Relating CF to Video Games[Dface]

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The following quote is from the article Judging and Fixing Your Own Errors :

@Elliot

You can also make a goal that’s too easy and unambitious like “I want the ball to go forward when I throw it”. Unless you’ve never thrown a ball before, that’s something you can already do, and it will give you no guidance about what improvements are worth making (since you’re already able to achieve the goal, no improvements matter according to that goal).

I want to try making trivial goals in Minecraft so I can see how they work and maybe I can understand more ambitious goals.

I tried making a trivial goal in Minecraft like move forward 5 blocks, but it was actually a little hard. I didn’t know if I was gonna move to the fifth block from me or five blocks forward. It was also difficult to tell what was the last block to stand on cuz the terrain kind of blends and is funky. I’m in the nether.

I had to do some improvements like learn to count each block im moving by. I had to think about how many blocks is 5 blocks forward? That was kind of hard

So i think a trivial goal then would be: Move forward in Minecraft

That’s like the goal from the quote above:

@Elliot

“I want the ball to go forward when I throw it”.

I think moving forward in Minecraft is too easy and unambitious cuz I know how to walk around in minecraft. I don’t even have to think at all about about how to do it. I’m not doing too many things at once that I might fail at. I’m not striving to achieve a bigger goal of mine while doing it. Something that may involve failure as well.

Here’s the next sentence of the quoted paragraph above:

@Elliot

Unless you’ve never thrown a ball before, that’s something you can already do, and it will give you no guidance about what improvements are worth making (since you’re already able to achieve the goal, no improvements matter according to that goal).

First clause:

@Elliot

Unless you’ve never thrown a ball before,

I know how to walk in minecraft so this sentence applies to me.

@Elliot

that’s something you can already do,

I can already walk in minecraft. As well as crafting a pickaxe, sword, bread, and other things. I can already kill mobs with a sword.

Next clause:

@Elliot

and it will give you no guidance about what improvements are worth making (since you’re already able to achieve the goal, no improvements matter according to that goal).

Walking forward in minecraft as a goal doesn’t give me any guidance about what improvements are worth making. Maybe adding the fact that im in the nether does give me some guidance cuz I wanna not get killed by all the dangerous mobs there too.

The goal: walk forward in the nether might give some guidance. I’m kind of scared to walk around there without getting shot by a ghast.