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Red-team-before-reliance pattern: the epistemic practice of
Red-team-before-reliance pattern: the epistemic practice of deliberately attempting to break one's own mental model before depending on it, which surfaces weaknesses that confirmation-biased testing misses because adversarial testing operates against rather than with cognitive defaults
Why This Is a Pattern
Exemplifies Cognitive Dissonance Drives Information Avoidance (calibration) and adversarial schema testing. Recurs in pre-mortems, security testing, scientific peer review, decision-making.