#390 – Yuval Noah Harari: Human Nature, Intelligence, Power, and Conspiracies
Lex Fridman Podcast
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Cooperation, powered by fiction, is the human secret of success
Human success is attributed to collective ability and the capacity to cooperate in large numbers, unlike chimpanzees and Neanderthals./nThe formation of large networks and the ability to operate in unlimited numbers contributed to human success./nThe global trade network has allowed for cooperation on an unprecedented scale, with billions of people involved./nHuman cooperation is often based on fiction and storytelling, which unites strangers and facilitates large-scale cooperation./nReligion, politics, and economics are examples of human cooperation based on fictional stories./nMoney, despite being a figment of our imagination, is a highly successful story that nearly everyone believes in.
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