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#201 — A Conversation with Yuval Noah Harari

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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Isn't China Already Pushing Pretty Far in This Direction?

The author says surveillance technology has a utopian and ustopian side. One of his favorite scenarios is simply that authority shifting from humans to algorithms. He thinks the chinese communist party could be taken over by an algoritm, which would make decisions about lower ranks in the party. "It's already too late to reverse it," he writes....

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