Want to clarify here, “explicit frames” and “explicit claims” are quite different, and it sounds here like you’re mostly talking about the latter.
The point of “explicit frames” is specifically to enable this sort of conversation – most people don’t even notice that they’re limiting the conversation to explicit claims, or where they’re assuming burden of proof lies, or whether we’re having a model-building sharing of ideas or a negotiation.
Also worth noting (which I hadn’t really stated, but is perhaps important enough to deserve a whole post to avoid accidental motte/bailey by myself or others down the road): My claim is that you should know what your frames are, and what would change* your mind. *Not* that you should always tell that to other people.
Ontological/Framework/Aesthetic Doublecrux is a thing you do with people you trust about deep, important disagreements where you think the right call is to open up your soul a bit (because you expect them to be symmetrically opening their soul, or that it’s otherwise worth it), not something you necessarily do with every person you disagree with (especially when you suspect their underlying framework is more like a negotiation or threat than honest, mutual model-sharing)
*also, not saying you should ask “what would change my mind” as soon as you bump into someone who disagrees with you. Reflexively doing that also opens yourself up to power moves, intentional or otherwise. Just that I expect it to be useful on the margin.
Interesting. It seemed in the above exchanges like both Ben and you were acting as if this was a request to make your frames explicit to the other person, rather than a request to know what the frame was yourself and then tell if it seemed like a good idea.
I think for now I still endorse that making my frame fully explicit even to myself is not a reasonable ask slash is effectively a request to simplify my frame in likely to be unhelpful ways. But it’s a lot more plausible as a hypothesis.
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.”
Want to clarify here, “explicit frames” and “explicit claims” are quite different, and it sounds here like you’re mostly talking about the latter.
The point of “explicit frames” is specifically to enable this sort of conversation – most people don’t even notice that they’re limiting the conversation to explicit claims, or where they’re assuming burden of proof lies, or whether we’re having a model-building sharing of ideas or a negotiation.
Also worth noting (which I hadn’t really stated, but is perhaps important enough to deserve a whole post to avoid accidental motte/bailey by myself or others down the road): My claim is that you should know what your frames are, and what would change* your mind. *Not* that you should always tell that to other people.
Ontological/Framework/Aesthetic Doublecrux is a thing you do with people you trust about deep, important disagreements where you think the right call is to open up your soul a bit (because you expect them to be symmetrically opening their soul, or that it’s otherwise worth it), not something you necessarily do with every person you disagree with (especially when you suspect their underlying framework is more like a negotiation or threat than honest, mutual model-sharing)
*also, not saying you should ask “what would change my mind” as soon as you bump into someone who disagrees with you. Reflexively doing that also opens yourself up to power moves, intentional or otherwise. Just that I expect it to be useful on the margin.
Interesting. It seemed in the above exchanges like both Ben and you were acting as if this was a request to make your frames explicit to the other person, rather than a request to know what the frame was yourself and then tell if it seemed like a good idea.
I think for now I still endorse that making my frame fully explicit even to myself is not a reasonable ask slash is effectively a request to simplify my frame in likely to be unhelpful ways. But it’s a lot more plausible as a hypothesis.
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.”