The Michael Shermer Show | 21 August 2021 | 1h 46m | Listen Later 
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Interview with Julia Galef about her book The Scout Mindset. Discusses how to think more rationally; her scout mindset metaphor; how the empirical claims of things like climate science and vaccines compare with religious, political, or ideological beliefs; implicit racism; and the value of being able to describe your opponent’s view to their satisfaction.
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My penultimate question, how do you reconcile a deterministic universe with free will? My final question, how would you resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict?
Good questions, but normally not the sort of thing one is expected to respond to on the spur of the moment.