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Two Million Years in Two Hours: A Conversation with Yuval Noah Harari

Your Undivided Attention

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The Checkmate on Human Agency

i think what we've seen is a 20 year trajectory of technology. Yet we kept assuming it was going to be 20, 30 years out, tha technology would take over human agency. But by completely high jacking our lowest instincts and the information all of us get,  it's really taken over the way that, frankly, all human history has been driven by machines. And if i have no morals, the least ethical actor wins. The one that is most willing to use a eye to just find what tends to get the most clicks for most works. It will succeed at creating the maximum fantasy land, the max mum detachment from reality which will actually out compete the regular stories that we

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