I didn’t read Scout Mindset yet, but I’ve listened to Julia’s interviews on podcasts about it, and I have read the other books that Rob mentions in that paragraph.
The reason I nodded when Rob wrote that was that Julia’s memetics are better. Her ideas are written in a way which stick in one’s mind, and thus spread more easily. I don’t think any of those other sources are bad—in fact I get more from them than I expect to from Scout Mindset—but Scout Mindset is more practically oriented (and optimized for today’s political climate) in a way which those other books are not.
It also operates at a different, earlier level in the “EA Funnel”: the level at which you can make people realize that more is possible. Those other books already require someone to be asking “how can I Do Good Better?” before they’ll pick it up.
I didn’t read Scout Mindset yet, but I’ve listened to Julia’s interviews on podcasts about it, and I have read the other books that Rob mentions in that paragraph.
The reason I nodded when Rob wrote that was that Julia’s memetics are better. Her ideas are written in a way which stick in one’s mind, and thus spread more easily. I don’t think any of those other sources are bad—in fact I get more from them than I expect to from Scout Mindset—but Scout Mindset is more practically oriented (and optimized for today’s political climate) in a way which those other books are not.
It also operates at a different, earlier level in the “EA Funnel”: the level at which you can make people realize that more is possible. Those other books already require someone to be asking “how can I Do Good Better?” before they’ll pick it up.