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 invite a brilliant guest to bring four important ideas to discuss for an in-depth conversation. Topics include psychology, society, behavior change, philosophy, science, artificial intelligence, math, eco...
Episodes (323)
Physical limits and the long-term future (with Anders Sandberg)
Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
Becoming a goat to avoid existential dread (with Thomas Thwaites)
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AI apocalypticism vs. AI optimism (with Adam Russell)
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Should we trust papers published in top social science journals? (with Daniel La...
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Is psychology the same across cultures? (with Joseph Henrich)
Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
Spencer on The 80,000 Hours Podcast discussing money & happiness and hype vs. va...
Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
Concrete actions anyone can take to help improve AI safety (with Kat Woods)
Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
What do socialism and effective altruism have in common? (with Garrison Lovely)
Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
Raising our happiness baseline (with Sasha Chapin)
Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
Worldviews, altruism, and embracing variance (with Emmett Shear)
Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
Two things shape the course of your life: luck and your decisions (with Annie Du...
Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
What we know and don't know about nutrition (with Gil Carvalho)
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Measuring everything that matters (with Doug Hubbard)
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What happens when you follow 100 self-help books to the letter? (with Kristen Me...
Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
Aligning society with our deepest values and sources of meaning (with Joe Edelma...
Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
Separating quantum computing hype from reality (with Scott Aaronson)
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Should we pause AI development until we're sure we can do it safely? (with Joep...
Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
What should the Effective Altruism movement learn from the SBF / FTX scandal? (w...
Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
Why are so many people experiencing homelessness in big cities in the U.S., and...
Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
Common body language mistakes and how to avoid making them (with Blake Eastman)
Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
True things, useful things, and the differences between them (with Derek Sivers)
Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
Should we widen our moral circles to include animals, insects, and AIs? (with Je...
Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
How to have a positive impact with your career (with Benjamin Hilton)
Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
Spencer's takeaways after 200 episodes (with Spencer Greenberg)
Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
Psychological change in a single session (with Jessica Schleider)
Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
Academic group think, free speech norms, and the psychology of time (with Anne W...
Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
How can Stoicism improve your life? (with Bill Irvine)
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Is there a grand unified theory of everyone? (with Michael Muthukrishna)
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The alternate histories and possible futures of nuclear weapons (with Carl Robic...
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How can AIs know what we want if *we* don't even know? (with Geoffrey Irving)
Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
Schemas, goals, values, and the pursuit of happiness (with Jeff Perron)
Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and beyond (with David Burns)
Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
There are shrinks, and then there are SUPER-shrinks (with Daryl Chow)
Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
Bringing conspiracy theorists back from the brink (with Jesse Richardson)
Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
Simulacra levels, moral mazes, and low-hanging fruit (with Zvi Mowshowitz)
Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
Effectively encouraging people to give more (with Josh Greene)
Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
We can't mitigate AI risks we've never imagined (with Darren McKee)
Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
What tools do students really need in order to become successful humans? (with A...
Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
Rethinking what it means to learn math (with Eugenia Cheng)
Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
Values, principles, and behavior change (with Eric Zimmer)
Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
Escaping a cult: physically, mentally, and emotionally (with Daniella Mestyanek...
Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
Win-Win vs. Moloch, the many-headed monster that may consume us all (with Liv Bo...
Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
Do technological innovations yield net gains in the long run? (with Justin Smith...
Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
Money, status, power, and sex in nightclubs around the world (with Ashley Mears)
Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
Is bad air quality slowly harming us? (with Richard Bruns)
Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
Journalism in the age of AI (with Dylan Matthews)
Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
Experiments for enlightenment and fundamental wellbeing (with Jeffery Martin)
Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
Mothers who harm their children for attention (with Andrea Dunlop)
Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
Is evolutionary psychology just a bunch of "just so" stories? (with Geoffrey Mil...
Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
Systems of governance built on prediction markets (with Robin Hanson)
Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg