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The Generalist

“The future is already here. It’s just not evenly distributed.” The Generalist Podcast brings you weekly conversations with the people who live in these pockets of the future – visionary founders, prescient investors, and original thinkers. Each episode is designed to introduce you to new ideas, technologies, and markets and help you prepare for the world of tomorrow.

Website ↗ Last published 3 November 2026 53 posts collected by Sputnik

Said on The Generalist

“If you're not touching and moving the world and you're a robot, what are you doing? … If you don't touch and move the world, you're basically just moving a sensor around. And if you're moving a sensor around and you're not touching the world, well, you could use a drone, and drones work pretty well today. … But then in a lot of other cases, you could often just tape that sensor to a wall.” — Pete Florence, The Generalist
Pete Florence · 20 Oct 2026 Listen →
“It's crazy, but putting a bunch of hard drives in a backpack and getting on a plane turns out the bandwidth of that is pretty hard to beat compared to the internet.” — Pete Florence, The Generalist
Pete Florence · 20 Oct 2026 Listen →
“We are pulling the trigger on this Russian roulette with the planet. And every shot that doesn't kill us will make us stronger potentially and wealthier and better off. But when do you stop pulling the trigger? At one point, you know that it will be one too much.” — Jaan Tallinn, The Generalist
Jaan Tallinn · 8 Oct 2026 Listen →
“We are not designing those AIs. We are selecting them. Just like evolution ... which means that we are selecting based on outer behavior rather than based on the inner motivations. If a child goes, I didn't take the cookie, this is outward behavior. And there could be multiple motivations why this child is saying that. One is that they just really want to tell the truth. The other is that they don't want to be punished.” — Jaan Tallinn, The Generalist
Jaan Tallinn · 8 Oct 2026 Listen →

Hosts

The Generalist is hosted by Mario Gabriele .

Recent Episodes

  1. 3 Nov 2026

    A portrait of eight billion people

    With Joon Sung Park

  2. 20 Oct 2026

    Pete Florence: When Robots Improvise

    With Pete Florence

  3. 8 Oct 2026

    Jaan Tallinn would like us to survive

    With Jaan Tallinn

  4. 29 Sep 2026

    Periodic Labs: A chatbot walks into a laboratory

    With Dogus Cubuk and Liam Fedus

  5. 8 Sep 2026

    An Ex-SpaceX Engineer on Elon Musk, Starship, and Building a $1B-Valued Startup (Scott Morton, Founder & CEO of Revel)

    With Scott Morton

  6. 18 Aug 2026

    38x in Ten Months: Inside One of Fintech’s Fastest-Growing Infrastructure Companies (Farooq Malik, CEO of Rain)

    With Farooq Malik

  7. 4 Aug 2026

    AI Got Good at Language. Now It’s Learning the Language of Life. (Eric Nguyen, Co-Founder and CEO of Radical Numerics)

    With Eric Nguyen

  8. 30 Jun 2026

    The Token Budget Problem Nobody Is Talking About (Matan Grinberg, Co-Founder & CEO of Factory)

    With Matan Grinberg

  9. 23 Jun 2026

    Own or Be Owned: Why Every Company Needs Its Own AI Model (Yash Patil, Co-Founder & CEO of Applied Compute)

    With Yash Patil

  10. 2 Jun 2026

    What America Is Missing Between Sanctions and Nuclear War (Bryon Hargis, Co-Founder & CEO of Castelion)

    With Bryon Hargis

  11. 19 May 2026

    “Our Goal Is to Build an Electrical Engineer.” (Davide Asnaghi, Co-Founder & CEO of Diode)

    With Davide Asnaghi

  12. 5 May 2026

    Investing Like A Mystic: How Cyan Banister Finds Outliers (Co-Founder of Long Journey Ventures)

    With Cyan Banister

Guests

David Krakauer , Viswa Colluru , Tudor Achim , Yash Patil , Scott Morton , Anil Varanasi , Nadia Asparouhova , Parth Garg , Eve Bodnia , Scott Nolan , Zach Dell , Bob Mumgaard , and 44 more.