# Replying to "Postmortems Help Address Causes of Errors" \[Dface\]

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**Created:** [August 28, 2026, 9:46pm UTC](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/replying-to-postmortems-help-address-causes-of-errors-dface/2235 "2026-08-28T21:46:59Z")
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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: [September 6, 2026, 10:01pm UTC](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/replying-to-postmortems-help-address-causes-of-errors-dface/2235/43 "2026-09-06T22:01:25Z")

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> [@Postmortems Help Address Causes of Errors](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/postmortems-help-address-causes-of-errors/2202/1):
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> > [@Postmortems Help Address Causes of Errors](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/postmortems-help-address-causes-of-errors/2202/1):
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> > Not fixing your errors in a serious way means you keep making them, which takes up a lot of time and energy, in addition to causing failures at goals you have.
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> An error wouldn’t be an error if it didn’t cause failure at a goal you have. Like, if you didn’t have a goal and an error causes it to fail then that’s not an error for you. You can choose a goal that doesn’t fail due to an error.
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> If the errors are yours then if you don’t fix them they’ll keep causing failures at goals you have. If those errors were fixed then they wouldn’t cause failure at goals you have. That’s why they’re your errors.

Can I explain this to a friend? How would I do that? I think I would talk about a relatable example, like something they already do so they can understand.

If my friend worked in fast food I would tell them this: So an error is when you make a mistake. Like, you forget to start the fryer with the food inside or you give the customer the wrong drinks. What the article is saying that if you don’t fix these kinds of errors you make then you’re going to keep making them. You’re going to keep forgetting to do stuff or you’re going to keep reading the directions wrong. Your goals are to read stuff correctly not just give the correct drinks to the customer.

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