How to Be a Good at XYZ

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I like that you don't even have to make the bet. You just have to kind of imagine making the bet and it shifts you into that truth oriented mindset. I think there's a number of things going on here. Part of it is just imagining the stakes and noticing that you're hesitant to risk losing $1,000. Just that fact of picturing what would it look like to find out whether I was right about the servers being secure? That also goes a long way towards noticing what do I actually believe is going on here because the more abstract the claims are to yourself, the easier it is to kind of get away with BS if that makes sense.

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What are "scout" and "soldier" mindsets? How can we have productive disagreements even when one person isn't in scout mindset? Is knowing about good rationality habits sufficient to reason well? When do we naturally tend to be in scout mindset or soldier mindset? When is each mindset beneficial or harmful? Are humans "rationally irrational"? What are the two different types of confidence? What are some practical strategies for shifting our mindset in the moment from soldier to scout?

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