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 conversations.
The Bronze Age Collapse and History's Selective Memory
Why Industrial Revolutions Stall
America’s Tech Strategy w/ Qasar Younis, Sen. Jack Reed, and Josh Wolfe
Palantir CEO Alex Karp & Rep. Ritchie Torres on Innovation & The West | Hill and Valley Forum 2024
Helen Toner OpenAI Reflections, Adaptation Buffers, and AI in Warfare
Trump V2: Tariffs, American Dynamism, Higher Ed | Byrne Hobart
The Problem With Reserve Currencies and Switching to Crypto w/ Lyn Alden
Ross Douthat (NYT) on AI, Atheism’s Decline, and The New Right
China’s Energy Problem w/ Samo Burja
AI Managers, US vs China Analysis, and AI Art w/ Byrne Hobart
Abundance Agenda, The New Right, and 2008 Retrospective w/ Noah Smith
Elon Musk’s Network Effects and Checking in on Chinese AI w/ Byrne Hobart
Dark Triad, Romantic Partner Selection, and Dating Advice w/ Rob Henderson
US-Europe Relations, Japan's Yen Strategy, and AI’s Growth Effects w/ Noah Smith
The Tech Right and How The Left Can Fix Itself w/ Jon Askonas
Palantir’s Politics, Elon’s Approach to DOGE, and AI’s Effects on Writing w/ Byrne Hobart
How to Have A Philosophical Marriage w/ Agnes Callard and Arnold Brooks
Trump & The Game of Populism w/ Samo Burja
Victor Davis Hanson on What Trump Thinks of Zelensky and Predicting Geopolitics
Kevin Kelly on What Makes Us Human in an AI World
Why Europe Matters for America’s Future w/ Samo Burja
Shopify President Harley Finkelstein on Celebrating Entrepreneurship & AI-Integrated Business
Ending Woke, Why Elon Wins, and A Return to Innovation w/ Marc Andreessen
The Future of Martian & Interplanetary Societies w/ Samo Burja
Stuck Academia, US vs China, and Why Startups Work w/ Steve Hsu
New Tariff Implications, DeepSeek and Open Source Analysis, and Meta’s Big Bets w/ Byrne Hobart
Tyler Cowen on Legacy, Twitter + Harvard, and Fertility Decline
Reflections on Yarvin, Why the Right is Stuck, and Startups as Dictatorships w/ Samo Burja
Election Update, Tech’s Political Shift, and America’s Stuck GDP | This Won’t Last
Samo Burja & Auren Hoffman on the Decline of Fertility Rates and Institutional Trust