How you'd like an AI to behave when a task turns ambiguous or sprawling.
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:
When things get messy, you'd rather I pull it all together into one picture than slow you down one question at a time.
When things get messy, you'd rather I slow down and work through it one step at a time.
When a task gets messy and open-ended, do you want me to pull it together into one picture, or work through it step by step?
A synthesizer and a step-by-step thinker cover each other's blind spots: one sees the whole, the other catches what the leap skipped.
Where the sixteen famous thinkers land here — hunches from the public record, not verdicts:
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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