A Russian View: Post-Mobilization Edition (Robert Wright & Nikita Petrov)

Robert Wright's Nonzero

Nonzero

News & Politics, Philosophy, Society & Culture

4.7 • 618 Ratings

🗓️ 11 October 2022

⏱️ 104 minutes

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A few words about cognitive empathy ... Update: Nikita re-exits Russia ... Gauging Russian opinion on the Ukraine war post-mobilization ... How informed are the Russian people about the war? ... Does the West overestimate the absoluteness of Putin’s power? ... Watching "Putin’s chef" recruit prisoners for military service ... The difficulties in grasping “the” Russian perspective ... Trying to comprehend Putin’s psychology ... Was the Ukraine invasion inevitable? ... Is everything just one big cynical power game? ... The Biden State Department’s momentously zero-sum view of US-Russia relations ... The economic factors that helped shape modern Russia ... Is AI capable of cognitive empathy? ...

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0:00.0	You're listening to Robert Wright's Non-Zero podcast.
0:08.0	Hi, Nikita.
0:10.0	Hey, Bob.
0:11.3	How are you doing?
0:13.9	I can't complain.
0:16.3	Let me introduce us.
0:18.0	I'm Robert Wright.
0:19.8	This is the Non-Zero podcast. I also published a non-zero newsletter.
0:24.2	You're Nikita Petrov. Familiar to regular both, I guess, newsletter readers and our podcast listeners.
0:33.0	You used to do a lot of work for non-zero.
0:37.5	Now you're focusing on other things like putting out your newsletter,
0:42.4	Psychopolitica.
0:44.0	Also working for the Glenn Show, which we kind of helped launch.
0:51.7	You and I at least the, at least the kind of the, the, the, the current
0:56.9	version of it. Yeah, well, you hosted the show for, not hosted, but your platform hosted the show
1:03.0	for the show per se. Yeah, I kind of launched many, many years ago, but, but kind of, uh, the,
1:09.8	the, the current version of it, it, you were instrumental in launching.
1:14.1	Anyway, it's doing very well.
1:17.0	You're doing well relative to how you were doing not so long ago,
1:22.4	because not so long ago, you were in Russia hoping you'd be able to get out.
1:29.3	This was after Putin ordered demobilization.
1:32.4	I want to get into all this.
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