have a pos… --- ## [Tutoring Video Activities (renamed from June Learning)](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/tutoring-video-activities-renamed-from-june-learning/171)
**Author:** [@Elliot](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/u/Elliot)\ **Replies:** 59\ **Last updated:** [April 3, 2022, 2:31am UTC](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/tutoring-video-activities-renamed-from-june-learning/171 "2022-04-03T02:31:50Z")
This is a suggested learning activity for June 2021: Watch my tutoring videos and do the activities. You should do at least 75% of the activities. Don’t just keep watching and skip the activities. Activities include both… --- ## [Close Reading of "Yes or No Philosophy Summary"](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/close-reading-of-yes-or-no-philosophy-summary/325)
**Author:** [@deroj](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/u/deroj)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [January 27, 2022, 5:35pm UTC](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/close-reading-of-yes-or-no-philosophy-summary/325 "2022-01-27T17:35:25Z")
I am attempting to understand CF better by doing a close reading of “Yes or No Philosophy Summary” and asking questions, as recommended by Elliot. It rejects trying to figure out how much support, evidence or justifica… --- ## [Internetrules Reading and Commenting on Feynman Cargo Cult Lecture](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/internetrules-reading-and-commenting-on-feynman-cargo-cult-lecture/475)
**Author:** [@internetrules](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/u/internetrules)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [January 11, 2022, 4:19am UTC](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/internetrules-reading-and-commenting-on-feynman-cargo-cult-lecture/475 "2022-01-11T04:19:24Z")
Topic Summary: Me reading and posting comments about Feynman’s Cargo Cult lecture Goal: Post comments about the Feynman lecture. I will start a 30 minute timer when I create this topic and I want to write 5 messages bef… --- ## [Project plan and meta discussion for the project “Identify some social stuff in everyday life”](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/project-plan-and-meta-discussion-for-the-project-identify-some-social-stuff-in-everyday-life/348)
**Author:** [@AnneB](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/u/AnneB)\ **Replies:** 19\ **Last updated:** [November 13, 2021, 1:06pm UTC](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/project-plan-and-meta-discussion-for-the-project-identify-some-social-stuff-in-everyday-life/348 "2021-11-13T13:06:02Z")
What’s the project? I will write down everyday examples of people doing things for social reasons. I might say what I think the social reasons are. I could easily be wrong about the reasons. Some of these examples will … --- ## [Project: Identify some social stuff in everyday life](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/project-identify-some-social-stuff-in-everyday-life/367)
**Author:** [@AnneB](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/u/AnneB)\ **Replies:** 13\ **Last updated:** [November 12, 2021, 4:23pm UTC](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/project-identify-some-social-stuff-in-everyday-life/367 "2021-11-12T16:23:18Z")
I’ll use this thread to post the stuff I come up with in the project described in this post. My vision is that discussion about the examples should happen here, and meta discussion about the project or about anything el… --- ## [Nice Ayn Rand Quotes](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/nice-ayn-rand-quotes/70)
**Author:** [@JustinCEO](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/u/JustinCEO)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [November 3, 2021, 8:23pm UTC](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/nice-ayn-rand-quotes/70 "2021-11-03T20:23:27Z")
Here’s one from Atlas Shrugged: It seemed to her that the spirals of flame-tinged fog were drawing time into an odd circle—and while a dim thought went floating through her mind like the streamer of an unfollowed sente… --- ## [In what sense science is objective?](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/in-what-sense-science-is-objective/347)
**Author:** [@doubtingthomas](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/u/doubtingthomas)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [October 29, 2021, 7:09pm UTC](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/in-what-sense-science-is-objective/347 "2021-10-29T19:09:59Z")
Releavant links: https://curi.us/2451-human-problems-and-abstract-problems I am trying to understand what do people mean when they say science is objective and things like music and morality are not objective but… --- ## [Justin Does Math](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/justin-does-math/271)
**Author:** [@JustinCEO](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/u/JustinCEO)\ **Replies:** 216\ **Last updated:** [October 20, 2021, 5:36pm UTC](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/justin-does-math/271 "2021-10-20T17:36:38Z")
I posted about an algebra word problem on my blog [Next page](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/c/other/friendly/10.md?page=1)