Power User with Taylor Lorenz
Hosted by Taylor Lorenz · Taylor Lorenz
4.2from 1,687 ratings
- 222
- Episodes
- 218
- Transcribed
- 1,687
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2024
- First episode
- 6M
- YouTube views
About Power User with Taylor Lorenz
Taylor Lorenz explores how technology and the internet are upending our lives and the world around us. Each week, she explores everything from online fame to emerging platforms, viral phenomena, the creator economy, and much more. Tune in every Wednesday for regular episodes and every Friday for "Free Speech Friday," her series on tech policy and the fight for civil liberties online.
- Publisher
- Taylor Lorenz
- Category
- technology
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 28 Feb 2024
- Latest episode
- 23 Sept 2026
Latest episodes
218 of 222 episodes have a transcript.
23 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
The Disturbing Cult Taking Over Silicon Valley (Inside Davos For The Tech Elite)
18 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Countries Are Hiding Censorship in 'Cybercrime' Laws
16 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Are We All Going to Die!?!?! The Dark Money Behind AI Doomer Panic
Inside a recent episode
The Disturbing Cult Taking Over Silicon Valley (Inside Davos For The Tech Elite)
Published 23 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] He wrote this book called Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality that's a Harry Potter fanfic that's tens of thousands of words long and is in fact longer than Infinite Jest and Gravity's Rainbow put together. And And Yudkowsky's kind of scenario, the canonical idea of what might misaligned AI do that doesn't properly understand the importance of human life, is the paperclip maximizer, which is to say you're like a paperclip firm. You tell AI, make the most amount of paperclips possible, and then it kills all humans to extract the iron from our blood to make paperclips. So I think that the horseshoe here between a Beth Jezos and one of the AI Doomer types like Yud is that they both kind of believe that this technology is heading towards this position where it will have this world bestriding power to turn us all into paper clips. […]
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- YouTube views
- 6,156,497
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.1 / 5
- 378 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.2 / 5
- 1,309 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 81 / 100
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- Quality
- 85
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 93
- Engagement
- 98
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