"Upstream" with Erik Torenberg
You’ll hear consequential ideas here first, and in the mainstream months later. Upstream is a curated nexus feed from the Turpentine podcast network, bringing you expert-level conversations hosted by some of the most compelling thinkers in the world including Noah Smith, Samo Burja, Byrne Hobart, Erik Torenberg, and Nathan Labenz. Guests include Marc Andreessen, Balaji Srinivasan, Dario Amodei, Brian Armstrong, David Sacks, Sam Harris, Katherine Boyle, Curtis Yarvin, and many more unmissable con...
Episodes (143)
E141: The Bronze Age Collapse and History's Selective Memory
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E140: Why Industrial Revolutions Stall
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E139: America’s Tech Strategy w/ Qasar Younis, Sen. Jack Reed, and Josh Wolfe
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E138: Palantir CEO Alex Karp & Rep. Ritchie Torres on Innovation & The West | Hi...
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E137: AI Safety vs Speed: Helen Toner Discusses OpenAI Board Experience, Regulat...
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E136: Trump V2: Tariffs, American Dynamism, Higher Ed | Byrne Hobart
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E135: The Problem With Reserve Currencies and Switching to Crypto w/ Lyn Alden [...
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E134: Atheism’s Decline, Consciousness, and The New Right w/ Ross Douthat
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E133: China’s Energy Problem w/ Samo Burja
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E132: AI Managers, US vs China Analysis, and AI Art w/ Byrne Hobart
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E131: Abundance Agenda, The New Right, and 2008 Retrospective w/ Noah Smith
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E130: Elon Musk’s Network Effects and Checking in on Chinese AI w/ Byrne Hobart
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E129: Dark Triad, Romantic Partner Selection, and Dating Advice w/ Rob Henderson
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E128: US-Europe Relations, How Japan Can Strengthen The Yen, and Predicting AI’s...
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E127: The Tech Right and How The Left Can Fix Itself w/ Jon Askonas
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E126: Data Center Economics and AI Energy Requirements w/ Patrick McKenzie and A...
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E125: Palantir’s Politics, Elon’s Approach to DOGE, and AI’s Effects on Writing...
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E124: How to Have A Philosophical Marriage w/ Agnes Callard and Arnold Brooks
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E123: Trump & The Game of Populism w/ Samo Burja
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E122: Victor Davis Hanson on What Trump Thinks of Zelensky and Predicting Geopol...
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E121: Kevin Kelly on What Makes Us Human in an AI World
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E120: Why Europe Matters for America’s Future w/ Samo Burja
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E119: Free Trade, AI Integration, and Shopify Q4 Results w/ Shopify President Ha...
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E118: Ending Woke, Why Elon Wins, and A Return to Innovation w/ Marc Andreessen...
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E117: The Future of Martian & Interplanetary Societies w/ Samo Burja
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E116: Stuck Academia, US vs China, and Why Startups Work
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E115: New Tariff Implications, DeepSeek and Open Source Analysis, and Meta’s Big...
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E114: Tyler Cowen on Legacy, Twitter + Harvard, and Fertility Decline [Upstream...
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E113: Reflections on Yarvin, Why the Right is Stuck, and Startups as Dictatorshi...
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E112: Election Update, Tech’s Political Shift, and America’s Stuck GDP | This Wo...
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E111: Samo Burja & Auren Hoffman on the Decline of Fertility Rates and Instituti...
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E110: Crypto Debanking: What Really Happened | Patrick McKenzie
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E109: Dating & Relationships Deep Dive w/ Noah Smith and Katherine Dee (Default...
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E108: Should AI have Rights? With Nathan Labenz and Yeshua God, Robopsychologist
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E107: How Desalination Could Create New Superpowers | Samo Burja
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E106: The Man Who Wrote the Book on NVIDIA
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E104: AI Meets Geopolitics w/ Samo Burja and Nathan Labenz
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E103: Byrne Hobart on What The First AI Agents Will Do + China, Google Analysis
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E102: America’s Culture of Winning w/ Alex Karp and Jacob Helberg
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E101: Wokeism & Class w/ David Sacks, Trump’s AI Czar [Upstream Archive]
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E100: Marc Andreessen: How 2016 Broke My Mental Model of the World
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E99: This Era’s Inflection Points with Byrne Hobart | DOGE, Elon, OpenAI
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E98: Solving America’s Problems with Joe Lonsdale
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E97: Combining Biology and AI w/ Michael Levin and Dr. Leo Pio Lopez
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E96: Rudyard Lynch and Samo Burja Talk The Left’s Future and Problems with Moder...
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E95: Trump’s New Under Secretary of Defense for Research & Engineering on Growin...
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E94: Best of: AGI | Dario Amodei / Balaji Srinivasan / Marc Andreessen / Samo Bu...
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E93: How Trump and Elon Could Rebuild the US Government
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E92: Curtis Yarvin’s Pre-Election Advice to Elon Musk
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E91: Why We Do Philosophy w/ Agnes Callard
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