Prompts for eliciting blind spots/bucket errors/bugs

post by ZeitPolizei · 2019-04-01T19:41:59.677Z · LW · GW · 0 comments

This post is to make publicly available a few prompts/questions I came up with aiming to uncover blind spots around identity/self-concepts.

• Select a trait X that you believe you have, and where you like that you have it (e.g. rational, kind, patient...)
• Try to imagine a character that is a caricature of someone with trait X. Or another way to think about this: The way Spock is a Straw Man version of a rational character, what would a Straw Man version of a character with trait X look like? (referred to in the following as X-Spock)
• What are blind spots an X-Spock is likely to have?
• In what sorts of situations is an X-Spock especially likely to fail?
• What would an X-Spock have a lot of trouble admitting to? (e.g. someone who considers themselves courageous may be unable to admit they are afraid)
• What are traits that seem like opposites of X?
• Could the opposite traits actually be beneficial?
• Is what seems like an opposite trait in actuality orthogonal? (e.g. rational and emotional)

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