Can Substack Notes Be a Better Twitter? (Robert Wright & Nikita Petrov)

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🗓️ 17 April 2023

⏱️ 96 minutes

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1:29 The promise (and perils) of Notes, Substack’s new social media platform10:08 One big way Notes could be a better Twitter24:47 Nikita’s grand vision for Notes—and Substack41:21 User control vs. the allure of algorithms48:09 Is a better culture of discourse possible through Notes?1:06:11 How Notes benefits from elite buy-in1:15:15 Bob’s advice for Substack: Don't be like Microsoft!1:24:40 Towards a civil society

Robert Wright (Bloggingheads.tv, The Evolution of God, Nonzero, Why Buddhism Is True) and Nikita Petrov (https://psychopolitica.substack.com/). Recorded April 15, 2023.

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0:00.0	You're listening to Robert Wright's Non-Zero podcast.
0:32.0	Are you, Keita?
0:36.5	Hey, Bob.
0:38.3	How you doing?
0:41.4	I am, you know, life just keeps happening.
0:45.0	I'm starting to take some comfort in the idea that it's not going to at some point.
0:50.6	I'm good.
0:51.4	I'm good.
0:53.0	Okay.
0:57.2	I'm glad you're good. So let me introduce this.
1:03.4	I'm Robert Wright, publisher of Non-Zero Newsletter. This is a non-zero podcast.
1:04.5	You're in the Keita Petrov.
1:13.6	Publisher of the Psychopolitica newsletter, which coincidentally is a word that appears immediately in your background. I wonder how that happened. You've got the whole URL there.
1:16.6	psychopolitica.substack.com.
1:18.6	You might, yeah, since this is going to be a split screen, people might not see it.
1:23.6	I had worried that the many years of communism in your homeland had maybe snuffed out all self-promotional instincts, but no, no, you're, you're, you seem equipped to thrive in a capitalist economy.
1:39.3	Anyway, you are, you used to work with me at Non-Zero.
1:45.3	You currently work with Glenn Lowry at the Glenn Show, and you do all your own stuff on
1:51.4	Psychopolitica.
1:52.8	You're still in Armenia, I gather, and then growing up in Russia.
1:57.3	And we're, we're going to talk about, um, substack notes,
2:01.5	this new feature that some people say is a rival to Twitter.
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