#390 – Yuval Noah Harari: Human Nature, Intelligence, Power, and Conspiracies
Lex Fridman Podcast
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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