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Taylor Lorenz — Podcast Appearances & AI Summaries
Taylor Lorenz has appeared on 9 podcast episodes in our AI-summarized catalog, including Taylor Lorenz’s Power User. Every appearance below has a free 5-minute AI summary.
What Taylor said
“It's like asking if a calculator is conscious. You can program the outputs however you want to see as conscious as you want.”
— Taylor Lorenz (31:30)
“It feels to me like psychological warfare against women to make us really frightened and scared and more in favor of reactionary politics that are ultimately against our best interests.”
— Taylor Lorenz
“It's very difficult to convince a conned person that they've been conned because you've already bought in...”
— Taylor Lorenz (paraphrasing a famous quote)
Episode appearances
9 In the past few years, Silicon Valley AI companies have begun paying teams of philosophers and scientists to answer one question: Can AI ever become conscious? Anthropic is publishing welfare…
Why Palantir Is Selling Tennis Skirts In 1983, a group of exhausted Apple engineers received gray hoodies emblazoned with a misspelled "Macintosh" on the front and the slogan "90 hours a week and…
Mark Zuckerberg’s latest 6,500-word manifesto, "The Future is for Everyone," is a political document, a product pitch, and a competitive broadside all wrapped into one. New York Times reporter…
The Truth Behind Anthropic's Book-Scanning Controversy Viral videos have been circulating online showing massive warehouses filled with books, with what looks like a guillotine slicing off spines…
"Data outlives legal regimes." That line from Dr. Matthew Guariglia, a senior policy analyst at the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), captures the core anxiety of his conversation with Taylor…
In a recent episode of Taylor Lorenz’s Power User, leftist Twitch streamer Hasan Piker argued that the United States is repeating the same censorship patterns he witnessed growing up in…
Why Timothée Chalamet Is Shilling Kalshi: Inside The Plan To Monetize Everything Taylor Lorenz’s Power User --- There is literally a market on what color Donald Trump’s tie will be tomorrow during…
In March, CNN published an investigation into what it called a "global online rape academy" that had allegedly attracted 62 million men. The story spread across TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube with…
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