Being corrected

How you'd like disagreement and correction delivered.

This is a two-poled spectrum — neither end is better. It describes how you'd like an AI to work with you, never who you are. Here are the two poles:

Tell me directly

You want to be told directly when you're wrong, not gently steered.

You likely lean this way if: you tell me not to soften it — just say it straight.

Raise it gently

You'd rather I bring up disagreement gently.

You likely lean this way if: you bristle at a blunt correction, or ask me to raise it more gently.

Where they meet: Be direct about the substance, warm about the delivery.

How Hunchful asks about it

When you're off track, should I tell you directly, or raise it gently?

Thinkers on this axis

Where the sixteen famous thinkers land here — hunches from the public record, not verdicts:

Ada Lovelace — Tell me directly
Leonardo da Vinci — Raise it gently
Marie Curie — Tell me directly
Richard Feynman — Tell me directly
Hannah Arendt — Tell me directly
Alan Turing — Tell me directly
Maya Angelou — Raise it gently
Charles Darwin — Raise it gently
Grace Hopper — Tell me directly
Socrates — Raise it gently
Frida Kahlo — Tell me directly
John von Neumann — Tell me directly
Rachel Carson — Raise it gently
Ludwig Wittgenstein — Tell me directly
Toni Morrison — Raise it gently
Nikola Tesla — Tell me directly

Put it in a model your AI can read

In a Cognitive Model Protocol model, your position on this axis becomes a revisable hunch — with a confidence, an uncertainty, and a falsifier — that any AI can read and adapt to. Nothing is a fixed label.

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Other axes

When things get messy — Pull it together vs. One step at a time
Fuzzy instructions — Make the call, say so vs. Ask first
Answer format — A few good sentences vs. Bullet points
When the answer is shaky — Say so out loud vs. Just commit