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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Every guest on Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg

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

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Nick Gray
Everyone — including you! — should host more events (with Nick Gray) · Sep 2024

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Pablos Holman
Inventions, stories, and ideas that don't matter (with Pablos Holman) · Oct 2022

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Seth Stephens-Davidowitz
Search Data and Self-Improvement (with Seth Stephens-Davidowitz) · Mar 2021

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Shaka Senghor
From prisoner to escaping inner prisons (with Shaka Senghor) · Oct 2025

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Walt Hickey
What we really mean when we say that something will "probably" happen (with Walt Hickey) · Mar 2022

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William Irvine
How can Stoicism improve your life? (with Bill Irvine) · Feb 2024

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Alex Imas
Are markets rational or is sentiment contagious? (with Alex Imas) · Nov 2025

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Andrew Gelman
Should science stop worshiping statistical significance? (with Andrew Gelman) · Mar 2026

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Anton Korinek
What impact will AI have on jobs and the economy? (with Anton Korinek) · Apr 2026

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Benjamin Todd
How to use your career to have a large impact (with Ben Todd) · Sep 2021

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Elie Hassenfeld
Why it's so hard to have confidence that charities are doing good (with Elie Hassenfeld) · Mar 2022

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Evan Ratliff
What happens when your co-workers are AIs? (with Evan Ratliff) · Feb 2026

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Jeff Sebo
Ambitious goals for reducing animal suffering (with Jeff Sebo) · 2 episodes

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Joshua Greene
Effectively encouraging people to give more (with Josh Greene) · Dec 2023

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Mike Pesca
Normalizing catastrophes and catastrophizing normalcy (with Mike Pesca) · Aug 2023

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Rob Wiblin
Spencer on The 80,000 Hours Podcast discussing money & happiness and hype vs. value (with Rob Wiblin) · 2 episodes

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Zvi Mowshowitz
Simulacra levels, moral mazes, and low-hanging fruit (with Zvi Mowshowitz) · Dec 2023

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Anthony Aguirre
AI: Autonomous or controllable? Pick one (with Anthony Aguirre) · Jul 2025

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Eric Schwitzgebel
A philosophical theory of jerks (with Eric Schwitzgebel) · Jun 2022

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Jesse Morton
A former Al-Qaeda recruiter speaks (with Jesse Morton) · May 2022

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Michael Muthukrishna
Is there a grand unified theory of everyone? (with Michael Muthukrishna) · Feb 2024

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Nick Gillespie
Has political polarization been misunderstood? (with Nick Gillespie) · Apr 2023

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Buck Shlegeris
Taking pleasure in being wrong (with Buck Shlegeris) · Jun 2022

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Connor Leahy
Will AI destroy civilization in the near future? (with Connor Leahy) · Jun 2023

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Crystal Dilworth
The science of addiction (with Crystal Dilworth) · Feb 2022

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Eugenia Cheng
Rethinking what it means to learn math (with Eugenia Cheng) · Nov 2023

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Geoffrey Irving
How can AIs know what we want if *we* don't even know? (with Geoffrey Irving) · Jan 2024

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Katja Grace
Dealing with our "groupstruckness" and "boundedness" (with Katja Grace) · May 2022

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Matt Grossmann
How broken is social science? (with Matt Grossman) · Sep 2021

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Dax Flame
Letting ChatGPT make your decisions for you (with Dax Flame) · Mar 2023

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Gil Carvalho
What we know and don't know about nutrition (with Gil Carvalho) · May 2024

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Manvir Singh
Shamanism, witchcraft, and the power of narrative (with Manvir Singh) · Jun 2025

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Michael Vassar
Preference Falsification and Postmodernism (with Michael Vassar) · Feb 2021

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Nicholas Dirks
What good is college now that we can learn everything for free on the internet? (with Nick Dirks) · Mar 2023

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Richard Nisbett
Conscious Processes and Intelligence (with Richard Nisbett) · Jun 2021

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Anne-Laure Le Cunff
How to be productive without burning out (with Anne-Laure Le Cunff) · Oct 2024

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Ariel Zeleznikow-Johnston
Should we try to live forever? (with Ariel Zeleznikow-Johnston) · Aug 2025

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Barry Schwartz
Beyond the assumption that humans are rational (with Barry Schwartz) · Oct 2025

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Kate Manne
Is patriarchy gone or hiding in plain sight? (with Kate Manne) · May 2026

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Kristian Rönn
Darwinian Demons: Climate Change and the AI Arms Race (with Kristian Rönn) · Sep 2025

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