Today, we cover a section of Julia Galef's book "The Scout Mindset". She warns against treating your beliefs as part of your identity because they will interfere with truth-seeking: you will seek to protect your beliefs and engage in wars of ideas, adopting what she calls a "soldier mindset" rather than choosing to keep or discard your beliefs based on the facts you encounter (the "scout mindset"). She identifies two ways in which beliefs become identities: feeling embattled and feeling proud. Finally, she suggests "holding your identity lightly" and adopting a truth-seeker identity.

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