Russia, every mention
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Russia comes up
ChatGPT and the Imagenet Moment
- ▶ 17:56 Benedict Evans So my, why was my Japan versus China, and the whole first paragraph is, um, well, Japan was much more successful at industrializing and modernizing its military, and then it fought a successful war against Russia.
Stories in the noise
- ▶ 26:54 Benedict Evans Um, and you know, so I think the Russians now have lost a thousand tanks. 8 times in the scene
The future of Twitter
- ▶ 24:48 Benedict Evans It's the Russians, it's culture wars, it's 500 people in San Francisco who are really angry about gentrification, screaming at 500 people who are really angry that nobody's building apartments.
Ukraine
- ▶ 0:03 Benedict Evans And I'm Benedict Evans, and today we thought we would talk about Ukraine without pretending that we know anything about Ukraine, Russia, or geopolitics, but rather just looking from the outside at some of the things that are happening in…
- ▶ 2:40 Benedict Evans Everyone has a smartphone, the mobile networks don't seem to have gone down, so you open Twitter, and you follow somebody, and there is a video of a Russian helicopter being shot down with a surface to a missile.
- ▶ 3:42 Benedict Evans So, so, so stepping aside from that, I mean, I think the, on the one hand, um, it's sort of interesting the degree to which Russia has shifted from being autocratic, but sort of open, and had the internet, and 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:36 Benedict Evans And B, much more consequentially, I don't think many people have really internalized the scale of the financial sanctions on Russia, like what it means that we've just sort of declared that they can't have this half of their central bank… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:50 Benedict Evans So how we run our economy for the next decade, and be looking at the shambles of the Russian military and thinking what lessons do we learn from that and what lessons do we learn from all these cheap Turkish drones. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:58 Benedict Evans Yeah, I mean, I think there was clearly a, you know, one of the read-acrosses here for China was, particularly for Apple, is, you know, any, anything Apple does in, in Russia will be seen in China.
- ▶ 19:45 Benedict Evans I see that, you know, the, the Norman Foster note saying we will not work in Russia ever again.
- ▶ 22:55 Toni Cowan-Brown So I'm in this weird world where all the news I'm getting about Ukraine is about the Russian drivers, the Russian sponsors, the Russian oligarchs in Formula One.
- ▶ 25:34 Benedict Evans And Russia is kind of the same. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:35 Benedict Evans Just today, I think the Russians have had half a dozen jets shot down, which is more than America had in the whole Gulf War. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:43 Benedict Evans I think it was Anthony Beaver, and he wrote his book about Stalingrad, um, in the introduction, he said that he was on a train in Russia, and he happened to be in the camp apartment with a fairly senior Russian, a Soviet officer, this… 7 times in the scene
Two Europeans talk about China
- ▶ 22:41 Benedict Evans Russia wants to be, but never really is. 2 times in the scene
F1 - the plane that never takes off
- ▶ 34:14 Benedict Evans And they would do a sprint to heat up the airframe, and then they would slow down and go and fill up the tanks from an in-flight refueling drop off, just outside the Russian border, obviously.
Is content moderation a dead end?
- ▶ 25:55 Benedict Evans Petersburg in 1917, which is that Russia had basically moved a huge chunk of population from being a, from being peasants scattered all over the country to being highly concentrated in
- ▶ 40:38 Benedict Evans It's easy to talk about the Russians and that's kind of displacement because that's not the real problem.