Best Good Human Factory Podcasts (2025)

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“Humanity Learned Almost Nothing From COVID-19” by niplav 8:45

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Summary: Looking over humanity's response to the COVID-19 pandemic, almostsix years later, reveals that we've forgotten to fulfill our intent atpreparing for the next pandemic. I rant. content warning: A single carefully placed slur. If we want to create a world free of pandemics and other biologicalcatastrophes, the time to act is now. —US White H…

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“Consider donating to Alex Bores, author of the RAISE Act” by Eric Neyman 50:28

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Written by Eric Neyman, in my personal capacity. The views expressed here are my own. Thanks to Zach Stein-Perlman, Jesse Richardson, and many others for comments. Over the last several years, I’ve written a bunch of posts about politics and political donations. In this post, I’ll tell you about one of the best donation opportunities that I’ve ever…

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“Meditation is dangerous” by Algon 7:26

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Here's a story I've heard a couple of times. A youngish person is looking for some solutions to their depression, chronic pain, ennui or some other cognitive flaw. They're open to new experiences and see a meditator gushing about how amazing meditation is for joy, removing suffering, clearing one's mind, improving focus etc. They invite the young p…

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#222 Rick Brennan — From World Champion Bodybuilder to Wrongful Accusation and Redemption 1:15:19

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This week on the Good Humans Podcast, I sit down with Rick Brennan — a world champion bodybuilder, fitness coach, and mental resilience powerhouse whose story goes far beyond the gym. Rick opens up about his incredible journey from achieving global success in bodybuilding to facing one of the darkest moments of his life — being wrongfully accused o…

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“That Mad Olympiad” by Tomás B. 26:41

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"I heard Chen started distilling the day after he was born. He's only four years old, if you can believe it. He's written 18 novels. His first words were, "I'm so here for it!" Adrian said. He's my little brother. Mom was busy in her world model. She says her character is like a "villainess" or something - I kinda worry it's a sex thing. It's for s…

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“The ‘Length’ of ‘Horizons’” by Adam Scholl 14:15

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Current AI models are strange. They can speak—often coherently, sometimes even eloquently—which is wild. They can predict the structure of proteins, beat the best humans at many games, recall more facts in most domains than human experts; yet they also struggle to perform simple tasks, like using computer cursors, maintaining basic logical consiste…

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“Don’t Mock Yourself” by Algon 4:10

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About half a year ago, I decided to try stop insulting myself for two weeks. No more self-deprecating humour, calling myself a fool, or thinking I'm pathetic. Why? Because it felt vaguely corrosive. Let me tell you how it went. Spoiler: it went well. The first thing I noticed was how often I caught myself about to insult myself. It happened like mu…

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“If Anyone Builds It Everyone Dies, a semi-outsider review” by dvd 26:01

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About me and this review: I don’t identify as a member of the rationalist community, and I haven’t thought much about AI risk. I read AstralCodexTen and used to read Zvi Mowshowitz before he switched his blog to covering AI. Thus, I’ve long had a peripheral familiarity with LessWrong. I picked up IABIED in response to Scott Alexander's review, and …

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1% Pod - Discovering places that leave you in awe. 13:54

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Today I discuss the last place in nature that left me in awe. Send me a DM on Instagram saying "I wanna join the club" to join our FREE mindfulness and gratitude accountability community :) FREE LSKD SPORTING CLUB WORKSHOP APPLICATION - https://form.typeform.com/to/DSPSnvEH 1% Good Club Book!! The Good Human Factory Amazon Booktopia Cooper's Links …

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“The Most Common Bad Argument In These Parts” by J Bostock 8:11

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I've noticed an antipattern. It's definitely on the dark pareto-frontier of "bad argument" and "I see it all the time amongst smart people". I'm confident it's the worst, common argument I see amongst rationalists and EAs. I don't normally crosspost to the EA forum, but I'm doing it now. I call it Exhaustive Free Association. Exhaustive Free Associ…

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“Towards a Typology of Strange LLM Chains-of-Thought” by 1a3orn 17:34

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Intro LLMs being trained with RLVR (Reinforcement Learning from Verifiable Rewards) start off with a 'chain-of-thought' (CoT) in whatever language the LLM was originally trained on. But after a long period of training, the CoT sometimes starts to look very weird; to resemble no human language; or even to grow completely unintelligible. Why might th…

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“I take antidepressants. You’re welcome” by Elizabeth 6:09

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It's amazing how much smarter everyone else gets when I take antidepressants. It makes sense that the drugs work on other people, because there's nothing in me to fix. I am a perfect and wise arbiter of not only my own behavior but everyone else's, which is a heavy burden because some of ya’ll are terrible at life. You date the wrong people. You ta…

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“Inoculation prompting: Instructing models to misbehave at train-time can improve run-time behavior” by Sam Marks 4:06

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This is a link post for two papers that came out today: Inoculation Prompting: Eliciting traits from LLMs during training can suppress them at test-time (Tan et al.) Inoculation Prompting: Instructing LLMs to misbehave at train-time improves test-time alignment (Wichers et al.) These papers both study the following idea[1]: preventing a model from …

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“Hospitalization: A Review” by Logan Riggs 18:52

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I woke up Friday morning w/ a very sore left shoulder. I tried stretching it, but my left chest hurt too. Isn't pain on one side a sign of a heart attack? Chest pain, arm/shoulder pain, and my breathing is pretty shallow now that I think about it, but I don't think I'm having a heart attack because that'd be terribly inconvenient. But it'd also be …

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#221 - 1% Good Club Gold Coast Book Launch - Cooper Chapman live with Sophia Chapman 48:21

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On today's episode I am interviewed by my little sister Sophia Chapman live at my Gold Coast book launch! Send me a DM on Instagram saying "I wanna join the club" to join our FREE mindfulness and gratitude accountability community :) Buy a copy of The 1% Good Club Book!! The Good Human Factory Amazon Booktopia Cooper's Links Instagram TikTok The Go…

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“What, if not agency?” by abramdemski 23:57

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Sahil has been up to things. Unfortunately, I've seen people put effort into trying to understand and still bounce off. I recently talked to someone who tried to understand Sahil's project(s) several times and still failed. They asked me for my take, and they thought my explanation was far easier to understand (even if they still disagreed with it …

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“The Origami Men” by Tomás B. 28:56

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Of course, you must understand, I couldn't be bothered to act. I know weepers still pretend to try, but I wasn't a weeper, at least not then. It isn't even dangerous, the teeth only sharp to its target. But it would not have been right, you know? That's the way things are now. You ignore the screams. You put on a podcast: two guys talking, two guys…

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1% Pod - Sporting Moments I’ll Never Forget 11:37

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“Humanity Learned Almost Nothing From COVID-19” by niplav 8:45

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“Consider donating to Alex Bores, author of the RAISE Act” by Eric Neyman 50:28

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“Meditation is dangerous” by Algon 7:26

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#222 Rick Brennan — From World Champion Bodybuilder to Wrongful Accusation and Redemption 1:15:19

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“That Mad Olympiad” by Tomás B. 26:41

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“The ‘Length’ of ‘Horizons’” by Adam Scholl 14:15

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“Don’t Mock Yourself” by Algon 4:10

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“If Anyone Builds It Everyone Dies, a semi-outsider review” by dvd 26:01

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1% Pod - Discovering places that leave you in awe. 13:54

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“The Most Common Bad Argument In These Parts” by J Bostock 8:11

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“Towards a Typology of Strange LLM Chains-of-Thought” by 1a3orn 17:34

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“I take antidepressants. You’re welcome” by Elizabeth 6:09

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“Inoculation prompting: Instructing models to misbehave at train-time can improve run-time behavior” by Sam Marks 4:06

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“Hospitalization: A Review” by Logan Riggs 18:52

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#221 - 1% Good Club Gold Coast Book Launch - Cooper Chapman live with Sophia Chapman 48:21

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“What, if not agency?” by abramdemski 23:57

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“The Origami Men” by Tomás B. 28:56

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1% Pod - Sporting Moments I’ll Never Forget 11:37

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“A non-review of ‘If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies’” by boazbarak 6:37

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“Notes on fatalities from AI takeover” by ryan_greenblatt 15:46

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“Nice-ish, smooth takeoff (with imperfect safeguards) probably kills most ‘classic humans’ in a few decades.” by Raemon 21:59

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“Omelas Is Perfectly Misread” by Tobias H 8:56

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#220 Belle Brockhoff – Three-Time Olympian, Setbacks, and Mental Strength 1:06:56

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“Ethical Design Patterns” by AnnaSalamon 38:39

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1% Pod - TODAY I BECAME A PUBLISHED AUTHOR!!! 15:41

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“You’re probably overestimating how well you understand Dunning-Kruger” by abstractapplic 7:40

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“Reasons to sell frontier lab equity to donate now rather than later” by Daniel_Eth, Ethan Perez 23:53

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The Future Of Test Automation 51:14

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“CFAR update, and New CFAR workshops” by AnnaSalamon 15:31