Scientific Definition
Seeing things only in their conventional use.
Plain-English Definition
Seeing things only in their conventional use.
Feynman Explanation
AI is just a faster intern. (No, it isn't.)
Core Principle
Seeing things only in their conventional use.
Mechanisms
Seeing things only in their conventional use.
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Inputs (Triggers)
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Outputs (Behaviors)
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Behavioral Signature
AI is just a faster intern. (No, it isn't.)
Examples
- AI deployed only inside existing job descriptions, not redesigning them.
- Innovation handicapped by category constraints invisible to insiders.
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Famous Experiments
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Design Principles
- Forced cross-category brainstorms. 'How would a different industry use this?'
Measurement Approaches
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Evidence
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The Perverse Incentive Lens™
How this behavior is exploited — and how to redesign around it.
- Forced cross-category brainstorms. 'How would a different industry use this?'
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Interactive Mini Network
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Knowledge Graph Neighbors
Auto-linked to the rest of the Human Behavior Taxonomy by family, domain, dimension, and shared keywords.
Perceiving meaningful connections in unrelated things.
People look better in groups than as individuals.
Seeing patterns in random data.
Prior solutions block better new ones.
Familiarity breeds approval.
Bad lands harder than good.
Doing something feels safer than doing nothing — even when nothing wins.
Feelings act as shortcuts for facts.
We prefer known risks to unknown ones, even when the unknown is better.
Over-reliance on the first number that hits the table.
We judge frequency by how easily examples come to mind.
We ignore underlying probabilities in favor of vivid specifics.