Spencer Greenberg on Valuism and the 12 Psychological Levers Behind Every Self-Help Book

In this episode I talk to Spencer Greenberg about his life philosophy, valuism, and his surprising finding that almost nobody has genuinely harmful intrinsic values. We also get into a worry technique most people have never heard of, why the Dodo Bird verdict is more complicated than it looks, what AI therapy bots get wrong, and why schools don’t teach any of this.Listen on Spotify or watch on YouTube. TranscriptBelow is a lightly edited transcript, courtesy of AI:Spencer Greenberg: One of the striking conclusions that we came to is that it seems nobody, or almost nobody, has truly harmful intrinsic values. When people get into trouble doing bad things in pursuit of their values, it’s not because the intrinsic value is bad. It’s because the way they pursue their intrinsic value is bad.Ariel (00:19): Joining me today is Spencer Greenberg. Spencer has a PhD in applied math from NYU, and he co-founded one of the first financial firms to use machine learning. He left finance to start…