I have just recently been wondering where we stand on the very basic description of the problem criteria for productive conversations. Of late our conversations seem to have more of the flavor of proposal for solution → criticism of solution, which of course is fine if we have the problem described; but if that were the case why do so many criticisms take the form of disagreements over the nature of the problem?
A very reasonable objection is that there are too many unknowns at work, so people are working on those. But this feels like one meta-problem, so the same reasoning should apply and we want a description of the meta-problem.
I suppose it might be fair to say we are currently working on competing descriptions of the meta-problem. Note to self: doing another survey of the recent conversations with this in mind might be clarifying.
I have just recently been wondering where we stand on the very basic description of the problem criteria for productive conversations. Of late our conversations seem to have more of the flavor of proposal for solution → criticism of solution, which of course is fine if we have the problem described; but if that were the case why do so many criticisms take the form of disagreements over the nature of the problem?
A very reasonable objection is that there are too many unknowns at work, so people are working on those. But this feels like one meta-problem, so the same reasoning should apply and we want a description of the meta-problem.
I suppose it might be fair to say we are currently working on competing descriptions of the meta-problem. Note to self: doing another survey of the recent conversations with this in mind might be clarifying.