Book Review and Summary | The Scout Mindset by Julia Galef
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- Опубликовано: 5 сен 2024
- This video is a review of Julia Galef's first book, The Scout Mindset, in which she contrasts the more common, defensive soldier mindset with the more open, truth seeking scout mindset. Galef shows how the motivated reasoning of the soldier mindset can have some understandable psychological and social functions, but that the scout mindset can achieve the same functions in a healthier way.
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Great review, many thanks!
Thank you 🙏, I'm glad you enjoyed it.
i think your channel review great, so sad to see great content with little viewers
Thank you so much for that comment Muhammad. It's sad for me too 🙂 But I hope that if I keep going at it then maybe the channel will grow one day. So, thank you for the encouragement, it means a lot to me 👍
@@Go-Meta the best for you sir, maybe find some course on skillshare to increases your quality content. just a thought not mean to teach you.
Yeah, I've actually watched some of the Skillshare tutorials a while ago and lots and lots of RUclips videos giving advice. I think I now just need to keep learning by doing 🙂
Isn't a scout's ultimate goal to inform the army's leadership of the territory and thus improve the chances of winning? Suddenly all these people thinking like scouts are actually improving their soldiers ability to fight and win battles. Perhaps this wasn't considering? Bearing this in mind, I'm using the scout mindset for this exact reason. :) and wonder if you/she can suggest ways to improve the army's overall chance of success. 👍😂
Interesting, I hadn't thought of this way to extend the metaphor. I'm wondering if that shows that it's still useful to have a small number of scouts as long as they are encouraging the soldiers to head in a sensible direction, or, indeed, if it's an example of how metaphors have boundaries beyond which they break 🙂 A similar possible breaking point for the metaphor is that an army of scouts would no doubt lose against an army of soldiers. Maybe, for the times we're living in, the problem is not that we don't have scouts, but that the soldiers have stopped believing what the scouts are saying about the territory ahead.
Great review! Does Galif talk about our ability to see the world as it is altogether? Or is adopting the scout mindset a first step in that direction?
Thanks Arthur! The book focuses on the various reasons why it is so hard to get into a scout mindset in the first place, rather than talking about what would be the case if many of us were able to stay in that mindset much of the time. But it wouldn't surprise me if Galef would also recognise that our problems of achieving happy agreement about a given issue are not just about getting enough people to adopt the scout mindset. Indeed, I'd be quite curious to hear what Galef does say about this.
@@Go-Meta Thank you for this. I was also curious: does Galef address the epistemological question 'Can one know what the world really is like?'
No, not in this book. Mostly Galef focuses on the reasons why people use motivated reasoning to avoid seeing the "reality" of how the world really is. And in many ways Galef is right to focus on this first issue first because arguably once in the more inquisitive, open and self-questioning scout mindset people are more likely to be genuinely open to the uncertainties that exist with the deeper question. But I think the next step of how to tackle the deeper problem is even more challenging.
@@Go-Meta thanks!
Sadly the scout mindset gets slammed and the soldiers figuratively what to shoot the scout.
Hi Phillip, thanks for the comment which is all too true sometimes. But any society that keeps shooting the scouts will end up getting ambushed by reality. You can only survive for so long when denying the risks in the terrain ahead. So, our job is to try to cultivate a society that does pay attention to what the scouts have seen.
@@Go-Meta If the predictions are correct, western society is about to fall off the population cliff and it seems that the evidence is there already. Like the saying that some people will sink a ship because they can't be the captain
IMHO: in the short term having a smaller population is probably no bad thing. Longer term we obviously don't want our society's population to trend down to zero, but there's plenty of time to change our culture and political economy to encourage slightly larger families so that we can have a sustainable society. But it's a good example where the scouts have identified a potential problem for the future and hopefully society will keep listening to the scouts, especially if it becomes a more urgent issue. For the moment we've got plenty of people 🙂
Change your name. META IS ANOTHER WORD FOR facebook death
Yeah, that's a tough one! I've used the name 'Go Meta' for various projects over many, many years and I like it as an encouragement to take your thinking to the next level. But, yes, Facebook has rather confused this basic interpretation. I'm rather hoping that in a year or two the 'metaverse' hype will be replaced by the latest buzzword and as few people who know or care what company Alphabet is will know what Meta is.
It would be a shame to lose the ability to suggest that we should 'go meta' with our thinking :-)
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Its a curse name basically. Go Mega..
Go Get It.
Etc.