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A frame is a colloquial term for "what someone sees as important, what sort of questions they ask or what they're trying to get out of a conversation."

I'm not very active on LW and don't really know how people here use the term "frame", but this is not at all how I'd define it, personally. To me, an important part about a frame (as I understand and use the term) is that much of a frame is implicit and needs to be inferred. It's a set of assumptions baked into communication, either/both about the content of the conversation as well as about the terms of ... (read more)

2Raemon
Hmm, I definitely meant my definition of frame to include (and primarily consist) of inferred things rather than explicit things. I'm not sure whether there are other major differences between our uses of the term, but fwiw when I read your comment I mostly thought "hmm, that's basically what I meant to convey about what-a-frame-is". But, last time I had a convo like this the person was meaning something subtly different than what I was meaning. But you say some more words about why your definition of frame feels different from what I said in this post? The main thing that sticks out at-a-glance is you emphasize "what role people play in a convo or interaction", which I meant to imply at least somewhat by "what you're trying to get out of a conversation".

I believe it was Aella who first published links to the Medium posts on Twitter Facebook or other platforms, so that their existence became known.

  1. If the party in question happened in 2017 or later, I was probably also there. (Aella and I lived together for much but not all of 2017–2021, and I attended maybe 90% of the parties she threw in that time. We also used to date, but we broke up and don't live together anymore.) It's hard to pin down because I can't think of a party that fits the description exactly. This is also the first that I'm aware of someone having a negative experience at the parties I'm thinking of, although I can understand how someone who had such an experience wouldn't feel com

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