Is There a Conspiracy Theory?

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Most conspiracy theories surround major corporations, governments or rich people. The tricky thing though is just that there's often a leap made from the genuine conspiracies a to more crazy conspiracies which i think is not justified. And also, it's sometimes used to justify, like, you know, tuskeki happened, therefore it's reasonable to think that like, the c i a created covet and is now infecting everyone in the country with it,. That's like, way too big of a leap to make.

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.