Is There a Moral Judgment We Pass When We Say, You're Uno?

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i think i underestimated how much the word rationality or irrationality whould would cause this, like, defensive, combative reaction in people. In that t that leads you to a soldier mind set like, no, i'm not. So i'm going to defend my position even stronger. Yes, again, i think there is a moral judgment we pass when we say, you're uno. That's just pseudo science, or, that's irrational. You know, we mean it. And so that's one reason i talk about, you know, scout mine tat or soldier mind tat, or accuracy or inaccuracy, instead of rational and irrational in the book.

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.