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AMA | February 2023
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
The Prospector Mindset
I don't know of any actual data one way or the other whether the existence of sports tends to increase or decrease the amount of real violence in the society. I would not be surprised if it decreased it rather than increased it. Varun Narasimachar says, you've often talked about Julia Gallif's concept of the scout and soldier mindsets. Like the scout, the prospector is also incentivized to seek truth instead of defending a doctrine. We all know the famously bitter historical contest for intellectual precedence and we modern scientists are no less susceptible.
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