Yuval Noah Harari's really awful history

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  @theburningarchive · 1 year ago · pinned

  The De/Cypher Journal of the Advaced Study Institute of Asia in Delhi have published my article based on this video here <a href="https://asiaresearch.co/de-cypher-journal-future-tense-in-south-asia/">https://asiaresearch.co/de-cypher-journal-future-tense-in-south-asia/</a>. It has additional references, and please subscribe to <a href="https://jeffrich.substack.com/">https://jeffrich.substack.com</a> for further thoughts on Harari and AI

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  @vothila · 2 years ago

  The fact that Harari is taken seriously as an intellectual really shows us how bad things are in our world currently!

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  @dudleybarker2273 · 2 years ago

  when the oligarchy needs a new mythmaker they simply buy one

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  @fearofmusic1312 · 2 years ago (edited)

  Harari&apos;s works aren&apos;t history but commercials for techno-feudalist capitalism.

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  @shahinchoudhury8256 · 1 year ago

  His fame is actually much more PR &amp; colabs with a certain type of politicians (ahem ahem funded by rich people), <br>also the media that promoted him, are also controlled by the same rich people.

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  @TheAS016 · 2 years ago (edited)

  The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber and David Wengrow is a great example of a book that tries to tell &quot;the great story of human (pre)history&quot; based on the recent scientific findings. They also heavily critisize Harari at several points and it is definitely worth a read!

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  @PabluchoViision · 2 years ago (edited)

  I find the bizarre reductionist passage at <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAzl76PwC1E&amp;t=1410">23:30</a> breathtaking in its stupidity. The lottery player’s joy at hitting the winning number is not a reaction to the pleasurable hormones / neurotransmitters coursing through her body. Those physioneurochemical fireworks, rather, ARE the reaction, i.e. they are what the joy is physiologically made of. But the joy is most definitely a reaction TO learning that she holds the prizewinning ticket, filtered through the nearly instantaneous cognition of certain real-life consequences she expects will flow from winning the prize (ability to quit her accounting job and take up ceramics, spend more time with family, move to a bigger house, pay off debts, take vacations, etc.). Falling in love is apples and oranges with winning the lottery as the latter is a single discrete event, and the former a complex process. But Harari’s confusion is reminiscent of that insight so many of us had at 14 or 15: “Love is a chemical reaction.” Or the insights so popular on YouTube these days, that the self, or consciousness, are illusions. These are egregious category errors that ignore the crucial concept of emergent properties of systems. It’s a bit like saying that Pavlova dancing is just a bunch of atoms in motion, or Shakespeare’s plays are just an array of words—banally correct, but explains nothing.

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  @almishti · 1 year ago

  He&apos;s kind of just a tech bro doing a PR campaign for future tech, transhumanism, and ai, but much like most tech bros his vision of the future is already obsolete b/c of the essentially 19th century basis of his historical views, that have been outdated for a long time now but whose carcass continues to decay and stink up humanity&apos;s attempts to achieve genuine progress.

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  @PabluchoViision · 2 years ago (edited)

  When a person is lionized to the degree Harari is (in the media, WEF/corporate world, academia, etc.), it is almost impossible for hubris not to ensue.

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  @danmccalldesign · 2 years ago

  He’s very cordially explaining that Yarari is an elite plant with rubbish history.

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  @nk-gp1ml · 2 years ago

  His ‘facts’ and analysis on the issue of Israel and the Palestinians are worse than awful exposing the true nature of this individual.

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  @buglepong · 2 years ago

  when tech/finance bros try to do philosophy

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