I think it really was a very big shock, because people had the feeling that we are living in a more peaceful era. There are still wars in the world, but more peaceful than any previous era. If you want to really see peace in action, don't look in poems, look in state budgets. To ukraine or then to poland, you will see military budgets all over the world sky rocket. You see less possibility for international co operation on things like climate change and regulating ai. I hope that the positive results of this war, on the big scale, would be, on the one hand, that we will see a green manhattan project,. which is what fue
Sam Harris speaks with Yuval Noah Harari about the wider implications of Russia’s war of conquest in Ukraine. They discuss different forms of war, Putin’s miscalculation regarding the internal divisions of America and the EU, the problem of misinformation, international norms of behavior, the role of China, the civilizational importance of trust, globalization and de-globalization, existential risk, the role of India, Ukrainian leadership, the danger of nuclear war, regime change in Russia, and other topics.
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