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, economics, self-help, mental health, and technology. We focus on ideas that can be applied right now to make your life better or to help you better understand yourself and the world, aiming to teach you the best mental tools to enhance your learning, self-improvement efforts, and decision-making. • We take on important, thorny questions like: • What's the best way to help a friend or loved one going through a difficult time? How can we make our worldviews more accurate? How can we hone the accuracy

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Most frequent guests

Uri Bram 3 episodes
Michael Nielsen 2 episodes
Paul Bloom 2 episodes
Michael Plant 2 episodes
Will MacAskill 2 episodes
Bradley Tusk 2 episodes
Eric Zimmer 2 episodes
Jeff Sebo 2 episodes
Rob Wiblin 2 episodes
Cassandra Xia 2 episodes

Every guest on Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg

304 guests, ranked by how many people never want them back.

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Roman Yampolskiy
Superintelligence and Consciousness (with Roman Yampolskiy) · Mar 2021

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Seth Godin
Choosing your strategy (with Seth Godin) · Oct 2024

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Oliver Burkeman
How do you leverage your limitations? (with Oliver Burkeman) · Aug 2021

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Ajeya Cotra

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Ada Palmer
Content moderation and its dis-content-moderators (with Ada Palmer) · Jul 2022

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Michael Nielsen
Critiquing Effective Altruism (with Michael Nielsen and Ajeya Cotra) · 2 episodes

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Adam Marblestone
Science is learning from start-ups (with Adam Marblestone) · May 2023

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Ilya Sutskever
What, if anything, do AIs understand? (with ChatGPT Co-Creator Ilya Sutskever) · Oct 2022

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Joseph Henrich
Is psychology the same across cultures? (with Joseph Henrich) · Jul 2024

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Tyler Cowen
Tyler's three laws and twelve rules (with Tyler Cowen) · Dec 2021

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Joe Carlsmith
Utopia on earth and morality without guilt (with Joe Carlsmith) · Aug 2021

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Andy Matuschak
The secrets of effective learning (with Andy Matuschak) · Jul 2021

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Holden Karnofsky
The most important century (with Holden Karnofsky) · Aug 2025

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Joscha Bach
Is the universe a computer? (with Joscha Bach) · Oct 2022

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Tim Urban
What's wrong with society, and how can we fix it? (with Tim Urban) · Aug 2023

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Liv Boeree
Win-Win vs. Moloch, the many-headed monster that may consume us all (with Liv Boeree) · Nov 2023

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Robin Hanson
Systems of governance built on prediction markets (with Robin Hanson) · Sep 2023

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Scott Aaronson
Separating quantum computing hype from reality (with Scott Aaronson) · May 2024

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Peter Singer
Where philosophy meets the real world (with Peter Singer) · Jun 2023

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Nick Bostrom
The path to utopia (with Nick Bostrom) · Aug 2024

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Scott Barry Kaufman
Intelligence and Creativity (with Scott Barry Kaufman) · Dec 2020

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Dwarkesh Patel
Human evolution and AI evolution (with Dwarkesh Patel) · Dec 2024

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Derek Sivers
True things, useful things, and the differences between them (with Derek Sivers) · Mar 2024

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Menno Henselmans
The worst mistakes people make with diet and exercise (with Menno Henselmans) · Jun 2022

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Geoffrey Miller
Is evolutionary psychology just a bunch of "just so" stories? (with Geoffrey Miller) · Sep 2023

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Anil Seth
The range of human perceptual experiences (with Anil Seth) · May 2023

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Malcolm Collins
Sexuality and Dominance Hierarchies (with Malcolm Collins) · Jan 2021

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Paul Bloom
What do we know about psychology that matters? (with Paul Bloom) · 2 episodes

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Adam Mastroianni
How f***ed is psychology? (with Adam Mastroianni) · Apr 2025

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Stuart Ritchie
How can we make science more trustworthy? (with Stuart Ritchie) · Jan 2023

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Tiago Forte
How to build your second brain (with Tiago Forte) · Feb 2023

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David McRaney
Deep canvassing, street epistemology, and other tools of persuasion (with David McRaney) · Jun 2023

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Chris Sparks
Poker and Productivity (with Chris Sparks) · Mar 2021

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Richard Lang
Not seeing your face as a first step to enlightenment? (with Richard Lang) · Mar 2023

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Julia Galef
Scout and Soldier Mindsets (with Julia Galef) · Apr 2021

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Jim O'Shaughnessy
Avoiding major investment mistakes (with Jim O'Shaughnessy) · Feb 2025

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Annie Duke
Two things shape the course of your life: luck and your decisions (with Annie Duke) · Jun 2024

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Ashley Mears
Money, status, power, and sex in nightclubs around the world (with Ashley Mears) · Oct 2023

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Martin Schmalz
Why capitalism doesn't live up to its promises (with Martin Schmalz) · Dec 2022

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Christie Aschwanden
What things in life *shouldn't* we optimize? (with Christie Aschwanden) · Jan 2023

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