#390 – Yuval Noah Harari: Human Nature, Intelligence, Power, and Conspiracies
Lex Fridman Podcast
Lex Fridman
4.7 • 13K Ratings
🗓️ 17 July 2023
⏱️ 172 minutes
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OUTLINE:
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(00:00) - Introduction
(08:36) - Intelligence
(27:31) - Origin of humans
(37:53) - Suffering
(58:35) - Hitler
(1:17:07) - Benjamin Netanyahu
(1:35:30) - Peace in Ukraine
(1:52:20) - Conspiracy theories
(2:06:59) - AI safety
(2:21:16) - How to think
(2:31:00) - Advice for young people
(2:33:41) - Love
(2:43:50) - Mortality
(2:48:14) - Meaning of life
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | The following is a conversation we have all know a harari, a historian, philosopher, and author of several highly acclaimed, highly influential books, including Sapiens, |
| 0:10.5 | Homo Deus, and 21 lessons for the 21st century. |
| 0:14.4 | He is also an outspoken critic of Benjamin Netanyahu, and the current right-wing government in Israel. |
| 0:22.2 | So while much of this conversation is about the history and future of human civilization, |
| 0:26.8 | we also discuss the political turmoil of present-day Israel, |
| 0:30.8 | providing a different perspective from that of my recent conversation with Benjamin Netanyahu. |
| 0:38.0 | And now a quick few second mention of each sponsor. |
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| 1:05.5 | And now, onto the full ad reads, never any ads in the middle. I try to make this interesting, |
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| 1:14.6 | Maybe you will too. |
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| 1:28.3 | in their respective disciplines. I'm recording this in a hotel somewhere in the world, |
| 1:33.2 | and there's an excited kid running down the hall of the hotel, which reminds me how fun the early days, |
| 1:42.7 | the early years of learning are. How much the mind kind of soaks up all the amazing information out there. |
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