Inventing Society with Yuval Noah Harari

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🗓️ 15 November 2022

⏱️ 43 minutes

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How did humans come to create society? On this episode, Neil deGrasse Tyson and Yuval Noah Harari, historian and author of “Sapiens” & “Unstoppable Us,” discuss our species’ ability to cooperate, the role of artificial intelligence, and more.

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0:00.0	Thanks for joining us on this episode of StarTalk. Today, I've got my one-on-one conversation with
0:06.0	historian Yuval Noah Harare. You know him from his widely read books, Homo Deus, 21 lessons for
0:14.8	the 21st century and other books. In this conversation, it ranges widely. We talk about AI and what
0:23.6	role it has played and will play. We talk about what glue holds together societal institutions,
0:31.1	not only of government but of the financial system, how stories that we tell each other,
0:37.5	or what we just have to believe in order for any of this to work in the first place, just how
0:43.0	tentative and how balanced on a pinhead civilization is. Well, this guy is an expert in it all. We don't
0:51.5	leave any stones unturned in this episode of StarTalk. Welcome to StarTalk. Your place in the universe
1:01.6	where science and pop culture collide. StarTalk begins right now. This is StarTalk. I'm your host
1:12.0	Neil deGrasse Tyson, your personal astrophysicist. And today, we're featuring a conversation. We do
1:18.8	this every now and then when the when the guest is so accomplished and has so much to say and
1:26.7	into such interesting subject matter that we devote the entire episode to just a one-on-one
1:33.5	conversation. And today, that's going to be with Professor Yuval Noah Harare and he is a professor
1:40.3	of history at Hebrew University of Jerusalem. And you may know him as the author of some hugely
1:47.4	best-selling books, Sapiens, A Brief History of Mankind, Homo Deus, A Brief History of Tomorrow,
1:54.7	21 lessons for the 21st century, and just recently a new book called Unstoppable Us,
2:02.3	How Humans Took Over the World. That's a kid's book. Oh my god, illustrated kid's book for tweens,
2:10.2	age 8 to 12. Looking forward to that. Anyway, Yuval, welcome to StarTalk.
2:16.9	Thank you. It's good to be here. Yeah, yeah. So what made you write a children's book?
2:22.7	You fed up with adults? You said, let me get to the next generation because I'm giving up on
2:29.7	their adults. Now it's kind of broadening the horizons. And basically, kids want to understand who
2:38.9	they are. And it's a story and I think that who we are is shaped to a large extent by history.
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