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Just to dissect what has transpired, you basically suggested to a clone of you (who is most definitely not you!) in some hypothetical copy of this universe what s/he should be doing in this situation, which happens to be identical to yours, but is most definitely not yours, so you don't have to worry about having to actually do any of it. ... And then you restored the temporarily severed identification between you and the clone.
Does this seem like an adequate description?
Well, I didn't deliberately disassociate myself from the situation, I was just structurally barred from action.
I guess if "clone" is "Tuesday me" then your description is otherwise a decent abstraction.
Is this a known technique? It sounds useful, kind of Stanovich-ey.