The Scout Mindset by Julia Galef ?

Haven't read it; she does repeat the point that scientific observation is better than the simple perspective of utilitarian selfishness.  However, science as utilitarian clarity is not new, and Husserl and Whitehead, among recent philosophers, have developed the "scout mindset" well before Ms. Galef discovered it for herself, unwittingly ironically using a positive version of the "Straw Vulcan":  objective scientific scoutism good, individual selfish utilitarianism bad.

Each generation may tend to splay itself along classical positions, and Galef's metaphor/process is likely helping the general objectivist /scientistic perspective...however, what's new in that save a perhaps-overly-simplistic championing of scientific methodism?  Husserl, Whitehead, and others have promulgated the "better and better"...but perhaps too complexly for the many, re the key, basic idea of objective > subjective observation.

So, perhaps a "Moses" shtick in play(?), helpful re selfish complexes, but obviously she unwittingly ironically targets selfish rationalism on the reactionary "right," but not so vis a vis selfish rationalism on the falsely "progressive left."  That difference--between genuine philosophers, and "Moses complex" dichotomizing popularizers--is perhaps why reading the likes of Husserl, Whitehead, et al.--once one has grasped "unbiased objectivism > selfish subjectivism in physis"--is more worthwhile....