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Will AI Kill Democracy? | Yuval Noah Harari

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Tech News, News, Technology

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2024

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Summary

Today on a special in-person recording of Bankless we welcome special guest and best selling author, Yuval Noah Harari. Yuval is best known for his book Sapiens, and today, he is introducing ideas from his next book Nexus.

We go deep down the history rabbit hole and explore the question, if human beings are so wise, why are we so self destructive?

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TIMESTAMPS
00:00:00 Start
00:08:07 The World of Information Networks
00:10:59 Truth vs Information
00:21:28 Tribal Consequences
00:25:05 Naive View Of Information
00:34:27 Populist View Of Information
00:44:54 Inventing New Mechanisms
00:53:33 A Brief History Of Information Networks
00:58:43 The Most Successful Story Ever Told
01:05:13 Story vs Information Network
01:12:29 Story Of Debt Clay Tablets
01:14:53 Entering the Age Of AI
01:20:50 Self Correcting Mechanisms
01:25:35 The Potential Of Crypto

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RESOURCES

Yuval: https://www.ynharari.com/

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0:00.0

Welcome to Bankless, where today we explore the future of humanity.

0:08.0

I think that's what it was.

0:10.0

Yeah, that's always been what Yevall talks about actually.

0:13.0

This is Ryan John Adams.

0:14.0

I'm here in person with my co-host David Hoffman,

0:17.0

and we are here to help you become more bankless.

0:20.0

Guys, we have Yevall, Noah, Harare on the the podcast today and this was a special episode for us because Yevall was like one of the founding his book Sapiens was probably one of the founding documents let's say for the bankless podcast.

0:32.4

Yeah, that's right. I think there's a lot of just

0:35.0

you've all influence across all bankless content I would say 100% and you like for my own

0:40.8

part his his ideas around money being a story being

0:44.1

inter subjective reality kind of got me into crypto in the in the first place he's got a new

0:48.7

book called nexus that just came out his third His third book. And so we read that and

0:53.9

prep for this meeting. It's all about information networks and how that is like a

0:58.0

super set of the story and the document and ledgers. Stories scaled.

1:03.0

I would say it stories scaled with technology is how I would define it.

1:05.9

Stories scaled with technology and I think of course you know we think

1:09.1

cryptocurrency property rights systems like ethereal

1:12.1

ethereal and also Bitcoin and other crypto assets are one of the most interesting stories.

1:16.4

Some of the greatest stories ever.

1:18.0

A new intersubjective reality.

1:20.0

So we got to that at the end, but we really started with his kind of thesis on

1:24.0

information networks and what those actually are the lens of them. He's got an idea

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