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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

Because the global cabal theory says two things. First, everything is controlled by a very small number of people. Secondly, these people hide themselves. They do it in secret. Now, both things are nonsense. It's impossible for people to control, a small group of people, to control and predict everything because the world is too complicated. You know, you look at a real-world conspiracy.

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

Conspiracy is basically just a plan. Think about the American invasion of Iraq in 2003. You had the most powerful superpower in the world with the biggest military, with the biggest intelligence services, with the most sophisticated, you know, the FBI and the CIA and all the agents. They invade a third-rate country country, third-rate power, Iraq.

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

Conspiracy is basically just a plan. Think about the American invasion of Iraq in 2003. You had the most powerful superpower in the world with the biggest military, with the biggest intelligence services, with the most sophisticated, you know, the FBI and the CIA and all the agents. They invade a third-rate country country, third-rate power, Iraq.

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

Conspiracy is basically just a plan. Think about the American invasion of Iraq in 2003. You had the most powerful superpower in the world with the biggest military, with the biggest intelligence services, with the most sophisticated, you know, the FBI and the CIA and all the agents. They invade a third-rate country country, third-rate power, Iraq.

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

With this idea, we'll take over Iraq and we'll control it, we'll make a new order in the Middle East. And everything falls apart. Their plan completely backfires. Everything they hoped to achieve, they achieved the opposite. America, United States, is humiliated. They caused the rise of ISIS. They wanted to take out terrorism. They created more terrorism.

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

With this idea, we'll take over Iraq and we'll control it, we'll make a new order in the Middle East. And everything falls apart. Their plan completely backfires. Everything they hoped to achieve, they achieved the opposite. America, United States, is humiliated. They caused the rise of ISIS. They wanted to take out terrorism. They created more terrorism.

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

With this idea, we'll take over Iraq and we'll control it, we'll make a new order in the Middle East. And everything falls apart. Their plan completely backfires. Everything they hoped to achieve, they achieved the opposite. America, United States, is humiliated. They caused the rise of ISIS. They wanted to take out terrorism. They created more terrorism.

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

Worst of all, the big winner of the war was Iran. The United States goes to war with all its power and gives Iran a victory on a silver plate. The Iranians don't need to do anything. The Americans are doing everything for them. Now, this is real history.

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

Worst of all, the big winner of the war was Iran. The United States goes to war with all its power and gives Iran a victory on a silver plate. The Iranians don't need to do anything. The Americans are doing everything for them. Now, this is real history.

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

Worst of all, the big winner of the war was Iran. The United States goes to war with all its power and gives Iran a victory on a silver plate. The Iranians don't need to do anything. The Americans are doing everything for them. Now, this is real history.

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

Real history is when you have not a small group of people, a lot of people with a lot of power, carefully planning something, and it goes completely against their plan. And this we know from personal experience. Every time we try to plan something, a birthday party, a surprise birthday party, a trip somewhere, Things go wrong. This is reality.

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

Real history is when you have not a small group of people, a lot of people with a lot of power, carefully planning something, and it goes completely against their plan. And this we know from personal experience. Every time we try to plan something, a birthday party, a surprise birthday party, a trip somewhere, Things go wrong. This is reality.

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

Real history is when you have not a small group of people, a lot of people with a lot of power, carefully planning something, and it goes completely against their plan. And this we know from personal experience. Every time we try to plan something, a birthday party, a surprise birthday party, a trip somewhere, Things go wrong. This is reality.

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

So the idea that a small group of, I don't know, the Jewish cabal, the Freemasons, whoever, they can really control and predict all the wars, this is nonsense. The second thing that is nonsense is to think they can do that and still remain secret. It sometimes happens in history that a small group of people accumulates a lot of power.

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

So the idea that a small group of, I don't know, the Jewish cabal, the Freemasons, whoever, they can really control and predict all the wars, this is nonsense. The second thing that is nonsense is to think they can do that and still remain secret. It sometimes happens in history that a small group of people accumulates a lot of power.

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

So the idea that a small group of, I don't know, the Jewish cabal, the Freemasons, whoever, they can really control and predict all the wars, this is nonsense. The second thing that is nonsense is to think they can do that and still remain secret. It sometimes happens in history that a small group of people accumulates a lot of power.

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

If I now tell you that Xi Jinping and the heads of the CCP, the Chinese Communist Party, they have a lot of power. They control the military, the media, the economy, the University of China. This is not a conspiracy theory. Obviously, everybody knows it. Everybody knows it. Because to gain so much power, you usually need publicity.

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

If I now tell you that Xi Jinping and the heads of the CCP, the Chinese Communist Party, they have a lot of power. They control the military, the media, the economy, the University of China. This is not a conspiracy theory. Obviously, everybody knows it. Everybody knows it. Because to gain so much power, you usually need publicity.

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

If I now tell you that Xi Jinping and the heads of the CCP, the Chinese Communist Party, they have a lot of power. They control the military, the media, the economy, the University of China. This is not a conspiracy theory. Obviously, everybody knows it. Everybody knows it. Because to gain so much power, you usually need publicity.

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

Hitler gained a lot of power in Nazi Germany because he had a lot of publicity. If Hitler remained unknown, working behind the scenes, he would not gain power. So the way to gain power is usually through publicity. So secret cabals don't gain power. And even if you gain a lot of power, nobody has the kind of power necessary to predict and control everything that happens in the world.