A smart, well-researched person is losing an argument they don't know they're losing. They produce nine counterpoints in rapid succession. Each one is accurate at the level of observable fact. Each one is absorbed as confirmation while the framework itself never gets tested. This is not a story about being wrong. It's a story about … Continue reading The Frame Problem: Why Nine Correct Facts Can Leave You Systematically Wrong
The Structural Weight of Truth: Selection Pressure, Story Architecture, and the Limits of Explanatory Reach
tl;dr: Communicability is prima facie evidence of partiality I. The Misidentified Mechanism In 416 BCE the Athenians delivered an ultimatum to the people of Melos: the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must. The Melians appealed to justice and were destroyed for it. Thucydides recorded the exchange in spare, unsparing … Continue reading The Structural Weight of Truth: Selection Pressure, Story Architecture, and the Limits of Explanatory Reach
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