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Yuval Noah Harari

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
1053 total appearances

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#390 โ€“ Yuval Noah Harari: Human Nature, Intelligence, Power, and Conspiracies

If you now flood the public sphere with millions and potentially billions of AI agents that can hold conversations, they never sleep, they never eat, they don't have emotions of their own, they can get to know you and tailor their words specifically for you and your life story. They are becoming better than us at creating stories and ideas and so forth.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#390 โ€“ Yuval Noah Harari: Human Nature, Intelligence, Power, and Conspiracies

If you now flood the public sphere with millions and potentially billions of AI agents that can hold conversations, they never sleep, they never eat, they don't have emotions of their own, they can get to know you and tailor their words specifically for you and your life story. They are becoming better than us at creating stories and ideas and so forth.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#390 โ€“ Yuval Noah Harari: Human Nature, Intelligence, Power, and Conspiracies

If you flood the public sphere with that, this will ruin the conversation between people. It will ruin the trust between people. You will no longer be able to have a democracy in this situation. You can have other types of regimes, but no democracy.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#390 โ€“ Yuval Noah Harari: Human Nature, Intelligence, Power, and Conspiracies

If you flood the public sphere with that, this will ruin the conversation between people. It will ruin the trust between people. You will no longer be able to have a democracy in this situation. You can have other types of regimes, but no democracy.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#390 โ€“ Yuval Noah Harari: Human Nature, Intelligence, Power, and Conspiracies

If you flood the public sphere with that, this will ruin the conversation between people. It will ruin the trust between people. You will no longer be able to have a democracy in this situation. You can have other types of regimes, but no democracy.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#390 โ€“ Yuval Noah Harari: Human Nature, Intelligence, Power, and Conspiracies

Absolutely.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#390 โ€“ Yuval Noah Harari: Human Nature, Intelligence, Power, and Conspiracies

Absolutely.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#390 โ€“ Yuval Noah Harari: Human Nature, Intelligence, Power, and Conspiracies

Absolutely.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#390 โ€“ Yuval Noah Harari: Human Nature, Intelligence, Power, and Conspiracies

When somebody is suffering, that's true. I mean, this is why one of the things when you talk about suffering as a kind of alternate reality, when somebody suffers, that is truth. Now, somebody can suffer because of a fictional story. Like somebody tells people that God said you must go on this crusade and kill these heretics. And this is a completely fictional story.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#390 โ€“ Yuval Noah Harari: Human Nature, Intelligence, Power, and Conspiracies

When somebody is suffering, that's true. I mean, this is why one of the things when you talk about suffering as a kind of alternate reality, when somebody suffers, that is truth. Now, somebody can suffer because of a fictional story. Like somebody tells people that God said you must go on this crusade and kill these heretics. And this is a completely fictional story.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#390 โ€“ Yuval Noah Harari: Human Nature, Intelligence, Power, and Conspiracies

When somebody is suffering, that's true. I mean, this is why one of the things when you talk about suffering as a kind of alternate reality, when somebody suffers, that is truth. Now, somebody can suffer because of a fictional story. Like somebody tells people that God said you must go on this crusade and kill these heretics. And this is a completely fictional story.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#390 โ€“ Yuval Noah Harari: Human Nature, Intelligence, Power, and Conspiracies

And people believe it and they start a war and they destroy cities and kill people. The people that suffer because of that, and even the crusaders themselves that also suffer the consequences of what they do, the suffering is true, even though it is caused by a fictional story. Similarly, when people agree on certain rules, the rules could come out of our imagination.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#390 โ€“ Yuval Noah Harari: Human Nature, Intelligence, Power, and Conspiracies

And people believe it and they start a war and they destroy cities and kill people. The people that suffer because of that, and even the crusaders themselves that also suffer the consequences of what they do, the suffering is true, even though it is caused by a fictional story. Similarly, when people agree on certain rules, the rules could come out of our imagination.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#390 โ€“ Yuval Noah Harari: Human Nature, Intelligence, Power, and Conspiracies

And people believe it and they start a war and they destroy cities and kill people. The people that suffer because of that, and even the crusaders themselves that also suffer the consequences of what they do, the suffering is true, even though it is caused by a fictional story. Similarly, when people agree on certain rules, the rules could come out of our imagination.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#390 โ€“ Yuval Noah Harari: Human Nature, Intelligence, Power, and Conspiracies

Now, we can be truthful about it and say these rules, they didn't come from heaven. They came from our imagination. You know, we look at sports. So we have rules for the game of football, soccer. They were invented by people. Nobody, at least very few people, claim that the rules of football came down from heaven. We invented them. And this is truthful.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#390 โ€“ Yuval Noah Harari: Human Nature, Intelligence, Power, and Conspiracies

Now, we can be truthful about it and say these rules, they didn't come from heaven. They came from our imagination. You know, we look at sports. So we have rules for the game of football, soccer. They were invented by people. Nobody, at least very few people, claim that the rules of football came down from heaven. We invented them. And this is truthful.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#390 โ€“ Yuval Noah Harari: Human Nature, Intelligence, Power, and Conspiracies

Now, we can be truthful about it and say these rules, they didn't come from heaven. They came from our imagination. You know, we look at sports. So we have rules for the game of football, soccer. They were invented by people. Nobody, at least very few people, claim that the rules of football came down from heaven. We invented them. And this is truthful.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#390 โ€“ Yuval Noah Harari: Human Nature, Intelligence, Power, and Conspiracies

There are fictional rules invented by humans, and this is true. They were invented by humans. And when you are honest about it, it enables you to change the rules, which has been done in football every now and then. It's the same with the fundamental rules of a country. You can pretend that the rules came down from heaven, dictated by God or whatever, and then you can't change them.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#390 โ€“ Yuval Noah Harari: Human Nature, Intelligence, Power, and Conspiracies

There are fictional rules invented by humans, and this is true. They were invented by humans. And when you are honest about it, it enables you to change the rules, which has been done in football every now and then. It's the same with the fundamental rules of a country. You can pretend that the rules came down from heaven, dictated by God or whatever, and then you can't change them.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#390 โ€“ Yuval Noah Harari: Human Nature, Intelligence, Power, and Conspiracies

There are fictional rules invented by humans, and this is true. They were invented by humans. And when you are honest about it, it enables you to change the rules, which has been done in football every now and then. It's the same with the fundamental rules of a country. You can pretend that the rules came down from heaven, dictated by God or whatever, and then you can't change them.