"Upstream" with Erik Torenberg

E41: Steve Hsu on the Future of Everything

E40: Develop Your Personal Investing Strategy with Itay Vinik

E39: Balaji Srinivasan and Nathan Labenz on AI's Future, Human-AI Symbiosis, and AI Control

E38: Holiday Special: Request for Startups

E37: Noor Siddiqui on embryo screening, the fertility crisis, and parenting

E36: Beff Jezos on doxxing, e/acc, and why crypto will save AI

E35: Samo Burja on Sam Altman, Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, and George Soros

E34: Byrne Hobart on Sam Altman, Meta vs Google, and Effective Altruism

E33: The Untold History of Nuclear Energy with Packy McCormick and Julia DeWahl

E32: Balaji on SBF and the Israel-Hamas War

E31: Sam Lessin on Why We’re Heading into a New Era of Venture

E30: Aaron Ginn on the Moral Idea Maze, the GPU Revolution, and US-China Relations

E29: Sense-Making, a Top 1% Information Diet, and Generation Warfare with Michael Guimarin

E28: Richard Hanania Returns | Trump, the Sexual Revolution, and Immigration

E27: Robin Hanson on Elites, Experts, and the Truths We Resist

E26: Ben Horowitz on AI, the Future of Venture Capital, and Wartime VCs

E25: Jon Askonas on 2nd Order Effects of AI, the Media Ecology of Reality, and Conservatism

This podcast episode delves into the transformative effects of the internet on society, paralleling its impact to the printing press and exploring how it fosters fragmentation rather than consensus reality. Guest Jon Askonas presents a vision of future geopolitics dominated by super-states controlling essential network...

E24: Balaji Srinivasan on Social Tribalism, Cloud Cartography, Internet Values

E23: Emad Mostaque and Sam Lessin Debate Whether AI is a Good Investment for VC

E22: Vivek Ramaswamy on his Presidential Run, Intellectually Oppressive Culture, Otherism