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DeVliegendeHollander comments on Experience of typical mind fallacy. - Less Wrong Discussion

2 Post author: Elo 27 April 2015 06:39PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 28 April 2015 10:26:33AM 1 point [-]

I tend to be the opposite, often failing at empathy because it just does not occur to me that the way to predict how others may feel would be to put myself in their shoes and ask me how I would feel. I agree the trick is find the exact limits of both heuristics.

I wonder why the opposite fallacy, the atypical one i.e. not putting myself in others shoes is not discussed as much here? Is it rarer?