MendelSchmiedekamp comments on Generalizing From One Example - Less Wrong

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Comment author: MendelSchmiedekamp 29 April 2009 04:54:57PM 4 points [-]

My automatic assumption is actually the opposite. Assume other people do not think the same way I do and that I cannot model them by tweaking a self-model. I then sometimes need to weaken this assumption if my other models aren't up to the task.

Which, oddly enough, makes the Typical Mind Fallacy an instance of itself.