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

Jan 15, 2021

01:59:48

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Yuval Noah Harari

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Embracing Lifelong Development in a Listening Society

01:24

How AI Can Enhance Communal Connections

01:31

The Authority of the Individual Feelings, Beliefs and Ideas

04:32

Why Is It OK to Trust Human Feelings?

06:02

Introduction

3min

Is the Customern't Always Right?

2min

A Graphic, Novel Version of Sapience

2min

How Do We Really Work?

6min

How to Hack a Human Without Technology and a I

4min

The Kingdom of France in the Twelfth Century Was Not a Totalitarian Regime

3min

What Makes Us Different?

2min

You Don't Need to Tell the Truth About a Nation

4min

The Importance of Language in the Making of a Nation

3min

10.

The Authority of the Individual Feelings, Beliefs and Ideas

5min

11.

Why Is It OK to Trust Human Feelings?

6min

12.

Hacking Human Feelings

2min

13.

Biometrics and Machine Learning - The Big Game Changer

3min

14.

Is Technology Already Underneath the Skin Layer?

4min

15.

We Are Facing a World Built on Feelings

3min

16.

The Problem of Hacking Human Feelings

2min

17.

The Checkmate on Human Agency

4min

18.

The Distopias of Story Telling

5min

19.

Is There a Bottleneck?

3min

20.

How to Find Your One True Love

3min

21.

The World Is Getting More Virtual Overnight

2min

22.

We Can Make More Money if Every Single House in the Town Turns Into an Arabian

5min

23.

Are You Optimizing the Seychic?

2min

24.

I Forgot It, but I Just Open the Fridge, Right?

3min

25.

Why We Shouldn't Be Taxing Conscious Energy

4min

26.

The Earth Is Not at the Centre, Actually, the Sun Is Not

2min

27.

What Is Consciousness?

6min

28.

The Rise of Authoritarianism and National Solidarity

5min

29.

Is Technology a Good Candidate for This?

6min

30.

The Challenge of a Central Point of Capture

6min

31.

The New Caste Symmetries in How Much It Costs to Overtake or Win Over an Opponent

3min

32.

How to Take Over a Foreign Country

3min

33.

Are Democracies Possible in the Physics of the 20th Century?

3min

34.

The Goal of Democracy and Information Technology

3min

Yuval Noah Harari is one of the rare historians who can give us a two-million-year perspective on today’s headlines. In this wide-ranging conversation, Yuval explains how technology and democracy have evolved together over the course of human history, from paleolithic tribes to city states to kingdoms to nation states. So where do we go from here? “In almost all the conversations I have,” Yuval says, “we get stuck in dystopia and we never explore the no less problematic questions of what happens when we avoid dystopia.” We push beyond dystopia and consider the nearly unimaginable alternatives in this special episode of Your Undivided Attention.

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