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The Scout Mindset: Why Some People See Things Clearly and Others Don't by Julia Galef
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In this inaugural episode of the Book Schmooze podcast we review the book "The Scout Mindset: Why Some People See Things Clearly and Others Don't" by Julia Galef. Is it RAD or is it WHACK? Find out by listening to this episode.
Some notes:
-That one time Alexej talked about Expected Utility Theory what he actually meant was Prospect Theory
-It's called "Ideological Turing Test", not hypothetical Turing Test
Chapters
1. Awkward intro and What we know about Julia Galef (very little) (00:00:00)
2. Synopsis and a little bit about biases (00:03:52)
3. What is scout mindset? (00:08:34)
4. Synopsis continued and "holding your identity lightly" (00:12:46)
5. Soldier mindset and human evolution (00:18:24)
6. Building beliefs or "Can a scout be racist?" (00:24:41)
7. GAME TIME!! Exploring our own biases, including the importance(?) of check lists (00:33:12)
8. Inner calibration and probabilities (00:55:54)
9. Epistemic confidence vs social confidence: convincing like Jeff Bezos (00:58:00)
10. Keeping an eye out for loss aversion (and less useful biases) (01:02:28)
11. The merits and pitfalls of being certain (01:07:13)
12. Why some people prefer the soldier mindset (because it's comfy) (01:10:54)
13. Remedies for the soldier mindset//DON'T leave our echo chamber (01:14:49)
14. Belonging to a group (01:18:34)
15. GAME TIME!! Ideological Turing test (illegal substance abuse in sports) (01:21:03)
16. GAME TIME!! Ideological Turing test (learning how to speak Turkish) (01:31:40)
17. WRAP UP (01:37:28)
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