Julia Galef

Julia Galef. Official website.

Rationally Speaking. Official website.

Past guests of the show include Bryan Caplan,^[5][6][7] Tyler Cowen,^[8] Robin Hanson,^[9] Holden Karnofsky,^[10] William MacAskill,^[11] Dylan Matthews,^[12][13] Toby Ord,^[14] Kelsey Piper,^[15][16] Anders Sandberg,^[17] Peter Singer,^[18] and Philip Tetlock.^[19]

The book's title refers to a trait, common among people with good judgment, which Galef defines as "the motivation to see things as they are, not as you wish they were."^[5]20] Galef contrasts this scout mindset to a soldier mindset. Unlike scouts, who seek out evidence that improves the accuracy of their beliefs and treat being wrong as an opportunity to revise their model of the world, soldiers seek out evidence that confirms their existing beliefs and treat being wrong as a humiliating defeat.^[6]21]

The Scout Mindset has received praise from Philip Tetlock,^[7]22] Scott Alexander,^[8]23] and Dylan Matthews,^[9]24] among others.

The organization 80,000 Hours has cited Galef as an example of a highly successful career in advocacy for improved institutional decision-making.^[10]25]

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   Galef, Julia (2015) My story, Julia Galef’s Website.

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   "CFAR is a 501(c)(3) non-profit operating out of Berkeley, California, originally founded in 2012 by Anna Salamon, Julia Galef, Valentine Smith, and Andrew Critch." (Center for Applied Rationality (2022) Mission, Center for Applied Rationality)

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   Galef, Julia (2017) I’m overdue for a career update!, Facebook, February 28.

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   Galef, Julia (2021) About the podcast, Rationally Speaking.

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   Galef, Julia (2015) Does parenting matter? (Bryan Caplan), Rationally Speaking, October 4.

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   Galef, Julia (2018) The case against education (Bryan Caplan), Rationally Speaking, February 18.

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   Galef, Julia (2019) The case for open borders (Bryan Caplan), Rationally Speaking, November 11.

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   Galef, Julia (2019) Defending big business against its critics (Tyler Cowen), Rationally Speaking, April 29.

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   Galef, Julia (2015) Most human behavior is signaling (Robin Hanson), Rationally Speaking, May 31.

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    Galef, Julia & Massimo Pigliucci (2011) Evidence-based philanthropy (Holden Karnofsky), Rationally Speaking, July 3.

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    Galef, Julia (2017) Moral uncertainty (Will MacAskill), Rationally Speaking, April 2.

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    Galef, Julia (2017) The science and ethics of kidney donation (Dylan Matthews), Rationally Speaking, February 5.

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    Galef, Julia (2019) Global poverty has fallen, but what should we conclude from that? (Dylan Matthews), Rationally Speaking, May 27.

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    Galef, Julia (2021) Humanity on the precipice (Toby Ord), Rationally Speaking, December 10.

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    Galef, Julia (2019) Big picture journalism: Covering the topics that matter in the long run (Kelsey Piper), Rationally Speaking, April 2.

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    Galef, Julia (2021) How to reason about COVID, and other hard things (Kelsey Piper), Rationally Speaking, September 13.

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    Galef, Julia (2018) The long-term future of humanity (Anders Sandberg), Rationally Speaking, August 19.

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    Galef, Julia (2013) Being a utilitarian in the real world (Peter Singer), Rationally Speaking, November 24.

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    Galef, Julia (2015) Superforecasting: The art and science of prediction (Philip Tetlock), Rationally Speaking, October 20.

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    Galef, Julia (2021) The Scout Mindset: Why Some People See Things Clearly and Others Don’t, New York: Portfolio, p. ix.

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    Galef, The Scout Mindset, p. 14.

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    Tetlock, Philip E. (2021) The scouts in Julia Galef's superb new book, Scout Mindset, are the heroes—just as the superforecasters were in Superforecasting., Twitter,

Julia Galef (born 4 July 1983) is an American writer.author and podcaster. She is the co-founder and former president of the Center for Applied Rationality, the host of the Rationally Speaking podcast, and the author of The Scout Mindset.

The Scout Mindset has received praise from Philip Tetlock,^[7] Scott Alexander,^[8] and Dylan Matthews,^[9] among others.

1. ^{^}

   Galef, Julia (2015) My Storystory, Julia Galef’s Website.

2. ^{^}

   "CFAR is a 501(c)(3) non-profit operating out of Berkeley, California, originally founded in 2012 by Anna Salamon, Julia Galef, Valentine Smith, and Andrew Critch." (Center for Applied Rationality (2022) Mission, Center for Applied Rationality)

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   Galef, Julia (2017) I’m overdue for a career update!, Facebook, February 28.

4. ^{^}

   Galef, Julia (2021) About the podcast, Rationally Speaking.

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   Galef, Julia (2021) The Scout Mindset: Why Some People See Things Clearly and Others Don’t, New York: Portfolio, p. ix.

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   Galef, The Scout Mindset, p. 14.

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   Tetlock, Philip E. (2021) The scouts in Julia Galef's superb new book, Scout Mindset, are the heroes—just as the superforecasters were in Superforecasting., Twitter, April 14.

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   Alexander, Scott (2021) Book Review: The Scout Mindset, Astral Codex Ten, September 29.

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   Matthews, Dylan (2021) The book that changed how I think about thinking: A conversation with writer Julia Galef on how to think less like a soldier and more like a scout, Vox, May 3.

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    Whittlestone, Jess (2017) Improving institutional decision-making, 80,000 Hours, September.

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