Ozy Brennan
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Ozy Brennan is a recurring person in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 4 times across 4 issues between July 24, 2024 and October 13, 2025. The archive places it in contexts such as “Ozy Brennan’s excellent review of same”; “Ozy Brennan has a self-help post, The Life Goals Of Dead People”; “I appreciated Ozy Brennan’s review of Saddam Hussein’s erotic novel”. It most often appears alongside Africa, Alex Tabarrok, Andrew Tate.
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- Category: People
- Mention count: 4
- Issue count: 4
- First seen: July 24, 2024
- Last seen: October 13, 2025
Appears In
- Links for July 2024
- Matt Yglesias Considered As The Nietzschean Superman
- Links For April 2025
- ACX Grants Results 2025
Related Pages
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- Africa (2 shared issues)
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- Alex Tabarrok (2 shared issues)
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- Andrew Tate (2 shared issues)
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- Biden (2 shared issues)
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- Bill Gates (2 shared issues)
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- China (2 shared issues)
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- Donald Trump (2 shared issues)
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- Elon Musk (2 shared issues)
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- FDA (2 shared issues)
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- Harvard (2 shared issues)
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- India (2 shared issues)
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- Milei (2 shared issues)
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Source Context
Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.
39: WeAreNotSaved reviews Abigail Shrier’s Bad Therapy, which reminded me to also check out Ozy Brennan’s excellent review of same. This is interesting enough that I might write a post on it. I think both ignoring/repressing trauma and exaggerating/spotlighting trauma are potentially dangerous, and that someone needs to invent the art of successfully navigating the space between them (I don’t think mainstream psychiatry has this art, though it does have pieces of it).
III. Ozy Brennan
Ozy Brennan has a self-help post, The Life Goals Of Dead People. It’s framed as mental health advice. Maybe you’re some sort of guilty/anxious doormat type person. Your goals are things like:
Inline links: The Life Goals Of Dead People
16: Trump Tower is a BDSM erotic novel published in 2011. It was originally credited to Donald Trump as author (with Jeffrey Robinson as ghostwriter), but at the last moment Trump changed his mind, and Robinson was listed as the author. I appreciated Ozy Brennan's review of Saddam Hussein’s erotic novel, and nominate them to cover this one too. 17: Wikipedia on the beginning of the Horslips, one of Ireland’s most famous rock bands: Barry Devlin, Eamon Carr and Charles O'Connor met when they worked at Arks Advertising Agency in Dublin. They were cajoled into pretending to be a band for a Harp Lager commercial but needed a keyboard player. Devlin said he knew a Jim Lockhart who would fit the bill. The four enjoyed the act so much that they decided to try being proper rock performers. 18: I complained that Elon Musk’s idea of “truth-seeking AI” was bad for alignment, and I still think this is true in the very long run. But I can’t deny it’s an inspired / providential choice for the current moment, already paying dividends (X): 19: Lyman Stone Continues Being Dumb, The Fallacious Inferences Of Lyman Stone, and Against Lyman Stone are some of this month’s top anti-Lyman-Stone content. 20: New polling on the Middle Ages: 21: More new-ish AI policy substacks potentially worth your time: You may remember Helen Toner from the OpenAI board drama, but she’s also an experienced and thoughtful scholar on AI policy and now has a Substack, Rising Tide. I especially appreciated Nonproliferation Is The Wrong Approach To AI Misuse.
Inline links: Trump Tower, Ozy Brennan's review of Saddam Hussein’s erotic novel, the beginning of the Horslips, bad for alignment, already paying dividends (X), https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!nPJW!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fad66b2c0-0180-4fc1-afc1-25de0f0ce40f_533x518.png, Lyman Stone Continues Being Dumb, The Fallacious Inferences Of Lyman Stone, Against Lyman Stone, New polling on the Middle Ages, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!9b_4!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe3163eca-eaf4-492a-ac68-eadefa169be2_632x419.png, Rising Tide, Nonproliferation Is The Wrong Approach To AI Misuse
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