"Upstream" with Erik Torenberg
By Erik Torenberg
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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.
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E138: Palantir CEO Alex Karp & Rep. Ritchie Torres on Innovation & The West | Hill and Valley Forum 2024
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Apr 26, 2025 |
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E137: AI Safety vs Speed: Helen Toner Discusses OpenAI Board Experience, Regulatory Approaches, and Military AI [The Cognitive Revolution]
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Apr 24, 2025 |
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E136: Trump V2: Tariffs, American Dynamism, Higher Ed | Byrne Hobart
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Apr 20, 2025 |
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E135: The Problem With Reserve Currencies and Switching to Crypto w/ Lyn Alden [From the Archives]
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Apr 17, 2025 |
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E134: Atheism’s Decline, Consciousness, and The New Right w/ Ross Douthat
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Apr 13, 2025 |
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E133: China’s Energy Problem w/ Samo Burja
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Apr 11, 2025 |
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E132: AI Managers, US vs China Analysis, and AI Art w/ Byrne Hobart
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Apr 05, 2025 |
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E131: Abundance Agenda, The New Right, and 2008 Retrospective w/ Noah Smith
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Apr 03, 2025 |
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E130: Elon Musk’s Network Effects and Checking in on Chinese AI w/ Byrne Hobart
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Mar 29, 2025 |
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E129: Dark Triad, Romantic Partner Selection, and Dating Advice w/ Rob Henderson
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Mar 27, 2025 |
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E128: US-Europe Relations, How Japan Can Strengthen The Yen, and Predicting AI’s Growth Effects w/ Noah Smith
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Mar 23, 2025 |
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E127: The Tech Right and How The Left Can Fix Itself w/ Jon Askonas
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Mar 20, 2025 |
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E126: Data Center Economics and AI Energy Requirements w/ Patrick McKenzie and Azeem Azhar
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Mar 15, 2025 |
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E125: Palantir’s Politics, Elon’s Approach to DOGE, and AI’s Effects on Writing w/ Byrne Hobart
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Mar 13, 2025 |
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E124: How to Have A Philosophical Marriage w/ Agnes Callard and Arnold Brooks
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Mar 09, 2025 |
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E123: Trump & The Game of Populism w/ Samo Burja
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Mar 06, 2025 |
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E122: Victor Davis Hanson on What Trump Thinks of Zelensky and Predicting Geopolitics
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Mar 01, 2025 |
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E121: Kevin Kelly on What Makes Us Human in an AI World
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Feb 27, 2025 |
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E120: Why Europe Matters for America’s Future w/ Samo Burja
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Feb 23, 2025 |
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E119: Free Trade, AI Integration, and Shopify Q4 Results w/ Shopify President Harley Finkelstein
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Feb 20, 2025 |
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E118: Ending Woke, Why Elon Wins, and A Return to Innovation w/ Marc Andreessen [Moment of Zen repost]
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Feb 17, 2025 |
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E117: The Future of Martian & Interplanetary Societies w/ Samo Burja
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Feb 14, 2025 |
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E116: Stuck Academia, US vs China, and Why Startups Work
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Feb 08, 2025 |
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E115: New Tariff Implications, DeepSeek and Open Source Analysis, and Meta’s Big Bets w/ Byrne Hobart
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Feb 06, 2025 |
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E114: Tyler Cowen on Legacy, Twitter + Harvard, and Fertility Decline [Upstream Archive]
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Feb 02, 2025 |
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E113: Reflections on Yarvin, Why the Right is Stuck, and Startups as Dictatorships w/ Samo Burja
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Jan 31, 2025 |
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E112: Election Update, Tech’s Political Shift, and America’s Stuck GDP | This Won’t Last
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Jan 25, 2025 |
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E111: Samo Burja & Auren Hoffman on the Decline of Fertility Rates and Institutional Trust
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Jan 23, 2025 |
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E110: Crypto Debanking: What Really Happened | Patrick McKenzie
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Jan 18, 2025 |
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E109: Dating & Relationships Deep Dive w/ Noah Smith and Katherine Dee (Default Friend)
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Jan 16, 2025 |
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E108: Should AI have Rights? With Nathan Labenz and Yeshua God, Robopsychologist
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Jan 11, 2025 |
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E107: How Desalination Could Create New Superpowers | Samo Burja
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Jan 09, 2025 |
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E106: The Man Who Wrote the Book on NVIDIA
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Jan 03, 2025 |
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E105: Delian Asparouhov & Nadia Asparouhova: Making Relationships Work
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Dec 28, 2024 |
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E104: AI Meets Geopolitics w/ Samo Burja and Nathan Labenz
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Dec 19, 2024 |
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E103: Byrne Hobart on What The First AI Agents Will Do + China, Google Analysis
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Dec 15, 2024 |
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E102: America’s Culture of Winning w/ Alex Karp and Jacob Helberg
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Dec 12, 2024 |
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E101: Wokeism & Class w/ David Sacks, Trump’s AI Czar [Upstream Archive]
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Dec 07, 2024 |
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E100: Marc Andreessen: How 2016 Broke My Mental Model of the World
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Dec 03, 2024 |
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E99: This Era’s Inflection Points with Byrne Hobart | DOGE, Elon, OpenAI
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Nov 30, 2024 |
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E98: Solving America’s Problems with Joe Lonsdale
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Nov 28, 2024 |
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E97: Combining Biology and AI w/ Michael Levin and Dr. Leo Pio Lopez
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Nov 23, 2024 |
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E96: Rudyard Lynch and Samo Burja Talk The Left’s Future and Problems with Modernity
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Nov 21, 2024 |
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E95: Trump’s New Under Secretary of Defense for Research & Engineering on Growing Uber | Emil Michael on Growing Uber | Emil Michael
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Nov 16, 2024 |
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E94: Best of: AGI | Dario Amodei / Balaji Srinivasan / Marc Andreessen / Samo Burja / Michael Levin
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Nov 14, 2024 |
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E93: How Trump and Elon Could Rebuild the US Government
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Nov 09, 2024 |
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E92: Curtis Yarvin’s Pre-Election Advice to Elon Musk
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Nov 07, 2024 |
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E91: Why We Do Philosophy w/ Agnes Callard
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Nov 02, 2024 |
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E90: Elites, Institutions, and Trump with Richard Hanania
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Oct 31, 2024 |
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E89: Economics as a Science w/ Noah Smith
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Oct 26, 2024 |
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E88: The Fertility Apocalypse w/ Samo Burja
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Oct 24, 2024 |
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E87: Embodied Minds and Cognitive Agents with Dr. Michael Levin
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Oct 19, 2024 |
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E86: Techno-capitalism with Bryan Johnson
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Oct 17, 2024 |
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E85: Analyzing Everything with Byrne Hobart and Patrick McKenzie
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Oct 12, 2024 |
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E84: Let’s Fix Social Media with Jonathan Haidt
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Oct 10, 2024 |
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E83: How Patty McCord Built Netflix’s Culture
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Oct 05, 2024 |
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E82: America’s Future with Palmer Luckey
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Oct 03, 2024 |
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E81: Status, Sacred, and Neglected Truths with Robin Hanson
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Sep 28, 2024 |
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E80: Financial Plumbing with Patrick McKenzie and Erik Torenberg
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Sep 26, 2024 |
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E79: How Civilizations Cycle & Collapse | Samo Burja and Rudyard Lynch
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Sep 21, 2024 |
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E78: Fertility, Healthy Humans, and Ending Genetic Disease w/ Noor Siddiqui, CEO of Orchid
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Sep 19, 2024 |
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E77: Academic Fraud & the Spiritual Quest for Truth | Live Players w/ Samo Burja and Ben Landau-Taylor
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Sep 14, 2024 |
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E76: "The CEO is Always Responsible” | This Won’t Last w/ Logan Bartlett, Zach Weinberg, Kevin Ryan, and Keith Rabois
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Sep 12, 2024 |
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E75: The Future of AI-Enabled Companies with Omar Shams, CEO of Mutable AI
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Sep 07, 2024 |
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E74: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei Talks Scaling Laws, AI Arms Races, and Radical Abundance
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Aug 31, 2024 |
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E73: Brian Armstrong on Crypto in 2024, Politics, and Economic Freedom
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Aug 23, 2024 |
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E72: Eoghan McCabe on San Francisco, Tech Leadership, and Optimistic Media
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Aug 16, 2024 |
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E71: Marc Andreessen on Higher Education and Tech Culture
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Aug 09, 2024 |
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E70: Katherine Boyle on Religion, Journalism, and Polarization
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Aug 02, 2024 |
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E69: Balaji Srinivasan on the Rise of the Tech Counter Elites
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Jul 26, 2024 |
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E68: Tyler Cowen on Talent, the Importance of Stamina, and Predicting Success
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Jul 19, 2024 |
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E67: A Deep Dive on René Girard with David Gornoski
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Jul 12, 2024 |
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E66: Noah Smith on 2024 Election Strategy, American Civil Service, and Cash Benefits
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Jul 06, 2024 |
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E65: Bret Weinstein on Evolutionary Biology, Markets, Moral Progress, and More
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Jun 28, 2024 |
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E64: Richard Hanania on Trump's Genius, Antisemitism, and Election Predictions
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Jun 22, 2024 |
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E63: Balaji Srinivasan and Glen Weyl on Decentralized Governance, Politics, and History
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Jun 14, 2024 |
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E62: Mike Solana on Thinking Freely and What Tech Means for Culture
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Jun 07, 2024 |
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E61: Noah Smith on Wokeness, Right Wing Muckrakers, and Class vs Identity
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May 31, 2024 |
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E60: AI in the Techno-Economic War with China with Vinod Khosla, Todd Young, and Jacob Helberg
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May 24, 2024 |
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E59: Bryan Caplan on Housing Regulation, Fertility, and Crime
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May 17, 2024 |
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E58: Jonathan Haidt on Finally Fixing Social Media and Picking All the Cherries
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May 11, 2024 |
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E57: Noah Smith Analyzes Economies: USA, China, Japan, Russia, India, Korea, & More
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May 03, 2024 |
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E56: Brian Chau on Spreading Informed AI Optimism
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Apr 26, 2024 |
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E55: Why China's Universities Will Become Harvard
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Apr 19, 2024 |
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E54: Naval Ravikant and Balaji Srinivasan on Why History Points to Crypto
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Apr 12, 2024 |
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E53: Nathan Labenz and Noah Smith on What AI Actually Means for the Economy
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Apr 05, 2024 |
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E52: David Friedman on Anarcho-Capitalism, Utilitarianism, and Inequality
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Mar 29, 2024 |
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E51: How We Build More Housing with Brad Hargreaves & Noah Smith
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Mar 22, 2024 |
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E50: Alex Blania on Worldcoin, AGI, and Future Predictions
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Mar 15, 2024 |
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E49: The Legacy of Effective Altruism with Igor Kurganov
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Mar 08, 2024 |
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E48: Liron Shapira on the Case for Pausing AI
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Mar 02, 2024 |
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E47: Rob Henderson on Life in Foster Care, Academia, and Beyond
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Feb 23, 2024 |
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E46: Lyn Alden on How Money Works
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Feb 16, 2024 |
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E45: Bayeslord and Nadia Asparouhova on Effective Accelerationism
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Feb 09, 2024 |
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E44: Tyler Cowen on Harvard, the GOAT Economist, and Ending Stagnation
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Feb 02, 2024 |
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E43: Richard Hanania on Wokeness, Israel-Palestine, and the Mythos of the Modern Right
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Jan 26, 2024 |
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E42: Erik Torenberg on the Evolution of Media
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Jan 19, 2024 |
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E41: Steve Hsu on the Future of Everything
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Jan 12, 2024 |
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E40: Develop Your Personal Investing Strategy with Itay Vinik
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Jan 05, 2024 |
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E39: Balaji Srinivasan and Nathan Labenz on AI's Future, Human-AI Symbiosis, and AI Control
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Dec 29, 2023 |
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E38: Holiday Special: Request for Startups
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Dec 22, 2023 |
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E37: Noor Siddiqui on embryo screening, the fertility crisis, and parenting
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Dec 15, 2023 |
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E36: Beff Jezos on doxxing, e/acc, and why crypto will save AI
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Dec 08, 2023 |
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E35: Samo Burja on Sam Altman, Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, and George Soros
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Dec 01, 2023 |
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E34: Byrne Hobart on Sam Altman, Meta vs Google, and Effective Altruism
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Nov 24, 2023 |
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E33: The Untold History of Nuclear Energy with Packy McCormick and Julia DeWahl
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Nov 17, 2023 |
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E32: Balaji on SBF and the Israel-Hamas War
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Nov 10, 2023 |
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E31: Sam Lessin on Why We’re Heading into a New Era of Venture
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Nov 03, 2023 |
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E30: Aaron Ginn on the Moral Idea Maze, the GPU Revolution, and US-China Relations
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Oct 27, 2023 |
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E29: Sense-Making, a Top 1% Information Diet, and Generation Warfare with Michael Guimarin
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Oct 20, 2023 |
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E28: Richard Hanania Returns | Trump, the Sexual Revolution, and Immigration
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Oct 06, 2023 |
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E27: Robin Hanson on Elites, Experts, and the Truths We Resist
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Sep 29, 2023 |
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E26: Ben Horowitz on AI, the Future of Venture Capital, and Wartime VCs
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Sep 22, 2023 |
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E25: Jon Askonas on 2nd Order Effects of AI, the Media Ecology of Reality, and Conservatism
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Sep 15, 2023 |
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E24: Balaji Srinivasan on Social Tribalism, Cloud Cartography, Internet Values
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Sep 08, 2023 |
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E23: Emad Mostaque and Sam Lessin Debate Whether AI is a Good Investment for VC
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Sep 01, 2023 |
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E22: Vivek Ramaswamy on his Presidential Run, Intellectually Oppressive Culture, Otherism
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Aug 25, 2023 |
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E21: Sam Hammond on AI, e/acc, and Institutional Disruption
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Aug 18, 2023 |
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E20: Martin Shkreli on Public Vilification, Lessons from Prison, and Getting Back in the Arena
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Aug 11, 2023 |
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E19: Economist Bryan Caplan on Non-conformity, Sex, Feminism and Homeschooling
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Aug 04, 2023 |
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E18: Marc Andreessen on AI, Religion, SF, Longevity, and the NPC Meme
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Jul 28, 2023 |
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E17: Noah Smith's Reflections on Biden's First Term, Foreign Policy, and Industrial Policy - Econ 102 with Noah Smith
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Jul 21, 2023 |
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E16: Agnes Callard on Dark Empathy, Being Straussian vs Being Sincere, and Philosophical Progress
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Jul 14, 2023 |
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E15: Richard Hanania on Vivek Ramaswamy, Affirmative Action, and the Winning Agenda for 2024
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Jul 07, 2023 |
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E14: Balaji Srinivasan on the Fiat Crisis, Russia, and China.
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Jun 30, 2023 |
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E13: Kevin Kelly on Multiple Futures, AI, and Becoming Better Humans
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Jun 23, 2023 |
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[Bonus] Palmer Luckey of Anduril Industries on China, DefenseTech, and U.S. Policy | The HIll & Valley
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Jun 16, 2023 |
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E12: Tim Urban on Liberalism, Heresy, and Equality
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Jun 09, 2023 |
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E11: Katherine Boyle on Building Companies, Families, and Careers
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Jun 02, 2023 |
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E10: Sam Harris on Populism, Polarization, and His Beef with the Left and the Right
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May 28, 2023 |
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[Bonus Episode] Moment of Zen w/ Mike Solana, Erik Torenberg and Dan Romero
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May 26, 2023 |
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E9: Benedict Evans on AI, Web3, VR and the Future of Tech
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May 19, 2023 |
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E8: Samo Burja on America's Future, China, AI, and the New Global Order
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May 12, 2023 |
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E7: How Andrew Yang Would Cure American Politics
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May 05, 2023 |
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E6: Vivek Ramaswamy on Running for President in 2024 and His Message to Silicon Valley
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Apr 29, 2023 |
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E5: How Exactly Joe Lonsdale Would Fix The Public Sector
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Apr 21, 2023 |
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E4: David Sacks on His Intellectual and Political Journey
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Apr 15, 2023 |
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E3: Ezra Klein on Supply-side Progressivism, Polarization, and What Silicon Valley Misses About Politics
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Apr 07, 2023 |
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E2: Balaji Srinivasan on His Past and Future predictions, the Future of the Left and Right, and Why Tech Can’t Escape Politics
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Mar 31, 2023 |
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E1: Marc Andreessen on His Intellectual Journey the Past Ten Years
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Mar 24, 2023 |
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Trailer: This is Upstream with Erik Torenberg
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Mar 24, 2023 |