Robert Wright
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595 appearances
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first heard Nov 2024
last heard Nov 2024
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I I mean we shouldn't underestimate the extent to which that applies in China, by the way.
You know, autocrats can't, they're not actually autocrats.
They don't actually have uncontested control of the country.
They fear popular sentiment in a way more than a democratically elected politician does.
So they have their domestic political constraints, but in some ways that they do have more room to maneuver than us.
And in that sense, we sometimes are the problem because
Our internal dynamics uh make us the unreliable player in an international relationship.
So that's uh some total of my wisdom.
Yeah, no, you're doing God's work.
Um, it's uh
It's such a challenge.
I mean the th like for example, the things you're talking about, sister cities programs or something.
As as the as the climate gets more and more hostile toward China, uh doing things like that starts uh
you know, incurring the risk of being called, you know, uh a China sympathizer.
I just hate this whole category of labels like you're doing Putin talking points, you're doing this, you're doing that.
I mean
You know, uh
I I but well, part of my my the background for this is I I think it's funny, I'm I'm I'm doing this book on AI.
Uh that'll come out next year, but um
It it actually I was originally I now have a two book contract, uh, with Simon Schuster because the ri the book I was going to write was about cognitive empathy, uh, which just means doesn't mean feeling their pain.
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