202. Julia Galef — The Scout Mindset: Why Some People See Things Clearly and Others Don’t
The Michael Shermer Show
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The Outsider Test
The outsider test is one of a set of am thought experiments that ia about in the book as ways to kind of, am test your your judgments. And so the outsider test is essentially just imagining that am that some one else is in the situation tha you're in and then noticing how you would evaluate their actions if it was some one else and not you. So i like thought experiments, partly just on the object level, like they can help me think more clearly about a particular thing, but also because they, you know, doing thought experiments helps drive home to me that my brain is really good at picking and choosing criteria or principles depending on the outcome that i want to get. That
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