You Know, I Believe in Small Government

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i was just thinking of s something like the abortion issue. You know, what's the right answer there? Well, you know, s i do that little test with conservatives. Y, yes, for sure. Although ideally you gto apply those same kinds of hard questions to your own views as well as other people's views. But, yte, that's the kind of things i'm talking about that, i think it's useful to do, despite the messiness of the definition of truth. Yes.

When it comes to what we believe, humans see what they want to see. We have what Julia Galef calls a “soldier” mindset: a drive to defend the ideas we most want to believe — and shoot down those we don’t. But if we want to get things right more often, argues Galef, we should train ourselves to have a “scout” mindset. Unlike the soldier, a scout’s goal isn’t to defend one side over the other. It’s to go out, survey the territory, and come back with as accurate a map as possible. Regardless of what they hope to be the case, above all, the scout wants to know what’s actually true. In The Scout Mindset, Galef explores why our brains deceive us and what we can do to change the way we think.