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121 | Julia Galef: The Path to Thinking Better with the Scout Mindset

The Realignment

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The Myth of the Rational Voter

The claim that humans are already rationally irrational is claiming that we're already choosing just the right amount of soldier mindset. The phrase itself was coined by an economist I really like named Brian Kaplan, how many wrote a couple papers and discuss this in one of his books. He kind of goes into more detail on the rational irrationality model in another paper that I can send you the link to later I don't remember the title. So yeah, he could be misrepressed as a, as a, I remember this book because that was a cover of sheep on it so it comes back to our question.

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