Spencer Greenberg
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 28 Jul
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Often when people are doing things like constantly checking news that's stressing them out, they're engaging in weird coping behaviors that actually don't allow their brain to become more okay with the thing.
Imagine you had a magic dial and you could control how much of different emotions you would feel.
Take your fear.
Would you dial it down to zero?
I think I'm prone to throwing more hours at things.
That is not the best way to be more productive.
It's like thinking that the way that you win a race is by going at maximum speed at every single moment.
No, that's actually how you get injured or burn out.
Failing to accept your limitations can actually be disastrous towards the goals that you care about.
There's actually a mathematical equation we came up with.
It's about like how much value you produce and it splits into three factors.
Thanks so much for having me.
Yeah, absolutely.
It resonates with me.
And I think we should acknowledge these are incredibly difficult topics to work on psychologically.
You know, we have constantly changing things in the AI space.
I can absolutely relate to the fear that this could go really badly on many different levels from like, you know, very...
more benign harms to very, very severe harms or even existential catastrophe.
You know, topics like animal welfare, like the amount of suffering involved is staggering and even thinking about it can be really disturbing.
So I absolutely relate to these things and also say, yeah, these are challenging topics.
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