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Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg — 326 episodes · page 1 of 4

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The Race to Replace Us With AI (with Garrison Lovely)

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Why we procrastinate, and what actually helps (with Itamar Shatz)

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Neurodiversity, Autism, Awe, and Religious Experience (with Jonathan Machnee)

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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 Bourgon)

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Is patriarchy gone or hiding in plain sight? (with Kate Manne)

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Is string theory BS or the most promising theory in physics? (with Christian Ferko)

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What's true and what's myth about trauma? (with George Bonnano)

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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)

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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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Improving your skill of emotional regulation (with Shireen Rizvi)

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When voting fails (with Nicholas Gruen)

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Why aren't we relying on nuclear power? (with Isabelle Boemeke)

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A conversation with a person with OCD (with David Adam)

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What, if anything, will save the environment? (with Dan Stein)

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Are markets rational or is sentiment contagious? (with Alex Imas)

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Can you do 100x more good? (with Sjir Hoeijmakers)

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What is psychosomatic illness? (with Suzanne O'Sullivan)

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What causes mass shootings? (with Ragy Girgis)

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Contempt-free public discourse (with Robert Rosenkranz)

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Beyond the assumption that humans are rational (with Barry Schwartz)

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Will AI superintelligence kill us all? (with Nate Soares)

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Do facts have an expiration date? (with Samuel Arbesman)

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From prisoner to escaping inner prisons (with Shaka Senghor)

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A new paradigm for psychology research (with Slime Mold Time Mold)

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Beyond saving lives: happiness and doing good (with Michael Plant)

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Darwinian Demons: Climate Change and the AI Arms Race (with Kristian Rönn)

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Seeing through cognitive traps (with Alex Edmans)

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The most important century (with Holden Karnofsky)

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Should we try to live forever? (with Ariel Zeleznikow-Johnston)

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Trying to convince Spencer to be a utilitarian (with Tyler John)

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A conversation with an autistic person (with Megan Neff)

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AI: Autonomous or controllable? Pick one (with Anthony Aguirre)

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How much does global population decline matter? (with Dean Spears)

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Is AI going to ruin everything? (with Gabriel Alfour)

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What listeners think Spencer's wrong about: steel-manning critiques

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What do we know about psychology that matters? (with Paul Bloom)

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Bringing your "A-game" to your relationships (with Annie Lalla)

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The rival philosophies to Stoicism that you've never heard about (with Greg Lopez)

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What can we all agree on? (with Bradley Tusk)

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Shamanism, witchcraft, and the power of narrative (with Manvir Singh)

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Which Spencer is real? Spencer vs. his AI clone

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Too many mental health challenges and not enough psychiatrists (with Jacob Appel)

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Misinformation from all sides (with Brian Dunning)

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A conversation with a rigid perfectionist who has OCPD (with Darryl Rossignol)

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Simple and effective methods for helping people that nonprofits often ignore (with Kanika Bahl)

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How to unleash student potential in education (with Jack Despain Zhou)

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How f***ed is psychology? (with Adam Mastroianni)

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A conversation with a multiple-time survivor of sexual abuse

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A story can change the world (with Elizabeth Cox)

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The heavy price you'll have to pay to have a healthy relationship (with David Burns)

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The skills every adult human should have (with Raffi Grinberg)

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Rethinking our assumptions about happiness (with Stephanie Harrison)

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Evidence-Based Medicine and its discontents (with Gordon Guyatt)

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AI, US-China relations, and lessons from the OpenAI board (with Helen Toner)

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Getting a handle on your goals and big life changes (with Tee Barnett)

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Avoiding major investment mistakes (with Jim O'Shaughnessy)

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Creating a new city from scratch (with Erick Brimen)

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What's the most effective type of therapy? (with Matthew Smout)

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A conversation about Borderline Personality Disorder (with Kayla Spicer)

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Could the placebo effect be bullshit? (with Literal Banana)

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Making better decisions by thinking like an artist (with Elspeth Kirkman)

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Are the culture wars harming science? (with Cremieux)

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How can you learn more efficiently? (with Scott Young)

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A conversation with a narcissist (with Jacob Skidmore)

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What effects does guaranteed income have on U.S. citizens? (with Eva Vivalt)

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Human evolution and AI evolution (with Dwarkesh Patel)

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Should sex work be a crime? (with Kaytlin Bailey)

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When does productivity become toxic? (with Israa Nasir)

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A conversation with a sociopath (with M.E. Thomas)

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Highs and lows on the road out of the replication crisis (with Brian Nosek)

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Suffering and the self (with Jay Garfield)

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Choosing your strategy (with Seth Godin)

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How to be productive without burning out (with Anne-Laure Le Cunff)

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Does simply giving people money truly enable them to escape poverty? (with Miriam Laker)

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Who really controls US elections? (with Bradley Tusk)

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Communities of belief vs. communities of chemistry (with Tyler Alterman)

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Everyone — including you! — should host more events (with Nick Gray)

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What do we know for sure about human psychology? (with Simine Vazire)

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