In today's episode, we'll be talking about soldiers and scouts, perseverance and adaptation, and reasonable ways to be rational. My guest today is Julia Galef, co-founder of the Center for Applied Rationality and host of the Rationally Speaking Podcast. My name is Brooke Struck, a research director at TDL and I'll be your host for the discussion. And that is a messy business."īrooke: Hello everyone, and welcome to the podcast of The Decision Lab, a socially conscious applied research firm that uses behavioral science to improve outcomes for all of society. "You should be adjusting the strength of your beliefs to the strength of the evidence. "Try not to let too many things into your identity and try to be self-aware of the things that are part of your identity." So we're all a mix of both."Ī word of caution on anchoring our self-identities Or some people might be really good at being a scout about science, but not about politics. "I might be really good at being in scout mindset about, I don't know, my job, and then I might be much more likely to be a soldier in my personal relationships where I refuse to consider other people's perspectives or that I might have been wrong about something. And so, just like a scout, in contrast to the soldier, their role is not to attack or defend, but it's to go out, see what's really there and form as accurate a map of an issue or a situation as possible, including all of the uncertainties and unknowns."
"It's reasoning that is genuinely directed at, to the best of your abilities, at figuring out what is actually true.
The opposite of soldier mindset: the scout You also need to have the right motivation guiding that intelligence and knowledge in the right direction.” “Being smart, and clever, and knowledgeable is not sufficient for seeing the world as clearly as possible.
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