Yuval Harari Returns

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

Armchair Umbrella

Tv & Film, Music, Comedy

4.6 • 68.3K Ratings

🗓️ 5 November 2020

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Yuval Harari (Sapiens, Homo Deus, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century) is a historian who lectures at the Department of History, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, specializing in world history. Yuval joins the Armchair Expert again to discuss the positive and negative sides of biometric surveillance and the importance of trusting other scientific institutions. Yuval explains the value of understanding how we got where we are today, that revolutions need to be gradual, and how disruptive technologies don't obey borders. The two discuss how extreme views are much better for grabbing human attention, how algorithms are figuring out how to hack humans, and the problems with believing in free will without considering external manipulation. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Welcome, welcome, welcome to armchair expert experts on expert. I'm Yval Harare.
0:06.0	You wish.
0:08.0	I'm joined by Nome Chomsky.
0:11.0	I wish.
0:12.0	Hi, Nome. Hi, I wish. I know.
0:13.0	Hi. I'm Dan Shepard and of course you're Maximus Mouseimus.
0:17.1	That makes me think of the photo we took in our Halloween garb.
0:20.3	I mean that was fun.
0:22.1	Your hair was very tall. Thank you. Your spider web was very
0:27.2	spooky. Yeah, can I tell you a secret? Yeah. So when I arrived I was just wearing that black dress and a spider headband.
0:37.3	I didn't look like a spider and I was embarrassed.
0:41.1	So what do you do? How did you course correct?
0:43.4	I walked through the house and our friend Laura had the idea of putting that like cotton
0:48.9	that stretches. It's like a Halloween decor. Sure, and taking that and putting that on myself.
0:54.6	And I was like, oh, great idea.
0:56.5	So we're walking around the house looking for that.
0:58.2	And when we did, we found two table runners that were spider web.
1:03.6	Oh my goodness, wow, this was a real improv.
1:06.6	It was.
1:07.3	And I mean, the idea of me going through the whole Halloween night
1:11.0	just in my black dress dress that would have been so
1:13.0	embarrassed well you would have found yourself in the position I'm generally in yeah and
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