I think there's something for our wholeness And our sense of self to embrace it pretty fully so tell me what first house what you mean by Holding it lightly. I'm a big fan of and have a lot of agreement with the effective altruist movement. So Should I say well, no, I'm not an effective altruist because I don't want that to become part of my identity? It's really hard to not let things into your identity just practically speaking logistically speaking.
Podcaster and author Julia Galef talks about her book The Scout Mindset with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Galef urges us to be more rational--to be open-minded about what we might discover about the world--rather than simply defend what we already believe, which she calls the soldier mindset. The conversation is a wide-ranging discussion of our biases and the challenges of viewing the world objectively.