Israeli - Historian | February 24, 1976 -
Dataism is a new ethical system that says, yes, humans were special and important because up until now they were the most sophisticated data processing system in the universe, but this is no longer the case.
Yuval Noah Harari
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The idea that humans will always have a unique ability beyond the reach of non-conscious algorithms is just wishful thinking.
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Homo sapiens, you and me, we are basically the same as people 10,000 years ago. The next revolution will change that.
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Humanist thinkers such as Rousseau convinced us that our own feelings and desires were the ultimate source of meaning and that our free will was, therefore, the highest authority of all.
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You need to constantly remind yourself what is the most important thing that is happening in the world - what is the most important thing that is happening in history. The discipline to have this focus is something I gained from meditation.
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Those who refuse to liberalise and globalise are doomed to failure.
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Intelligence is the ability to solve problems, and consciousness is the ability to feel things and have subjective experiences.
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I think the basic thing that happened is we have lost our story. Humans think in stories, and we try to make sense of the world by telling stories.
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In 1989, with the end of the Cold War and the collapse of communism, it seemed that the liberal story had won. The liberal story says that humankind is inevitably marching towards a global society of free markets and democratic politics.
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Science is telling us that the reason people die is not because some god said so or because the laws of nature mandate it. People always die because of technical problems. And every technical problem has, in principle, a technical solution.
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Our bodies and minds evolved and were adapted for hundreds of thousands of years for tasks like climbing a tree and picking apples, or hunting rabbits, or looking for mushrooms in the forest. They were not adapted to the very gruelling work that is involved in field work - ploughing, harvesting, bringing water, digging weeds - things like that.
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I think, in general, medicine in the 21st century will switch from healing the sick to upgrading the healthy... If you find ways to repair the memory damaged by Alzheimer's disease or dementia and so forth, it is very likely that the same methods could be used to upgrade the memory of completely healthy people.
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