The Search for Truth

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i think some religious claims are, you know, they are empirical propositions. And so value judgments, for example, am or don't is much less clear than what it would mean for them to be true. I get a little concerned, actually, if one of my tweets gets an unusually large number of clicks, it causes me to doubt myself and like, oh god, was i being unreasonable? His is not a good sign. Yes, looking at tweets that go viral, or tweets about politics that go viral, it's just a depressing, barren waste lands. It doesn't feel like we're in the business of judging others by our own moral intuitions. We can do thought experiments

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.