"we are now in a new era of wars and unless you reestablish order fast then we are doomed you've all know Harari one of the brightest Minds on planet Earth historian a bestselling author of some of the..."

"deal you V I have three of your books here and these are three books that sent a huge tidal wave a ripple through Society with these books and with all of the work that you're doing now with the lectu..."

"real is is is fictions and and the reason that fictions are so Central in in human history is because we control the planet and rather than the chimpanzees or the elephants or any of the other animals..."

"ourselves and instead uh this tool kind of enslaves us and runs our life and um you know I'm now just back home in Israel there is a terrible War being waged and most wars in history and also now they..."

"successful you know this ability to believe in fictions and I use the word successful you know powerful powerful yes we took over the world the thing that made us powerful could well be the thing that..."

"because you're saying maybe here I don't know I mean we could destroy ourselves I think there is a greater I mean to completely destroy every last single human in the world it is possible given the te..."

"computers or brains with bionic Parts there is there is no essential reason that all the parts of the be of of the entity need to be in the same room at the same time as you said that you know I start..."

"about two things first of all they underestimate the magnitude of the AI Revolution AI is nothing like print it's nothing like uh the industrial revolution of the 19th century it's far far bigger ther..."

"an independent agent in a way that radio and the printing press were not the other thing I find worrying about the comparison with say the Industrial Revolution is that yes in the end in a way it was ..."

"there was a very close link also conceptually between building an industrial society and building an empire and all the leaders the the the initial leaders of the Industrial Revolution built empires n..."

"seems quite trivial to many that the AI revolution has seemed to begun with large language models and when I read sapiens this book I have here language was so Central to what made us powerful as Homo..."

"believe each other if you think about gold coins or paper Bank notes or cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin um they have no value in themselves you cannot eat them or drink them or do anything useful with t..."

"the percentage of people in the world today that really understand the financial system what would be your kind of less than 1% less than 1% okay let's be kind of conservative about it 1% let's say ok..."

"process enough data to really get to really grasp the shape the Dynamics of of the financial system we're already there though you know I think if anyone does understand how the financial system works..."

"it what do you think that is uh I mean I had a guess my guess was why would the UK mhm cut off then you know why would they give themselves a disadvantage exactly when you know there it just means tha..."

"society when the trust that is at the basis of all social interactions is actually no longer trust in humans it's trust in a non-human intelligence that we don't fully understand and that we cannot an..."

"increasingly these humans could be kind of figureheads or or puppets when the real decisions the most consequential decisions are are made by algorithms be partly because the um it will just be too co..."

"discussion of a flee will my my position is you cannot start with the assumption that humans have free will if you start with this assumption then it's uh actually is very it it makes you very incurio..."

"investigate there um I would say no start investigating and you'll probably discover that there are a lot of factors whether it's external factors like cultural traditions and also internal factors li..."

"neurological influences but still there is a certain percentage of my decision that cannot be explained by any of these things then okay call It Free Will and we can discuss it but don't start with th..."

"kind of mystical belief in Free Will are the easiest people to manipulate because they don't think they can be manipulated uh and obviously they can we humans should get used to the idea that we are n..."

"was um as previously human life was about the drama of decision- making and without this we won't have a meaning in life yeah that if you look you know at politics at religion and at culture people to..."

"us and increasingly it's algorithms making all these decisions for us or about us is that possible it's already happening increasingly you know you apply to a bank to get a loan in many places it's no..."

"judicial decisions verdicts like for how many like the judge decided that you committed some crime the sentence whether to send you to two months or eight months or two years in prison is increasingly..."

"non-human intelligences with AIS and Bots and and so forth and this raises a lot of of difficult and and profound questions now part of the problem is that the AIS are built to mimic intimacy that the..."

"newspaper there is a huge incentive for the creators of AIS to create AIS that are able to forge intimate relationships with humans and um this makes us extremely vulnerable to this new type of manipu..."

"humans are so stupid or something that they they they kind of project something onto the AI and fall in love with an AI chatbot the AI is deliberately built created trained to fool us to the same way ..."

"want or need from a relationship is to be in touch with another conscious entity a an intimate relationship is not just about providing my needs then it's exploitative then it's abusive if you're in a..."

"related manipulation there is immortality and our pursuit of it I've sat with people on this podcast who are committing their lives to staying alive forever and there's a three line there between our ..."

"artificial intelligence and these forms of sort of bioengineering might create because it's conceivable that the rich will gain access to these Technologies first yeah and then you know when we think ..."

"development related to that is the problem that I don't think it will be these will be upgrades at all what worries me is that a lot of these things will turn out actually to be downgrades that we aga..."

"inevitable but with trying to kind of bioengineer humans if you go too fast it will be this self-destructive so we can take it more slowly and safely and without being kind of left behind in an arms r..."

"as we know them today I think many jobs maybe most jobs will disappear but new jobs will emerge you know most jobs that people do today didn't exist 200 years ago like this uh yeah like this doing a p..."

"our children and our education institutions as they are today because with what's to come um makes me wonder what what skill would be worth investing you know 10 12 years into a child that I had um no..."

"is over we are now in a new era of wars and potentially of imperialism and we are seeing it all over the world uh with the Russian invasion of Ukraine now is the war in the Middle East uh Venezuela an..."

"and the alternative to order is simply dis order and this is now where we find ourselves do you think there's more Wars on the way yes unless unless we reestablish order there will be more and worse W..."

"when I say that the early 21st century was the most peaceful era in human history it's one of the indications is how uh how low the military budgets all over the world were for most of History Kings a..."

"now in your view reinvest in in rebuilding a global order which is based on universal values and norms and not just on the narrow interests of of specific nation states are you concerned that Trump mi..."

"many of these politicians they present a false neotoy a false binary vision of the world as if you have to choose between patriotism and globalism between being loyal to your nation and being loyal to..."

"behave towards each other if you don't have a system of of global norms and values then very quickly what you have is just global conflict is just Wars I mean some people have this idea they imagine t..."

"to encourage you to not live in is ignorance so with that one might logically deduce that out the window goes your bliss um are you are you happy I think I'm relatively happy at least happier than I w..."

"information is the the food of the mind and if you eat too much of it of the wrong kind you'll get a very thick mind so I uh I try to to keep a very balanced uh information diet which also includes in..."

"keeping it healthy you know so many people spend so much time keeping their body healthy which is very important of course but we need to spend equal amount of attention with with our mind it is as im..."

"days a year and people just collapse I mean I think part of the problem that politicians today face is that um they need to be on 24 hours a day because the news cycle is on 24 hours a day like in pre..."

"attention in social media in streaming services now for many of these corporations they measure their success by user engagement the more people are engaged the more successful we are now user engagem..."

"competing for our attention in our brain we haven't seen anything yet I mean these algorithms they are what like 10 years old in terms of you think about these social media algorithms and the algorith..."

"exciting politicians doing very exciting things and we need more boring politicians more bidens to do less less exciting uh uh uh things and and but the brain is wired to pay attention to excitement a..."

"peace of mind and people if if if humans don't experience peace of mind there is no way that the world as a whole is going to be peaceful in 2023 I launched my very own private Equity Fund called flig..."

"unlikely to be protected if something goes wrong there is no guarantee that the investment objectives will be achieved and as with all private Equity Investments all of the investment capital is at ri..."

"eras in human history the end of the Cold War the fall of the Iron Curtain I don't know of any better time uh but when I look at what is happening right now I don't envy the people who grow up in the ..."

"Mission yal your book sapiens changed the world in many ways it gave us A New Perspective and a new understanding of who we are as as humans where we've come from and with that we have aad map for whe..."

"dead they we can't do anything about their disasters and their misery we can't correct any of the wrongs that happened in ancient times um and they don't care what we say about them you can say anythi..."

"live the world that we know with nation states and corporations and capitalist economics and uh uh religions like Christianity and Hinduism humans created this world and humans can also change it if t..."

"changed we have a closing tradition on this podcast where the last guest leaves a question for the next guest not knowing who they're going to be leaving it for oh the question that's been left for yo..."