# Dface's Discussion of "Judging and Fixing Your Own Errors"

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**Author:** ![Dface](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/user_avatar/discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/dface/32/3926_2.png) [@Dface](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/u/Dface)\
**Post date:** [August 13, 2026, 12:39am UTC](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/dfaces-discussion-of-judging-and-fixing-your-own-errors/2229/43 "2026-08-13T00:39:21Z")

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> > [@Judging and Fixing Your Own Errors](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/judging-and-fixing-your-own-errors/492/1):
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> > You can think of many goals, evaluate which plans/solutions will succeed and fail at which goals, and decide which goals you’ll actually pursue in your life. That’s a big improvement over having one vague goal. Deciding on clear goals, and using binary goals (goals that label all outcomes as either success or failure), lets you figure out which issues/problems/errors are actually relevant and important.

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> [@Judging and Fixing Your Own Errors](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/judging-and-fixing-your-own-errors/492/1):
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> Deciding on clear goals, and using binary goals (goals that label all outcomes as either success or failure), lets you figure out which issues/problems/errors are actually relevant and important.

I see that there’s gotta be a difference between “clear goals” and “binary goals”. I haven’t seen those terms close to each other so it has me thinking them. It’s hard to describe the goals like each of their definitions

I see that you can decide on clear goals. I don’t think that’s deciding if you want those goals to be your goals? I think it may tho be cuz if you use binary goals and then figure out which errors are important then those are already your goals. Idk really

Idk what this is:

> [@Judging and Fixing Your Own Errors](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/judging-and-fixing-your-own-errors/492/1):
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> and using binary goals (goals that label all outcomes as either success or failure),

how do you use binary goals? Is knowing which plans/solutions succeed or fail at which goals?

Also I see that there’s a definition for binary goals in the quote:

> [@Judging and Fixing Your Own Errors](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/judging-and-fixing-your-own-errors/492/1):
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> (goals that label all outcomes as either success or failure)

I think that’s a definition. Binary goals do what’s said in the quote above

That’s different than when I tried to define binary goals:

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> Binary goal means a goal that can be judged as successful or failure. There’s two outcomes to it.

I use the word “outcomes” and ET’s quote uses the word “outcomes” too. They seem to have different uses. In ET’s quote the adjective “all” is used to describe “outcomes”. That probably means there’s more than two outcomes. What matters I think is judging the outcomes as success or failure. That’s what binary about binary goals. “Outcomes” to me sounds like when you do a plan/solution and then you see the results. Anything you do for a binary goal will tell you if you succeeded or failed. That’s cool.

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