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)
Can We End Factory Farming Without Giving Up Meat? (with Bruce Friedrich)
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Our relationship to chatbots (with Claire Boine)
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The good advice you least want (with Cate Hall)
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Why housing costs so much and what can be done about it (with Alex Armlovich)
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How To Pursue Goals without Striving (with Stephen Zerfas)
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Bicameral Minds and Leaderless Tribes (with Tor Parsons)
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How Small Actions Rewrite Identity (with Eric Zimmer)
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The Twelve Levers for a better life (with Jeremy Stevenson)
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The Hidden History of Evidence-Based Everything (with Helen Pearson)
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Is cash a better form of charitable aid? (with Nick Allardice)
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When painful thoughts feel true but aren't (with Christine Padesky)
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Could an international agreement protect us from dangerous AI? (with Malo Bourgo...
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Is patriarchy gone or hiding in plain sight? (with Kate Manne)
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What's true and what's myth about trauma? (with George Bonnano)
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Is string theory BS or the most promising theory in physics? (with Christian Fer...
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Are we in an honesty crisis? (with Christian B. Miller)
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What impact will AI have on jobs and the economy? (with Anton Korinek)
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The seductiveness of secular gurus (with Christopher Kavanagh)
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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)
Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
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 Bra...
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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)
Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
Live at EA Global - The future of U.S. foreign aid (with Dean Karlan)
Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
Improving your skill of emotional regulation (with Shireen Rizvi)
Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
When voting fails (with Nicholas Gruen)
Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
Why aren't we relying on nuclear power? (with Isabelle Boemeke)
Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
A conversation with a person with OCD (with David Adam)
Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
What, if anything, will save the environment? (with Dan Stein)
Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
Are markets rational or is sentiment contagious? (with Alex Imas)
Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
Can you do 100x more good? (with Sjir Hoeijmakers)
Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
What is psychosomatic illness? (with Suzanne O'Sullivan)
Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
What causes mass shootings? (with Ragy Girgis)
Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
Contempt-free public discourse (with Robert Rosenkranz)
Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
Beyond the assumption that humans are rational (with Barry Schwartz)
Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
Will AI superintelligence kill us all? (with Nate Soares)
Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
Do facts have an expiration date? (with Samuel Arbesman)
Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
From prisoner to escaping inner prisons (with Shaka Senghor)
Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
A new paradigm for psychology research (with Slime Mold Time Mold)
Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
Beyond saving lives: happiness and doing good (with Michael Plant)
Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
Darwinian Demons: Climate Change and the AI Arms Race (with Kristian Rönn)
Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
Seeing through cognitive traps (with Alex Edmans)
Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
The most important century (with Holden Karnofsky)
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Should we try to live forever? (with Ariel Zeleznikow-Johnston)
Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
Trying to convince Spencer to be a utilitarian (with Tyler John)
Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
A conversation with an autistic person (with Megan Neff)
Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg