"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)
E90: Elites, Institutions, and Trump with Richard Hanania
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E89: Economics as a Science w/ Noah Smith
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E88: The Fertility Apocalypse w/ Samo Burja
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E87: Embodied Minds and Cognitive Agents with Dr. Michael Levin
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E86: Techno-capitalism with Bryan Johnson
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E85: Analyzing Everything with Byrne Hobart and Patrick McKenzie
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E84: Let’s Fix Social Media with Jonathan Haidt
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E83: How Patty McCord Built Netflix’s Culture
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E82: America’s Future with Palmer Luckey
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E81: Status, Sacred, and Neglected Truths with Robin Hanson
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E80: Financial Plumbing with Patrick McKenzie and Erik Torenberg
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E79: How Civilizations Cycle & Collapse | Samo Burja and Rudyard Lynch
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E78: Fertility, Healthy Humans, and Ending Genetic Disease w/ Noor Siddiqui, CEO...
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E77: Academic Fraud & the Spiritual Quest for Truth | Live Players w/ Samo Burj...
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E76: "The CEO is Always Responsible” | This Won’t Last w/ Logan Bartlett, Zach W...
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E75: The Future of AI-Enabled Companies with Omar Shams, CEO of Mutable AI
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E74: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei Talks Scaling Laws, AI Arms Races, and Radical A...
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E73: Brian Armstrong on Crypto in 2024, Politics, and Economic Freedom
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E72: Eoghan McCabe on San Francisco, Tech Leadership, and Optimistic Media
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E71: Marc Andreessen on Higher Education and Tech Culture
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E70: Katherine Boyle on Religion, Journalism, and Polarization
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E69: Balaji Srinivasan on the Rise of the Tech Counter Elites
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E68: Tyler Cowen on Talent, the Importance of Stamina, and Predicting Success
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E67: A Deep Dive on René Girard with David Gornoski
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E66: Noah Smith on 2024 Election Strategy, American Civil Service, and Cash Bene...
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E65: Bret Weinstein on Evolutionary Biology, Markets, Moral Progress, and More
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E64: Richard Hanania on Trump's Genius, Antisemitism, and Election Predictions
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E63: Balaji Srinivasan and Glen Weyl on Decentralized Governance, Politics, and...
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E62: Mike Solana on Thinking Freely and What Tech Means for Culture
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E61: Noah Smith on Wokeness, Right Wing Muckrakers, and Class vs Identity
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E60: AI in the Techno-Economic War with China with Vinod Khosla, Todd Young, and...
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E59: Bryan Caplan on Housing Regulation, Fertility, and Crime
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E58: Jonathan Haidt on Finally Fixing Social Media and Picking All the Cherries
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E57: Noah Smith Analyzes Economies: USA, China, Japan, Russia, India, Korea, & M...
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E56: Brian Chau on Spreading Informed AI Optimism
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E55: Why China's Universities Will Become Harvard
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E54: Naval Ravikant and Balaji Srinivasan on Why History Points to Crypto
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E53: Nathan Labenz and Noah Smith on What AI Actually Means for the Economy
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E52: David Friedman on Anarcho-Capitalism, Utilitarianism, and Inequality
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E51: How We Build More Housing with Brad Hargreaves & Noah Smith
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E50: Alex Blania on Worldcoin, AGI, and Future Predictions
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E49: The Legacy of Effective Altruism with Igor Kurganov
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E48: Liron Shapira on the Case for Pausing AI
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E47: Rob Henderson on Life in Foster Care, Academia, and Beyond
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E46: Lyn Alden on How Money Works
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E45: Bayeslord and Nadia Asparouhova on Effective Accelerationism
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E44: Tyler Cowen on Harvard, the GOAT Economist, and Ending Stagnation
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E43: Richard Hanania on Wokeness, Israel-Palestine, and the Mythos of the Modern...
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E42: Erik Torenberg on the Evolution of Media
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E41: Steve Hsu on the Future of Everything
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