"Upstream" with Erik Torenberg
A podcast by Erik Torenberg

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134 Episodes
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E111: Samo Burja & Auren Hoffman on the Decline of Fertility Rates and Institutional Trust
Published: 1/23/2025 -
E110: Crypto Debanking: What Really Happened | Patrick McKenzie
Published: 1/18/2025 -
E109: Dating & Relationships Deep Dive w/ Noah Smith and Katherine Dee (Default Friend)
Published: 1/16/2025 -
E108: Should AI have Rights? With Nathan Labenz and Yeshua God, Robopsychologist
Published: 1/11/2025 -
E107: How Desalination Could Create New Superpowers | Samo Burja
Published: 1/9/2025 -
E106: The Man Who Wrote the Book on NVIDIA
Published: 1/3/2025 -
E105: Delian Asparouhov & Nadia Asparouhova: Making Relationships Work
Published: 12/28/2024 -
E104: AI Meets Geopolitics w/ Samo Burja and Nathan Labenz
Published: 12/19/2024 -
E103: Byrne Hobart on What The First AI Agents Will Do + China, Google Analysis
Published: 12/15/2024 -
E102: America’s Culture of Winning w/ Alex Karp and Jacob Helberg
Published: 12/12/2024 -
E101: Wokeism & Class w/ David Sacks, Trump’s AI Czar [Upstream Archive]
Published: 12/7/2024 -
E100: Marc Andreessen: How 2016 Broke My Mental Model of the World
Published: 12/3/2024 -
E99: This Era’s Inflection Points with Byrne Hobart | DOGE, Elon, OpenAI
Published: 11/30/2024 -
E98: Solving America’s Problems with Joe Lonsdale
Published: 11/28/2024 -
E97: Combining Biology and AI w/ Michael Levin and Dr. Leo Pio Lopez
Published: 11/23/2024 -
E96: Rudyard Lynch and Samo Burja Talk The Left’s Future and Problems with Modernity
Published: 11/21/2024 -
E95: Trump’s New Under Secretary of Defense for Research & Engineering on Growing Uber | Emil Michael on Growing Uber | Emil Michael
Published: 11/16/2024 -
E94: Best of: AGI | Dario Amodei / Balaji Srinivasan / Marc Andreessen / Samo Burja / Michael Levin
Published: 11/14/2024 -
E93: How Trump and Elon Could Rebuild the US Government
Published: 11/9/2024 -
E92: Curtis Yarvin’s Pre-Election Advice to Elon Musk
Published: 11/7/2024
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 conversations. Upstream is part of the Turpentine podcast network. To learn more: turpentine.co