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This is called rubber ducking or the teddy bear technique.
Not quite. Conversing with an imaginary intelligent interlocutor is more advanced than simple rubber ducking.
You're supposed to have the rubber duck ask these questions too.
The difference here was that I was actually writing a letter / forum post that other people could have seen. I was doing this with the urgency of 'If there's an obvious solution to this, I'm going to look like a moron'. In contrast, a rubber duck, well... it's just me.
I think the distinction you drew in the other branch of this conversation is more important. Getting a little skin in the game of 'get this right now (or satisfy yourself that it's genuinely hard)'.