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

[Dface]

@Elliot

To judge which errors are important well, you have to set appropriate goals. Say you’re trying to throw a ball to someone. What exactly is the goal? A reasonable goal is throwing it within arm’s reach of your partner. You might also want to throw it somewhere he can catch it if he runs. But you could have a goal of throwing it to an exact spot in the air in front of him. You could aim for millimeter precision or even literally perfect precision.

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@Elliot

To judge which errors are important well, you have to set appropriate goals.

You can judge something about errors well. I remember there’s a CF article talking about measuring vs. judging things. I forgot the difference.

I wonder what an appropriate goal is. If you set those then you can judge which error is important well.

I didnt think goals were so powerful. I thought goals were just things you set and have not much say about anything in particular. I think I never learned how good they could be. A part of me doesnt take them seriously. A part of me sees them as flimsy things. I dont think I know everything about goals so I dont want to judge.

I want to know why goals can help you deal with errors. I wanna know how appropriate goals can help you judge which errors are important well. I think I need to see appropriate goals work in action.