I’ve mostly been operating (lately) within the paradigm of “there does in fact seem to be enough trust for a doublecrux, and it seems like doublecrux is actually the right move given the state of the conversation. Within that situation, making things as explicit as possible seems good to me.” (But, this seems importantly only true within that situation)
But it also seemed like both Ben (and you) were hearing me make a more aggressive ask than I meant to be making (which implies some kind of mistake on my part, but I’m not sure which one). The things I meant to be taking as a given are:
1) Everyone has all kinds of implicit stuff going on that’s difficult to articulate. The naively Straw Vulcan failure mode is to assume that if you can’t articulate it it’s not real.
2) I think there are skills to figuring out how to make implicit stuff explicit, in a careful way that doesn’t steamroll your implicit internals.
3) Resolving serious disagreements requires figuring out how to bridge the gap of implicit knowledge. (I agree that in a single-pair doublecrux, doing the sort of thing you mention in the other comment can work fine, where you try to paint a picture and ask them questions to see if they got the picture. But, if you want more than one person to be able to understand the thing you’ll eventually probably want to figure out how to make it explicit without simplifying it so hard that it loses its meaning)
4) The additional, not-quite-stated claim is “I nowadays seem to keep finding myself in situations where there’s enough longstanding serious disagreements that are worth resolving that it’s worth Stag Hunting on Learning to Make Beliefs Cruxy and Frames Explicit, to facilitate those conversations.”
I think maybe the phrase “*keep* your beliefs cruxy and frames explicit” implied more of an action of “only permit some things” rather than “learn to find extra explicitness on the margin when possible.”
I’ve mostly been operating (lately) within the paradigm of “there does in fact seem to be enough trust for a doublecrux, and it seems like doublecrux is actually the right move given the state of the conversation. Within that situation, making things as explicit as possible seems good to me.” (But, this seems importantly only true within that situation)
But it also seemed like both Ben (and you) were hearing me make a more aggressive ask than I meant to be making (which implies some kind of mistake on my part, but I’m not sure which one). The things I meant to be taking as a given are:
1) Everyone has all kinds of implicit stuff going on that’s difficult to articulate. The naively Straw Vulcan failure mode is to assume that if you can’t articulate it it’s not real.
2) I think there are skills to figuring out how to make implicit stuff explicit, in a careful way that doesn’t steamroll your implicit internals.
3) Resolving serious disagreements requires figuring out how to bridge the gap of implicit knowledge. (I agree that in a single-pair doublecrux, doing the sort of thing you mention in the other comment can work fine, where you try to paint a picture and ask them questions to see if they got the picture. But, if you want more than one person to be able to understand the thing you’ll eventually probably want to figure out how to make it explicit without simplifying it so hard that it loses its meaning)
4) The additional, not-quite-stated claim is “I nowadays seem to keep finding myself in situations where there’s enough longstanding serious disagreements that are worth resolving that it’s worth Stag Hunting on Learning to Make Beliefs Cruxy and Frames Explicit, to facilitate those conversations.”
I think maybe the phrase “*keep* your beliefs cruxy and frames explicit” implied more of an action of “only permit some things” rather than “learn to find extra explicitness on the margin when possible.”