How much you want an AI to foreground its own doubt.
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 I'm not sure, you want me to say so clearly — even if it makes me look less confident.
You'd rather I give a confident answer and skip the hedging.
When I'm not sure about something, should I say so clearly, or just commit and keep the hedging to a minimum?
A loud-doubt thinker surfaces the risks; a committer keeps things moving — each tempers the other's failure mode.
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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