Visit podcastchoices.In English, the book says that “we are constantly told that we are living in a new and frightening era of ‘post-truth’”, citing the annexation of the peninsula as an example.
Enjoy! Books:-Jared Diamond’s Guns, Germs, & Steel-Frans de Waal’s Chimpanzee Politics-Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World We talk about that, and also:-His theory on how all large-scale collaboration is based on fictions, from mythologies and religions to nationalism to human rights-Why he sees money as one of the greatest stories human beings have ever told-Why he reads only 5-10 pages of a huge number of books-His theory that human beings have moved from venerating gods, to venerating themselves, to venerating data - and what that means for our future-How we treat other animals and what that might imply for how artificial intelligences could treat us -Whether wide swaths of human beings will be rendered useless by advances in computing-The ways in which a narrow idea of what intelligence is - and the way it relates to consciousness - is holding us back from understanding AIThis is one of my favorite conversations we’ve had. But what I didn’t expect was how central his consistent practice of vipassana meditation - which includes a 60-day silent retreat each year - is to understanding the works of both history and futurism he produces. A clear one.Virtually everything Harari says in this conversation in fascinating. I’ve had one big question about him: what kind of mind creates a book like that? And now I know. I’ve wanted to talk to Harari since reading Sapiens. And it, too, is fantastically interesting.
His new book, Homo Deus, is about what comes next for humanity - and the threat our own intelligence and creative capacity poses to our future. The Israeli historian’s mind-bending tour through the trump of Homo sapiens is a favorite of, among others, Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, and Barack Obama. Yuval Noah Harari’s first book, “Sapiens,” was an international sensation.
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