Typical Mind Fallacy

Applied to Notes on Empathy by David Gross ago
Applied to Points of Departure by Multicore ago

The typical mind fallacy is the mistake of modellingmodeling the minds inside other people's brains as exactly the same as your own mind. Humans lack insight into their own minds and what is common among everyone or unusually specific to a few. It can be often hard to see the flaws in the lens, especially when we only have one lens to look through with which to see those flaws.

The typical mind fallacy can usually be found making other fallacies worse. For exampleexample, causing biased and overconfident conclusions about other people's experienceexperiences based on your own personal experience.

The typical mind fallacy is the mistake of modelling the minds inside other people'people's brains as exactly the same as your own mind. Humans lack insight into their own minds and what is common among everyone or unusually specific to a few. It can be often hard to see the flaws in the lens, especially when we only have one lens to look through with which to see those flaws.

The typical mind fallacy can usually be found making other fallacies worse. For example causing biased and overconfident conclusions about other people'people's experience based on your own personal experience.

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Applied to Anthropomorphic Optimism by brook ago
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The typical mind fallacy is the mistake of modelling the minds inside other people's brains as exactly the same as your own mind. Humans lack insight into their own minds and what is common among everyone or unusually specific to a few. It can be often hard to see the flaws in the lens, especially when we only have one lens to look through with which to see those flaws.

The typical mind fallacy is also accompanied by the atypical mind fallacy - the idea that no one has the same mind or thoughts as you and you are unique.

The typical mind fallacy can usually be found making other fallacies worse. For example causing biased and overconfident conclusions about other people's experience based on your own personal experience; the mistake of assuming that other people are more like you than they actually are.experience.