Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg Podcast
1) Seeing through cognitive traps (with Alex Edmans)
Read the full transcript here. (https://podcast.clearerthinking.org/episode/278/#transcript) β’ How do we distinguish correlation from causation in organizational success? How common is it to mistake l...Show More
2) The most important century (with Holden Karnofsky)
Has society reached βpeak progressβ? Can we sustain the level of economic growth that technology has enabled over the last century? Have researchers plucked the last of science's "low-hanging fruit?" ...Show More
3) Should we try to live forever? (with Ariel Zeleznikow-Johnston)
Why do humans live as long as they do? Since whales have literally tons more cells than humans, why don't they develop cancers at much higher rates than humans? What can the genetic trade-offs we obse...Show More
4) Trying to convince Spencer to be a utilitarian (with Tyler John)
Read the full transcript here. (https://podcast.clearerthinking.org/episode/275/#transcript) β’ How has utilitarianism evolved from early Chinese Mohism to the formulations of Jeremy Bentham and John S...Show More
5) A conversation with an autistic person (with Megan Neff)
Read the full transcript here. (https://podcast.clearerthinking.org/episode/274/#transcript) β’ What does autism feel like from the inside? Do autistic people lack empathy? What is context insensitivit...Show More
6) AI: Autonomous or controllable? Pick one (with Anthony Aguirre)
Read the full transcript here. (https://podcast.clearerthinking.org/episode/273/#transcript) β’ Is AI that's both superintelligent and aligned even possible? Does increased intelligence necessarily ent...Show More
7) How much does global population decline matter? (with Dean Spears)
Read the full transcript here. (https://podcast.clearerthinking.org/episode/272/#transcript) β’ What is the current global birth rate? What factors have contributed, or are currently contributing, to t...Show More
8) Is AI going to ruin everything? (with Gabriel Alfour)
Read the full transcript here. (https://podcast.clearerthinking.org/episode/271/#transcript) β’ Is AI going to ruin everything? What kind of AI-related dangers should we be most worried about? What do ...Show More
9) What listeners think Spencer's wrong about: steel-manning critiques
What defines a cult? Is there such a thing as a good cult? Do Clearer Thinking's tools actually help people? Why does Clearer Thinking share its tools for free for everyone to use? How legitimate is t...Show More
10) What do we know about psychology that matters? (with Paul Bloom)
Read the full transcript here. (https://podcast.clearerthinking.org/episode/269/#transcript) β’ In light of the replication crisis, should social scientists try to replicate every major finding in the ...Show More