---
slug: "Kinproxy"
name: "Kinproxy"
type: "Reasoning"
layer: "Mind"
ref: "Kinproxy#eb76"
sema_id: "sema:Kinproxy#mh:SHA-256:eb7667c0163e2e5b9dc301933abc4ba64421ed3269bfdebebb5631bbed07f047"
tags: ["Mind","Reasoning"]
updated: 2026-11-11
mindscape: "bootstrap"
index_url: https://mindscape.world/scapes/bootstrap.json
url: https://mindscape.world/bootstrap/Kinproxy/
related: ["EmpathySim","Statuslens","Callshort"]
---

# Kinproxy

Another party's values, care or understanding are inferred from how far it resembles the judge

Layer: Mind · Category: Reasoning

## Mechanism

A judge attributes values, care or understanding to another party, such as a person, an animal, a system or an unfamiliar way of working, partly because of how far its form, manner or reasoning resembles the judge's own. Resemblance raises the attribution and unlikeness lowers it, so a familiar manner is credited with understanding it may lack, and an unfamiliar form is read as indifferent or uncomprehending. Resemblance used as a cue with independently supported relevance to the quality in that context is not an instance.

## Invariants

- A judge attributes values, care or understanding to another party.
- The attribution draws partly on the other's resemblance or unlikeness to the judge, where that resemblance has no independently supported bearing on the quality.

## Failure modes

- Likeness read as care: a familiar, human-like manner is taken to show care or understanding.
- Strangeness read as indifference: an unfamiliar form or way of reasoning is taken to show the absence of care or understanding.
- Resemblance dismissed: every attribution that uses resemblance is discounted, including where its relevance to the quality in that context is independently supported.

## Builds on

—

## Used by

—

## Identity

- Sema ID: `sema:Kinproxy#mh:SHA-256:eb7667c0163e2e5b9dc301933abc4ba64421ed3269bfdebebb5631bbed07f047`
- Ref: `Kinproxy#eb76`

## Links

- [Pattern page](https://mindscape.world/bootstrap/Kinproxy/)
- [View in the interactive graph](https://mindscape.world/bootstrap/#Kinproxy)
- [JSON](https://mindscape.world/scapes/bootstrap/Kinproxy.json)
- [Index of all patterns](https://mindscape.world/scapes/bootstrap.json)