Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
Spencer Greenberg's long interviews on applied psychology; judgments and figures can be checked against the official transcript.
1:14:06The first to warn of AI extinction risk now build it themselves
Sam Altman, Dario Amodei, and others publicly warned of AI as an existential risk before they became famous—yet today they're building it at full speed. The ones actually denying the risk are instead CEOs of external tech giants like Amazon and Microsoft.
56:01Procrastination Isn't a Willpower Problem: You'll Fail With the Same Plan Next Time
Procrastination is delaying despite knowing it's harmful, and about one in five adults does it chronically. Anxiety, distraction, burnout and perfectionism each need different fixes, but they share one premise: change nothing about the plan and nothing about the result changes.
1:35:37Autism isn't a line, it's a ten-dimensional spectrum with four genetic clusters
DSM-5 puts Musk and someone who can't dress themselves in the same bucket, but autism has no biomarkers — only four genetic clusters and a pile of misread labels.
1:07:3055 Years of Telling People to Eat Less Meat Has Failed; Alternative Meat Is the Only Way Out
Global per-capita meat consumption breaks records year after year, and the campaign to persuade people to go vegetarian has failed; the only thing that can change the trajectory is making plant-based and cultivated meat match real meat on price and taste.