I think is a really great post clearly explaining an important skill and giving it a nice handle.
One place I think we run into smuggled frames a lot is in conversations, like the ones we have in the comments, for example, on LessWrong. Folks often come to a topic with different perspectives or frames that get smuggled in to take on things and the art of dialogue is something like learning to find these smuggled frames and bring them out into the light (cf. the double crux method and Hegelian dialectic).
I also find smuggled frames when just trying to explain technical topics. For example, when trying to share a model of how some part of the world works, it’s often necessary to work through the assumptions each person is smuggling in and may not be aware they have. Lots of times this looks like noticing one or both people are confused for reasons “below the surface” of the current conversation and taking a step back to address that.
I think is a really great post clearly explaining an important skill and giving it a nice handle.
One place I think we run into smuggled frames a lot is in conversations, like the ones we have in the comments, for example, on LessWrong. Folks often come to a topic with different perspectives or frames that get smuggled in to take on things and the art of dialogue is something like learning to find these smuggled frames and bring them out into the light (cf. the double crux method and Hegelian dialectic).
I also find smuggled frames when just trying to explain technical topics. For example, when trying to share a model of how some part of the world works, it’s often necessary to work through the assumptions each person is smuggling in and may not be aware they have. Lots of times this looks like noticing one or both people are confused for reasons “below the surface” of the current conversation and taking a step back to address that.