Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
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Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
Clearer Thinking is a podcast about ideas that truly matter. If you enjoy learning about powerful, practical concepts and frameworks, wish you had more deep, intellectual conversations in your life, or are looking for non-BS self-improvement, then we think you'll love this podcast! Each week we invi...
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Is string theory BS or the most promising theory in physics? (with Christian Ferko)
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How do we tell the difference between a theory that is incomplete and a theory that is simply wrong? What shoul...
Are we in an honesty crisis? (with Christian B. Miller)
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Is dishonesty best understood as a permanent feature of human nature or as a condition that worsens when incent...
What impact will AI have on jobs and the economy? (with Anton Korinek)
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Could AI trigger an economic break as large as the Industrial Revolution, or even larger? What changes when lab...
The seductiveness of secular gurus (with Christopher Kavanagh)
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What makes broad, all-encompassing worldviews so attractive in periods of institutional distrust? Why do charis...
What beats intuition when it comes to doing good? (with Marcus Davis)
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Can averages explain a human life? (with Steven C. Hayes)
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Should science stop worshiping statistical significance? (with Andrew Gelman)
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What happens when your co-workers are AIs? (with Evan Ratliff)
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Long COVID: what are the scientific facts? (with Carmen Scheibenbogen)
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Our 300th episode! - How to have better intellectual conversations (with Uri Bram)
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How to use your career to help the world (with Devon Fritz)
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Are personality types a statistical mirage? (with Colin DeYoung)
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Ambitious goals for reducing animal suffering (with Jeff Sebo)
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Live at EA Global - The future of U.S. foreign aid (with Dean Karlan)
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What is the core public interest case for foreign aid beyond soft power? How should we define safety and prospe...
Improving your skill of emotional regulation (with Shireen Rizvi)
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How can we distinguish “real CBT” from supportive talk - does it include homework, clear goals, or a manualized...
When voting fails (with Nicholas Gruen)
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Which decisions should be made by election and which by random sampling? Where is competition healthy for choos...
Why aren't we relying on nuclear power? (with Isabelle Boemeke)
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What explains fearing nuclear more than the harms we tolerate from fossil fuels? Can we judge energy risk by ev...
A conversation with a person with OCD (with David Adam)
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Where is the line between ordinary intrusive thoughts and an OCD pattern that hijacks the day? How do obsession...
What, if anything, will save the environment? (with Dan Stein)
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Are we going to solve climate change with technology rather than personal sacrifice? If most offsets fail on ad...
Are markets rational or is sentiment contagious? (with Alex Imas)
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Are stock prices set by cash flows or crowd vibes? Why do bubbles last if “smart money” can short them? What sh...
Can you do 100x more good? (with Sjir Hoeijmakers)
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What does “100x more good” mean relative to your current giving? How can your giving more closely align with yo...
What is psychosomatic illness? (with Suzanne O'Sullivan)
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What causes mass shootings? (with Ragy Girgis)
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What do we miss when we treat public shootings as the whole story of mass murder? If public events are a small...
Contempt-free public discourse (with Robert Rosenkranz)
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What makes a forum truly open-minded rather than performative? When does listening change minds instead of just...
Beyond the assumption that humans are rational (with Barry Schwartz)
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What does rationality mean when life won’t fit a spreadsheet? If models demand one common scale, what happens t...
Will AI superintelligence kill us all? (with Nate Soares)
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Are the existential risks posed by superhuman AI fundamentally different from prior technological threats such...
Do facts have an expiration date? (with Samuel Arbesman)
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What does it mean to treat facts as drafts rather than monuments? If truth is something we approach, how do we...
From prisoner to escaping inner prisons (with Shaka Senghor)
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What changes when we treat violence as a human problem rather than a demographic story? Are fear, anger, and sh...
A new paradigm for psychology research (with Slime Mold Time Mold)
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What changes when psychology stops naming traits and starts naming parts - can “entities and rules” turn fuzzy...
Beyond saving lives: happiness and doing good (with Michael Plant)
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Are we trying to maximize moment-to-moment happiness or life satisfaction? Can self-reports really guide policy...
Darwinian Demons: Climate Change and the AI Arms Race (with Kristian Rönn)
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Are existential risks from AI fundamentally different from those posed by previous technologies such as nuclear...
Seeing through cognitive traps (with Alex Edmans)
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How do we distinguish correlation from causation in organizational success? How common is it to mistake luck or...
The most important century (with Holden Karnofsky)
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Has society reached ‘peak progress’? Can we sustain the level of economic growth that technology has enabled ov...
Should we try to live forever? (with Ariel Zeleznikow-Johnston)
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Why do humans live as long as they do? Since whales have literally tons more cells than humans, why don't they...
Trying to convince Spencer to be a utilitarian (with Tyler John)
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How has utilitarianism evolved from early Chinese Mohism to the formulations of Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart...
A conversation with an autistic person (with Megan Neff)
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What does autism feel like from the inside? Do autistic people lack empathy? What is context insensitivity? Wha...
AI: Autonomous or controllable? Pick one (with Anthony Aguirre)
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Is AI that's both superintelligent and aligned even possible? Does increased intelligence necessarily entail de...
How much does global population decline matter? (with Dean Spears)
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What is the current global birth rate? What factors have contributed, or are currently contributing, to this ra...
Is AI going to ruin everything? (with Gabriel Alfour)
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Is AI going to ruin everything? What kind of AI-related dangers should we be most worried about? What do good i...
What listeners think Spencer's wrong about: steel-manning critiques
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What defines a cult? Is there such a thing as a good cult? Do Clearer Thinking's tools actually help people? Wh...