Panic World

Great, informative but also hilarious work! I feel a little less crazy, a bit more aware and better able to understand people around me with each episode. Didn’t expect quite so many gooning references and I’ll never be the same! Thank you, I think!

I’m a millennial who missed the era of the fun internet and wikiholes so this pod just hits the spot in terms of great research, niche guests and pop culture. Viva La Panic World.

Began listening after host appeared on Chapo in a solid ep of that pod - his own just doesn’t land for me. Snarky and annoying and ultimately uninformative guests and decidedly shallow and one sided treatments of interesting topics

The latest episode about AI exhibits a fundamental misunderstanding of the technology behind the modern AI boom. Any writer who would even espouse the idea that chatGPT functions similarly to a search engine can be immediately discredited as not understanding the underlying technology behind LLMs and other generative models. Transformers are glorified autocomplete. There is no semblance of a path towards a “singularity” or “AGI” in the literature and to suggest otherwise is at best foolish and at worst deception. I question any podcast that would post such a poorly researched episode.