Yuval Noah Harari

12 statements across 1 episodes · 0 bullish · 4 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jan 2, 2019 by Yuval Noah Harari · said 12 times in 7 episodes since 2018 · across every show →

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Jan 2, 2019 neutral
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Harari: Religion functions as a virtual reality game with imaginary rules
“Religion is a virtual reality game that provides people with meaning by imposing imaginary rules on an objective reality.”
Yuval Noah Harari Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 31:49 a16z Podcast | Brains, Bodies, Minds ... and Techno-Religions
Jan 2, 2019 neutral
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Harari: Corporations and governments will soon understand individuals better than themselves
“What we will see with regard to the individual is that at a certain point, external entities, whether it's corporations or whether it's governments, they will have enough data, especially biometric data, and enough computing power to be able to understand me b…”
Yuval Noah Harari Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 11:18 a16z Podcast | Brains, Bodies, Minds ... and Techno-Religions
Jan 2, 2019
Insight
Harari: Governments lose incentive to fund public services without military need
“But if you don't need them as soldiers or workers, then the incentive to build hospitals and schools and so forth diminishes.”
Yuval Noah Harari Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 37:57 a16z Podcast | Brains, Bodies, Minds ... and Techno-Religions
Jan 2, 2019
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Harari: Algorithmic authority's major breakthrough will rely on biometric data
“I think the big breakthrough will come with biometric data. So far, most of these algorithms, whether it's Amazon or Netflix or whatever, they work mainly on the basis of data external to my body. They follow me around in space, see where I go, which places I …”
Yuval Noah Harari Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 16:04 a16z Podcast | Brains, Bodies, Minds ... and Techno-Religions
Jan 2, 2019
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Harari: Most people today have absolutely no military value
“Most people today have absolutely no military value.”
Yuval Noah Harari Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 36:53 a16z Podcast | Brains, Bodies, Minds ... and Techno-Religions
Jan 2, 2019 negative
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Harari: Neo-nationalism is a temporary phase incapable of solving global problems
“The present stage of neo-nationalism or tribalism, I think it's just a phase. It's a backlash against globalization, and the main problem, it doesn't have any solutions to the deep problems of the 21st century. All the major problems of humankind in the 21st c…”
Yuval Noah Harari Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 10:25 a16z Podcast | Brains, Bodies, Minds ... and Techno-Religions
Jan 2, 2019 negative
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Harari: Neuroscience shows there is no single authentic self
“Science now tells us that when you look inside, you don't find any single authentic self. You find a cacophony of different conflicting voices that Well, none of which is your true self. There is just no such thing.”
Yuval Noah Harari Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 7:57 a16z Podcast | Brains, Bodies, Minds ... and Techno-Religions
Jan 2, 2019 negative
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Harari: Biotechnology could convert economic inequality into permanent biological inequality
“However, in the 21st century it might be possible for the first time to translate economic inequality into real biological inequality. And once this starts, it becomes almost impossible to close the gap.”
Yuval Noah Harari Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 30:29 a16z Podcast | Brains, Bodies, Minds ... and Techno-Religions
Jan 2, 2019
Insight
Harari: AI disruption requires global solutions, but UBI proponents think nationally
“And a disruption of the economy, say by the rise of AI, will require a global solution. And most people who think about universal basic income, they think in national terms. Universal for them means US citizens.”
Yuval Noah Harari Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 27:02 a16z Podcast | Brains, Bodies, Minds ... and Techno-Religions
Jan 2, 2019 bearish
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Harari: Superior algorithms will render democracy and free markets completely obsolete
“And once you have an external entity, An algorithm that knows me better than I know myself. This is the real turning point. This is the point when individualism as we've known, it doesn't make any sense when democracy in the free market become completely obsol…”
Yuval Noah Harari Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 11:48 a16z Podcast | Brains, Bodies, Minds ... and Techno-Religions
Jan 2, 2019
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Harari: AI civilian economy transition will occur within 20 to 40 years
“We are talking in terms of decades. And once the transition takes place, especially in the civilian economy, in the military, it already happened. We are there. In the civilian economy, maybe we have 20 years, 30 years, 40 years, nobody really knows.”
Yuval Noah Harari Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 39:09 a16z Podcast | Brains, Bodies, Minds ... and Techno-Religions
Jan 2, 2019 neutral
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Harari: 21st century's main products will be bodies, brains, and minds
“I think the main products of the 21st century will be bodies and brains and minds.”
Yuval Noah Harari Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 2:09 a16z Podcast | Brains, Bodies, Minds ... and Techno-Religions
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