Frames can be wrong, and using a wrong frame is costly, even ifespecially if everyone agrees on the frame.
It seems to me that having a wrong shared frame when studying a problem might still be useful as long as it’s not too wrong (as long as the way it divides the world up isn’t too far away from the “real” lines), because the world is high-dimensional and having a frame makes thinking about it more tractable. And it can be useful to share this wrong-but-not-too-wrong frame with other people because then you and your colleagues can talk to each other more easily.
Maybe it’s the “everyone agrees” part that’s doing the work here? It seems important that people acknowledge that they’re using the frame because it’s useful and not because there’s strong evidence for it being correct. Or maybe you consider all useful frames to be correct frames?
Yup, that’s right. A wrong frame is costly relative to the right frame. A less wrong frame can still be less costly than a more wrong frame, and that’s especially relevant when nobody knows what the right frame is yet.
It seems to me that having a wrong shared frame when studying a problem might still be useful as long as it’s not too wrong (as long as the way it divides the world up isn’t too far away from the “real” lines), because the world is high-dimensional and having a frame makes thinking about it more tractable. And it can be useful to share this wrong-but-not-too-wrong frame with other people because then you and your colleagues can talk to each other more easily.
Maybe it’s the “everyone agrees” part that’s doing the work here? It seems important that people acknowledge that they’re using the frame because it’s useful and not because there’s strong evidence for it being correct. Or maybe you consider all useful frames to be correct frames?
Curious to know if you disagree.
Yup, that’s right. A wrong frame is costly relative to the right frame. A less wrong frame can still be less costly than a more wrong frame, and that’s especially relevant when nobody knows what the right frame is yet.