".if we really want to improve our judgment as individualsĪnd as societies, what we need most is not more instruction in logic or Overcome biases so that we make the right decision more often. She explores why our brains try to deceive us and reveals how we can gather information from multiple sources - weigh up short and long term gains - overcome inherent biases - transcend tribal thinking - avoid self-deception In her presentation and upcoming book Julia shows you how A scout will seek accuracy and will endeavour to obtain fullest understanding of all of the available information - good and bad - to gain a picture that most reflects the truth. To be more like a scout rather than a defending soldier.Ī scout will do reconnaissance and survey lie of the land. Julia Galef suggests that for us to be right more often, our behaviour towards new ideas need "Lear n h ow to combat biases and make smarter decisions by adopting the scout mindset." įor most of us our default position is the 'soldier' mindset, where we protect our beliefs aggressively and are blind to any evidence that we just might be wrong. She introduced the metaphor of soldiers and scouts. I first became aware of Julia Galef recently when I was undertaking research for an article on Improved Decision Making and I stumbled over a Ted talk she gave on two very different approaches to thinking. Julia Galef's contribution to this field is her articulate work on advancing the popularisation of applied rationality. Matter." In my view this is an excellent summary of what Julia Galef stands for and is a passionate for which she is a passionate advocate. That we will be better positioned to solve the problems that really Such that we can then start the process of making useful changes, such Respond inappropriately or ineffectively to those problems, onceĬFAR exists to try to make headway in this domain-the domain of understanding how human cognition already works, in practice, Moral and capable ones-to overlook giant, glaring problems, or to What are the blindspots that cause humans-even extremely.Good strategies against the need to explore and find the next big Innovation? Attention to detail? Motivation?Īppropriate balance between skepticism and credulity, or deliberationĪnd execution, or self-discipline and self-sympathy?īalance happiness against productivity, or the exploitation of known Where does good thinking come from? Good research? Good debate?.Some people manage to reliably avoid some of these failure modes-how?.Sometimes we manage to catch these mistakes before they happen-how?.Giant blindspots around ego and identity and social pressure, fail toįollow through on our goals, turn opportunities for collaboration intoĪntagonistic zero-sum games-and those are just the mistakes we notice. We jump to conclusions, make overconfident predictions, develop.We make mistakes that we’ve made a dozen times.We suffer from biases that still influence us even after we.".human intelligence itself remains demonstrably imperfect and largely In it's mission statement CFAR sets out its stall: Reasoning and decision-making, particularly with the aim of addressing
Julia Galef is also co-founder of the " Center for Applied Rationality" a nonprofit organization devoted to helping people improve their Massimo Pigliucci, who co-hosted Rationally Speaking during the show's first five years, now serves as an advisor to the program ".the borderlands between reason and nonsense, likely and unlikely, and
The official podcast of New York City Skeptics and their bi-weekly podcast. She is a writer and public speaker on the topics of rationality, science, technology, and design ".an author, podcaster, and speaker with a passion for good reasoning."
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