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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

But if you now direct the fire against certain people, so instead of all humans cooperating against real common threats, whether it's the rise of AI, whether it's global warming, you're only causing us to fight each other. And I think that the key question that people who spread these ideas, I mean, many of them, they honestly believe. It's not malicious. They honestly believe in these theories.

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

But if you now direct the fire against certain people, so instead of all humans cooperating against real common threats, whether it's the rise of AI, whether it's global warming, you're only causing us to fight each other. And I think that the key question that people who spread these ideas, I mean, many of them, they honestly believe. It's not malicious. They honestly believe in these theories.

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

But if you now direct the fire against certain people, so instead of all humans cooperating against real common threats, whether it's the rise of AI, whether it's global warming, you're only causing us to fight each other. And I think that the key question that people who spread these ideas, I mean, many of them, they honestly believe. It's not malicious. They honestly believe in these theories.

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

Do you want to spend your life spreading hate? towards people, or do you want to work on more constructive projects? I think one of the big differences between those who believe in conspiracy theories and people who warn about the dangers of AI, the dangers of climate change, we don't see certain humans as evil and hateful. The problem isn't humans. The problem is something outside humanity.

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

Do you want to spend your life spreading hate? towards people, or do you want to work on more constructive projects? I think one of the big differences between those who believe in conspiracy theories and people who warn about the dangers of AI, the dangers of climate change, we don't see certain humans as evil and hateful. The problem isn't humans. The problem is something outside humanity.

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

Do you want to spend your life spreading hate? towards people, or do you want to work on more constructive projects? I think one of the big differences between those who believe in conspiracy theories and people who warn about the dangers of AI, the dangers of climate change, we don't see certain humans as evil and hateful. The problem isn't humans. The problem is something outside humanity.

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

Yes, humans are contributing to the problem, but ultimately the enemy is external to humanity. Whereas conspiracy theories usually claim that a certain part of humanity is the source of all evil, which leads them to eventually think in terms of exterminating this part of humanity, which leads sometimes to historical disasters like Nazism.

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

Yes, humans are contributing to the problem, but ultimately the enemy is external to humanity. Whereas conspiracy theories usually claim that a certain part of humanity is the source of all evil, which leads them to eventually think in terms of exterminating this part of humanity, which leads sometimes to historical disasters like Nazism.

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

Yes, humans are contributing to the problem, but ultimately the enemy is external to humanity. Whereas conspiracy theories usually claim that a certain part of humanity is the source of all evil, which leads them to eventually think in terms of exterminating this part of humanity, which leads sometimes to historical disasters like Nazism.

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

I think it is within the power of every individual to make the world a little bit better. You know, you can't do everything. Don't try to do everything. Find one thing in your areas of activity, a place where you have some agency and try to do that and hope that other people do their bit. And if everybody do their bit, we'll manage. And if we don't, we don't, but at least we try.

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

I think it is within the power of every individual to make the world a little bit better. You know, you can't do everything. Don't try to do everything. Find one thing in your areas of activity, a place where you have some agency and try to do that and hope that other people do their bit. And if everybody do their bit, we'll manage. And if we don't, we don't, but at least we try.

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

I think it is within the power of every individual to make the world a little bit better. You know, you can't do everything. Don't try to do everything. Find one thing in your areas of activity, a place where you have some agency and try to do that and hope that other people do their bit. And if everybody do their bit, we'll manage. And if we don't, we don't, but at least we try.

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

I think ultimately you can't. We can't. I mean, it's like proving consciousness. You can't. That's just the situation. Whatever you say can and will be used against you by some people. So this fantasy, if I only say this, if I only show them that, if I only have this data, they will see I'm okay. It doesn't work like that.

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

I think ultimately you can't. We can't. I mean, it's like proving consciousness. You can't. That's just the situation. Whatever you say can and will be used against you by some people. So this fantasy, if I only say this, if I only show them that, if I only have this data, they will see I'm okay. It doesn't work like that.

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

I think ultimately you can't. We can't. I mean, it's like proving consciousness. You can't. That's just the situation. Whatever you say can and will be used against you by some people. So this fantasy, if I only say this, if I only show them that, if I only have this data, they will see I'm okay. It doesn't work like that.

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

I think to keep your sanity in this situation, first of all, it's important to understand that most of these people are not evil. They are not doing it on purpose. Many of them really believe that there is some very nefarious, powerful conspiracy, which is causing a lot of harm in the world. And they are doing a good thing by exposing it and making people aware of it and trying to stop it.

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

I think to keep your sanity in this situation, first of all, it's important to understand that most of these people are not evil. They are not doing it on purpose. Many of them really believe that there is some very nefarious, powerful conspiracy, which is causing a lot of harm in the world. And they are doing a good thing by exposing it and making people aware of it and trying to stop it.

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

I think to keep your sanity in this situation, first of all, it's important to understand that most of these people are not evil. They are not doing it on purpose. Many of them really believe that there is some very nefarious, powerful conspiracy, which is causing a lot of harm in the world. And they are doing a good thing by exposing it and making people aware of it and trying to stop it.

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

If you think that you're surrounded by evil, you're falling into the same rabbit hole. You're falling into the same paranoid state of mind. Oh, the world is full of these evil people. No, most of them are good people. And also I think we can empathize with some of the key ideas there, which I share, that yes, it's becoming more and more difficult to understand what is happening in the world.

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

If you think that you're surrounded by evil, you're falling into the same rabbit hole. You're falling into the same paranoid state of mind. Oh, the world is full of these evil people. No, most of them are good people. And also I think we can empathize with some of the key ideas there, which I share, that yes, it's becoming more and more difficult to understand what is happening in the world.