# Typos Megathread
**URL:** https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/typos-megathread/1695
**Category:** Other
**Tags:** elliot-temple
**Created:** [January 7, 2023, 4:38pm UTC](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/typos-megathread/1695 "2023-01-07T16:38:37Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Elliot](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/u/Elliot)
#### Post date: [January 7, 2023, 4:38pm UTC](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/typos-megathread/1695/1 "2023-01-07T16:38:37Z")
Don’t reply to Elliot’s articles with typos anymore. Report typos and minor errors here.
Minor means that you don’t think it’s important to discussion of the article. Most people wouldn’t be interested to read it. You don’t think you disagree with Elliot. You don’t think the error has wider consequences implying anything else needs fixing. You don’t think a post mortem should be done.
In general, it’s bad when people dismiss criticism as minor errors. That’s a common way that people refuse to debate. That involves disagreement about the importance of the error. But if the critic or error-reporter himself considers it minor (and the author agrees), then it’s reasonable to treat it as minor.
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### Author:  [@Fire](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/u/Fire)
#### Post date: [January 8, 2023, 9:44pm UTC](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/typos-megathread/1695/2 "2023-01-08T21:44:07Z")
From: [Debate, Rejection, Priorities and Endless Meta Levels](https://criticalfallibilism.com/debate-rejection-priorities-and-endless-meta-levels/)
> If you have more important thinks to work on, then you shouldn’t participate in this debate even if it has some (more than zero) positive value.
“thinks” should be things.
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### Author:  [@deroj](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/u/deroj)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2023, 9:11am UTC](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/typos-megathread/1695/3 "2023-01-11T09:11:00Z")
> **[Learning With and Without Two-Way Communication with Others](https://criticalfallibilism.com/learning-with-and-without-two-way-communication-with-others/)**
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> Reading a book is learning “alone” in some sense, even though the author is involved in your learning process. You don’t have a back-and-forth discussion with the author.
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> There’s a worthwhile division of learning into two to four types. The main two...
> Reasonable people use the internet to receive information some information.
I think it was meant to be “Reasonable people use the internet to receive some information.”
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### Author:  [@Lebowski](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/u/Lebowski)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2023, 12:27am UTC](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/typos-megathread/1695/4 "2023-01-14T00:27:28Z")
> [@Elliot's Philosophy Livestream #76](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/elliots-philosophy-livestream-76/1700/2):
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> It’s find to do slow, hard stuff sometimes but that shouldn’t be typical.
I think you mean “It’s fine”.
> [@Elliot's Philosophy Livestream #76](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/elliots-philosophy-livestream-76/1700/2):
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> Then they published it before first, before the author released it.
I think you should delete the first “before”.
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### Author:  [@MetaCreation](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/u/MetaCreation)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2023, 9:04am UTC](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/typos-megathread/1695/5 "2023-02-06T09:04:46Z")
> [@Purpose of Thinking; Positive and Negative Arguments; Clear Goals](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/purpose-of-thinking-positive-and-negative-arguments-clear-goals/1708/1):
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> Positive arguments can technically all be converted to negative arguments (if they make sense). So we only need critical thinking. However, using positive arguments is fine. People find it convenient and natural because they’re used to it. Just be careful about selective attention. Often an idea is good at something _but the alternatives are too_. Positive traits are often shared by many or all of the ideas being considered, so finding that a specific idea has a positive trait doesn’t mean it’s better than the other ideas. On the other hand, important negative traits often aren’t shared by the other ideas. Ideas weren’t considering often aren’t all broken in the same way. (Sometimes they are and we need to think of some new ideas.)
“Ideas weren’t considering often…”
There seems to be a word missing or a wrong word here. Should it be “Ideas we’re considering often…”?
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### Author:  [@Apricus](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/u/Apricus)
#### Post date: [February 15, 2023, 9:46pm UTC](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/typos-megathread/1695/6 "2023-02-15T21:46:47Z")
Noticed a potential typo in the [blog post](https://curi.us/2494-caffeine-is-bad)
> I’ve got a few things stuff to say about it:
Did a quick search to see if anyone else mentioned it yet, didn’t find anything. Hope it helps. Quick message, haven’t read everything and replied to everything I should yet
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### Author:  [@Apricus](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/u/Apricus)
#### Post date: [February 15, 2023, 9:51pm UTC](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/typos-megathread/1695/7 "2023-02-15T21:51:00Z")
Context:
Found the typo above because a co-founder/colleague told me he drank 3 Zoas (my shallow understanding is it’s some kind of caffeine energy drink but I haven’t looked into it beyond a cursory search and looking at their website for ~30s when he first mentioned it a few weeks ago) and he doesn’t like how he feels and probably drank too much. So I linked him this blog post about caffeine being bad and told him he should consider quitting. He said he tried in the past but failed, but he will try again to cut them down 1 by 1. I think it’s a habit so maybe the habits post will also help him. [Curiosity – Changing Habits](https://direct.curi.us/1948-changing-habits)
I just linked him that as well
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### Author:  [@deroj](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/u/deroj)
#### Post date: [February 16, 2023, 7:53am UTC](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/typos-megathread/1695/8 "2023-02-16T07:53:48Z")
> **[Curiosity – Problem Solving While Reading](https://curi.us/2559-problem-solving-while-reading)**
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> I'd urge anyone who has trouble reading something to stop and do problem solving instead of ignoring the problem or giving up. This kind of thing is an opportunity to practice and improve.
>
> You cou
> A way look at it is if you do those activities enough …
Seems to be missing a “to” after “A way”.
Edit:
Also:
> So you might need to use sections that pretty short …
Seems to be missing an “are” after “that”.
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### Author:  [@Fire](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/u/Fire)
#### Post date: [March 17, 2023, 8:23am UTC](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/typos-megathread/1695/9 "2023-03-17T08:23:45Z")
> **[Learning and the Subconscious Bullet Points](https://criticalfallibilism.com/learning-and-the-subconscious-bullet-points/)**
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> Summary: Your subconscious has most of your brainpower. To become a great thinker, focus on teaching your subconscious and delegating work to it. Don’t focus on conscious analysis. The subconscious isn’t the irrational part of your mind; it’s a...
> 1. Practice a more and gradually speed up (while consciously making sure you’re doing it the new way, not the old way) and make it more subconscious and automatic
Should be “Practice a lot more…”
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### Author:  [@Fire](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/u/Fire)
#### Post date: [March 18, 2023, 3:08am UTC](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/typos-megathread/1695/10 "2023-03-18T03:08:29Z")
> **[Don’t Suppress Your Intuition](https://criticalfallibilism.com/dont-suppress-your-intuition/)**
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> Intuitions aren't irrational.
> Sure there are skills you can learn to be better at making explicit arguments, articulating ideas, etc.
I think there should be a comma after “sure”.
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### Author:  [@Fire](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/u/Fire)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2023, 2:31am UTC](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/typos-megathread/1695/11 "2023-03-20T02:31:29Z")
> **[Learning and the Subconscious Bullet Points](https://criticalfallibilism.com/learning-and-the-subconscious-bullet-points/#using-ideas-in-your-life)**
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> Summary: Your subconscious has most of your brainpower. To become a great thinker, focus on teaching your subconscious and delegating work to it. Don’t focus on conscious analysis. The subconscious isn’t the irrational part of your mind; it’s a...
> - In software, if something is used a lot, it’s strongly preferred to make it fully automatic. Something that’s used less often, or very difficult to automate, may require manual actions be a user
Last three words should be “by a user”.
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### Author:  [@Fire](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/u/Fire)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2023, 2:48am UTC](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/typos-megathread/1695/12 "2023-03-20T02:48:10Z")
> **[Learning and the Subconscious Bullet Points](https://criticalfallibilism.com/learning-and-the-subconscious-bullet-points/#using-ideas-in-your-life)**
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> Summary: Your subconscious has most of your brainpower. To become a great thinker, focus on teaching your subconscious and delegating work to it. Don’t focus on conscious analysis. The subconscious isn’t the irrational part of your mind; it’s a...
> The best way to use your _conscious_ computing power is for learning new things and teaching them to your subconscious.
Possible grammar error with “for learning” and “teaching”. I ran the sentence through three grammar checkers and two of them suggested changes. I think “for learning” and “teaching” should be replaced with “to learn” and “teach”.
Grammar checkers:
> **[Grammarly's Free Grammar Checker](https://www.grammarly.com/grammar-check)**
>
> Make your writing mistake-free by checking for grammar, spelling, punctuation, and more.
[https://quillbot.com/grammar-check](https://quillbot.com/grammar-check)
This last one said no issues.
> **[Writer](https://writer.com/)**
>
> Get a full-stack platform that enables higher-quality outputs and faster time to market. No more stitching disparate AI tools together.
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### Author:  [@MetaCreation](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/u/MetaCreation)
#### Post date: [March 26, 2023, 7:21pm UTC](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/typos-megathread/1695/13 "2023-03-26T19:21:46Z")
Not typos but this seems like the right place for this.
> **[Fallible Ideas – Grammar](https://fallibleideas.com/grammar)**
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> Philosophy articles by Elliot Temple
In your grammar article:
> For learning more grammar in general, I particularly recommend [Leonard Peikoff’s Grammar Course](http://www.peikoff.com/courses_and_lectures/principles-of-grammar/). See also my [notes on Peikoff’s course](https://gumroad.com/l/XDxz) and [video on the first exercises](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaBrVW2-QFc&list=PLKx6lO5RmaevOClaCK5UwQPbfhONSVfMx&index=1) (those were made when I knew less about grammar). If you practice the material in this article, you will know enough to begin Peikoff’s course.
The link to Peikoff’s grammar course is dead.
The link in the article is to:
[http://www.peikoff.com/courses\_and\_lectures/principles-of-grammar/](http://www.peikoff.com/courses_and_lectures/principles-of-grammar/)
The course and website still exist but you need to leave out the www, i.e:
[http://peikoff.com/courses\_and\_lectures/principles-of-grammar/](http://peikoff.com/courses_and_lectures/principles-of-grammar/)
Also your notes on the course are not for sale so it’s odd to include a link to them.
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### Author:  [@Elliot](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/u/Elliot)
#### Post date: [March 26, 2023, 8:04pm UTC](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/typos-megathread/1695/14 "2023-03-26T20:04:25Z")
Thanks.
The notes were moved to be included in [Fallible Ideas Bundle](https://curi.gumroad.com/l/SCgELz)
I also just enabled them for individual sale so the direct link will work, but hid them from my profile/store page.
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### Author:  [@MetaCreation](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/u/MetaCreation)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2023, 9:11am UTC](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/typos-megathread/1695/15 "2023-03-31T09:11:24Z")
> **[Progress Despite Emotions and Bias; Mastery of Sentences](https://criticalfallibilism.com/progress-despite-emotions-and-bias-mastery-of-sentences/)**
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> If you try to think much, you will sometimes get upset, be biased, get tilted, get frustrated, be sad, be angry, etc. Maybe not all of those, but you’ll have some problems like that.
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> To deal with this well, you need some emotion-resistant and...
> People misread more when they’re upset. The idea is that if they were skilled enough, their skill would still work reasonably well when upset, even though they’re worse at it when upset. It’s like how people are worse drivers when upset but they still usually don’t get into an accident. Their driving skill is good enough that, even when they’re driving worse, they still usually do reasonably OK (especially for more experienced drivers who can drive in a more habitual, automatic way – relying less on conscious attention means that being upset is less of a problem because being upset particularly distracts you’re conscious attention).
last sentence should end with “your conscious attention”
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### Author:  [@Fire](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/u/Fire)
#### Post date: [April 2, 2023, 9:15pm UTC](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/typos-megathread/1695/16 "2023-04-02T21:15:58Z")
> **[Analyzing a Grammar Ambiguity Using Variables and Trees](https://criticalfallibilism.com/analyzing-a-grammar-ambiguity-using-variables-and-trees/)**
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> Let’s look at a grammatically ambiguous sentence fragment by me. This is a simple example of analyzing text, which is common philosophical activity. For context, I wrote CF newsletter titles and descriptions:
>
> We’ll analyze this text:
>
> Infrequent...
> After you make progress on you analysis, substituting in reverse, to add words back into the text you’re analyzing, can help you apply your conclusions to the original subject matter.
…on _your_ analysis…
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### Author:  [@Fire](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/u/Fire)
#### Post date: [April 25, 2023, 9:22pm UTC](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/typos-megathread/1695/17 "2023-04-25T21:22:12Z")
> **[Curiosity – Better Economics Introduction](https://curi.us/2558-better-economics-introduction)**
>
> The Mises Institute put out a bad Economics for Beginners resource. Rather than focusing on criticizing it, I decided to make something better. I wrote my own alternative answers for their prompts. Yo
> Capitalism is an economic system in individuals are free to choose what economic activities to do.
Should be: “…system in _which_ individuals are free…”
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### Author:  [@Fire](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/u/Fire)
#### Post date: [April 28, 2023, 2:40am UTC](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/typos-megathread/1695/18 "2023-04-28T02:40:52Z")
> [@Evolution and Epistemology \[CF Article\]](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/evolution-and-epistemology-cf-article/1376):
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> We doesn’t have a single reasonable alternative to evolution.
Should be: “We don’t have…”
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### Author:  [@Fire](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/u/Fire)
#### Post date: [April 28, 2023, 4:09am UTC](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/typos-megathread/1695/19 "2023-04-28T04:09:06Z")
Not positive about this one but it looks intuitively off.
> **[Evolution and Epistemology](https://criticalfallibilism.com/evolution-and-epistemology/#thinking-with-evolution)**
>
> How evolution relates to intelligent thinking and error correction
> This understanding encourages us to brainstorming ideas more.
Possibly should be: “…encourages us to _be_ brainstorming ideas more.” or “…encourages us to _brainstorm_ ideas more.” or “…encourages us _toward_ brainstorming ideas more.”
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### Author:  [@Fire](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/u/Fire)
#### Post date: [April 28, 2023, 9:58pm UTC](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/typos-megathread/1695/20 "2023-04-28T21:58:01Z")
> **[Delegating Mental Work](https://criticalfallibilism.com/delegating-mental-work/)**
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> People often try to become really smart by optimizing their conscious thinking. This can only take you so far. Conscious brainpower is a limited resource. To be a really effective thinker, you have to consider how to use things outside of your...
> And you can have people **think for you** , including scientists you never interact with but who indirectly inform your doctor about what disease you have and how to cure it, and also tutors who directly thinking about your personal problems.
Should be: “…who directly _think_ about…”
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