[Dface]Yes or No Philosophy Course Check Your Understanding

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(here). If I see something I can practice that’s relevant to the course, I’ll practice it here too.
Goal:
Try to relate prerequisites to larger content.

CF Relevance:
Learning Y/N philosophy helps with learning CF philosophy.

I’m gonna try to answer the first check your understanding question:
What is the standard view about how to judge ideas? What’s wrong with it?

I think the standard view of about how to judge ideas is using support or amount to pick which ideas are better.

What’s wrong with it? That’s a little hard to answer but I think what’s wrong is that when you pick a better idea over a good one, how do you know that you’re making the right choice? You have two ideas that are at least good. Does picking the better idea not make the good idea bad? I don’t know

I’m gonna practice using support for irl things to give me more insight in how it works. That way I can argue for it or against it:

What should I eat for breakfast?:

Do ghosts exist?:

What kind of pet should I get?:

What I learned:

  • It’s inconclusive when assigning points to a node. Like it would be good to know if a node was really worth any points at all
  • It feels so random in the end when tallying up points for arguments. Like if I get more points for an argument I don’t like, then I’ll want to revaluate some nodes.
  • All the trees are about what I would want. I wonder how hectic it could though get for something that’s more complex.
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Some examples FYI.

Method advice:

https://theproductmanager.com/topics/weighted-scoring-model/

Cars having many individual factors scored out of 10:

https://www.edmunds.com/ford/f-150/2024/

I’m gonna try using the weighted scoring model found in the link.

I’ll try practicing the first step:

  1. List your criteria: Every product or project has a unique set of criteria. From functionality and pricing to sustainability and personal data concerns, list out everything that’s important.

Buying a new imac:

buying a pet fish:

buying a nissan sentra:

What I learned:
Unless you already purchased a similar product before, you gotta for sure look up some important factors before you buy something.