Can We End Factory Farming Without Giving Up Meat? (with Bruce Friedrich)
Read the full transcript here. Why is producing meat so inefficient? How does animal agriculture contribute to hunger and malnutrition? How...
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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 yo...
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20 of 323 episodesOur relationship to chatbots (with Claire Boine)
Read the full transcript here. What makes an attachment to AI meaningfully different from an attachment to a human, animal, or fictional cha...
The good advice you least want (with Cate Hall)
Read the full transcript here. Why do people gravitate toward self-help that reinforces the strategies they already use well? How can we ide...
Why housing costs so much and what can be done about it (with Alex Armlovich)
Read the full transcript here. How large is the housing crisis, and why does it impose trillions of dollars in economic costs? Why has housi...
How To Pursue Goals without Striving (with Stephen Zerfas)
Read the full transcript here. Why can the same meditation technique produce emotional openness in one person and dissociation in another? H...
Bicameral Minds and Leaderless Tribes (with Tor Parsons)
Read the full transcript here. What happens to a community when no one has the formally recognized authority to punish, exclude, or forgive?...
How Small Actions Rewrite Identity (with Eric Zimmer)
Read the full transcript here. What changes when we stop imagining transformation as a single breakthrough and start seeing it as thousands...
The Twelve Levers for a better life (with Jeremy Stevenson)
Read the full transcript here. Why is so much self-help useless, and why is some of it genuinely life-changing? What separates a powerful ps...
The Hidden History of Evidence-Based Everything (with Helen Pearson)
Read the full transcript here. How do we know whether the things we do every day actually work? Why do so many practices in medicine, parent...
Is cash a better form of charitable aid? (with Nick Allardice)
Read the full transcript here. How much good is lost when charity optimizes only for what can be measured? When does a cost-effectiveness mo...
When painful thoughts feel true but aren't (with Christine Padesky)
Read the full transcript here. Why do our minds sometimes need experiments more than insight? What changes when therapy becomes a way of pra...
Could an international agreement protect us from dangerous AI? (with Malo Bourgon)
Read the full transcript here. What are the world’s leading AI companies actually trying to build when they talk about superintelligence? Is...
Is patriarchy gone or hiding in plain sight? (with Kate Manne)
Read the full transcript here. What should count as trauma, and what gets lost when the word expands to cover ordinary distress? Why do some...
Is string theory BS or the most promising theory in physics? (with Christian Ferko)
Read the full transcript here. How do we tell the difference between a theory that is incomplete and a theory that is simply wrong? What sho...
What's true and what's myth about trauma? (with George Bonnano)
Read the full transcript here. What should count as trauma, and what gets lost when the word expands to cover ordinary distress? Why do some...
Are we in an honesty crisis? (with Christian B. Miller)
Read the full transcript here. Is dishonesty best understood as a permanent feature of human nature or as a condition that worsens when ince...
What impact will AI have on jobs and the economy? (with Anton Korinek)
Read the full transcript here. Could AI trigger an economic break as large as the Industrial Revolution, or even larger? What changes when l...
The seductiveness of secular gurus (with Christopher Kavanagh)
Read the full transcript here. What makes broad, all-encompassing worldviews so attractive in periods of institutional distrust? Why do char...
What beats intuition when it comes to doing good? (with Marcus Davis)
Read the full transcript here. If you enjoy our podcast, we have some exciting news – we’ve just launched a new membership called Clearer Th...
Can averages explain a human life? (with Steven C. Hayes)
Read the full transcript here. If you enjoy our podcast, we have some exciting news – we’ve just launched a new membership called Clearer Th...