Introduction to Critical Fallibilism

I’m doing a close reading of this article.

This outline has a few additional comments by me, so it isn’t only trying to represent the article.

CF inspiration outline:

  • CR
    • we’re fallible.
      • we make mistakes and cannot guarantee truth
    • learn by critical discussion
    • learning is an evolutionary process
      • improves by error correction, not positive justification (not adding points)
  • TOC
    • focus on constraints to achieve goals
      • bottlenecks and limiting factors
    • most factors have excess capacity
      • optimization is wasted on these factors
      • local optima vs global optima
    • buffers can help you deal with variance
    • finding silver bullets using inherent simplicity
  • Objectivism
    • proper learning involves integration and automatization
      • limited capacity of active memory/thinking requires that multiple simpler ideas are integrated into a single more complex conceptual unit.
        • I think you can also call it abstraction. can think about difference between abstraction and integration
        • automatization also helps the limited capacity by taking off load and reducing errors
          • happens by practicing
    • CS
      • digital systems are fundamentally better than analog systems at error correction

I haven’t started reading past the first heading.

This took 20 minutes.

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