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202. Julia Galef — The Scout Mindset: Why Some People See Things Clearly and Others Don’t

The Michael Shermer Show

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Are You a Scout or a Soldier?

The incentives that you face can shape whether you're more inclined toward scout minds, tet or soldier minds. In in most areas of pundatry, the incentive is not to be a scout. It's to say things that play to the the biases and the values of their listeners. And they're not going to get any particular kno benefit or reward from saying they were wrong about something,. A again, tad. Have you ought to that? I would say there are exceptions. There are some punnets like that, some public intellectuals i wican name  Sary gone.

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