Israeli - Historian | February 24, 1976 -
If you take 10,000 chimpanzees and cram them together into Wembley Stadium or the Houses of Parliament, you will get chaos. But if you take 10,000 people who have never met before, they can co-operate and create amazing things.
Yuval Noah Harari
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I'm not a very glamorous person. I like to just sit alone in a room and read a book or meditate.
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We are probably one of the last generations of Homo sapiens.
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The most dangerous thing about terrorism is the over-reaction to it.
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There is no limit to how much health you can provide people.
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If we are allowed to do experiments on monkeys because we are superior to them in a certain way, then someone who is superior to me is allowed to do experiments on me.
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Since the beginning of the computer age, there has been immense development in computer intelligence but exactly zero development in computer consciousness.
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Dollar bills have absolutely no value except in our collective imagination, but everybody believes in the dollar bill.
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We can suspend disbelief about Harry Potter, and we do the same thing with God, and we do the same thing with human rights, and we do the same thing with money.
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I titled the book 'Homo Deus' because we really are becoming gods in the most literal sense possible. We are acquiring abilities that have always been thought to be divine abilities - in particular, the ability to create life. And we can do with that whatever we want.
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In order to survive in a very small tribe, you needed to know how to do lots of things for yourself: how to make your tools, how to get food, and how to make your clothes - things most of us today don't need to know. The only thing I need to survive is to know history.
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Just as divine authority was legitimised by religious mythologies and human authority was legitimised by humanist ideologies, so high-tech gurus and Silicon Valley prophets are creating a new universal narrative that legitimises the authority of algorithms and Big Data.
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