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)
Ambition and expected value at extremes (with Habiba Islam)
Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
Career science, open science, and inspired science (with Alexa Tullett)
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Estimating the long-term impact of our actions today (with Will MacAskill)
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The differences between analytic and continental philosophy (with Alexander Pres...
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Voting method reform in the US (with Aaron Hamlin)
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Critiquing Effective Altruism (with Michael Nielsen and Ajeya Cotra)
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How to form habits effectively (with Jim Davies)
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Are scientific journals just parasites? (with Chris Chambers)
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Human bias in the definition of intelligence (with Alene Anello)
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Guess culture vs. ask culture (with Will Eden and Sam Rosen)
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Are we all the heroes of our own stories? (with Cate Hall)
Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
Content moderation and its dis-content-moderators (with Ada Palmer)
Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
Exploring sex science and pseudo-science (with Mary Roach)
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The worst mistakes people make with diet and exercise (with Menno Henselmans)
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Communicating what you really mean (with Misha Glouberman)
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Taking pleasure in being wrong (with Buck Shlegeris)
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A philosophical theory of jerks (with Eric Schwitzgebel)
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How meanings get words and social sciences get broken (with Literal Banana)
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Dealing with our "groupstruckness" and "boundedness" (with Katja Grace)
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Math as a perspective on life (with Marcus du Sautoy)
Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
A former Al-Qaeda recruiter speaks (with Jesse Morton)
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Cognitive biases and animal welfare (with Leah Edgerton)
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Is it bad to coerce yourself to do unpleasant things? (with Matt Goldenberg)
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Our 100th episode! (with Uri Bram and Spencer Greenberg)
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Volunteering to be infected with COVID — for science! (with Josh Morrison)
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What we really mean when we say that something will "probably" happen (with Walt...
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Why is self-compassion so hard? (with Kristin Neff)
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Why it's so hard to have confidence that charities are doing good (with Elie Has...
Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
Shovelgloves and extreme moderation (with Reinhard Engels)
Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
Mental models that apply across disciplines (with Blas Moros)
Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
Accessing pure consciousness at any moment (with Loch Kelly)
Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
Fight, flight, freeze, fawn (with Sasha Raskin)
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The science of addiction (with Crystal Dilworth)
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Evidence, reason, and compassion for all sentient beings (with Jamie Woodhouse)
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Can the economy grow indefinitely? (with Alyssa Vance)
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How many minds do you have? (with Kaj Sotala)
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Are you a wamb or a nerd? (with Tom Chivers)
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Behind the scenes of the online dating world (with Tom Quisel)
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The clash between social justice and anti-wokeness (with Amber Dawn and Holly El...
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Tyler's three laws and twelve rules (with Tyler Cowen)
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Freezing to (not) death: cryonics and the quest for immortality (with Max Marty)
Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
The pre/trans fallacy, and why you should learn the skill of coaching (with Eben...
Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
What does humanity need to survive after a global catastrophe? (with David Denke...
Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
To be successful, should you focus on your strengths or your weaknesses? (with A...
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When is suffering good? (with Paul Bloom)
Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
What causes progress? And how can we stop it from slowing? (with Jason Crawford)
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Clearer paths and sharper ideas (with Lynette Bye)
Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
How to measure impact, and why we may have all been doing it wrong (with Michael...
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Major and minor scales of consciousness (with Andrés Gomez Emilsson)
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The art of being a creative person (with Georgia Shreve)
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