Yuval Noah Harari: Human Nature, Intelligence, Power, and Conspiracies | Lex Fridman Podcast

2024 ж. 15 Мам.
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Yuval Noah Harari is a historian, philosopher, and author of Sapiens, Homo Deus, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century, and Unstoppable Us. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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0:00 - Introduction
1:24 - Intelligence
20:19 - Origin of humans
30:41 - Suffering
51:22 - Hitler
1:09:54 - Benjamin Netanyahu
1:28:17 - Peace in Ukraine
1:45:07 - Conspiracy theories
1:59:46 - AI safety
2:14:04 - How to think
2:23:47 - Advice for young people
2:26:28 - Love
2:36:38 - Mortality
2:41:02 - Meaning of life
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  • Here are the timestamps. Please check out our sponsors to support this podcast. Transcript: lexfridman.com/yuval-noah-harari-transcript 0:00 - Introduction & sponsor mentions: - MasterClass: masterclass.com/lex to get 15% off - Eight Sleep: www.eightsleep.com/lex to get special savings - ExpressVPN: expressvpn.com/lexpod to get 3 months free - InsideTracker: insidetracker.com/lex to get 20% off - AG1: drinkag1.com/lex to get 1 month supply of fish oil 1:24 - Intelligence 20:19 - Origin of humans 30:41 - Suffering 51:22 - Hitler 1:09:54 - Benjamin Netanyahu 1:28:17 - Peace in Ukraine 1:45:07 - Conspiracy theories 1:59:46 - AI safety 2:14:04 - How to think 2:23:47 - Advice for young people 2:26:28 - Love 2:36:38 - Mortality 2:41:02 - Meaning of life

    @lexfridman@lexfridman10 ай бұрын
    • I hope you get sponsored by redbull

      @bas.artistry@bas.artistry10 ай бұрын
    • Sickening having one of these fascistic social engineers on, Lex. Do your research on the WEFs nwo agendas mate.

      @benhowell5790@benhowell579010 ай бұрын
    • Well, its funny how hard working Asian American men are castrated and neutered by the western media while at the sametime promote racist Asian fetish. Now, that shows you human nature, this is what happens when you are too nice. I'm really surprised Asian men didn't fight back for so long. They should

      @lppoqql@lppoqql10 ай бұрын
    • Lex, you don't know what means "home" for russians? Go home means go into your borders and stay there!

      @msilence2009@msilence200910 ай бұрын
    • Always edifying conversations with Yuval, Lex. Oчень хорошо!

      @alblee@alblee10 ай бұрын
  • Yuval : 'Cabals don't control everything' Blackrock , Vanguard State Street : 'Yet'. I sometimes, just sometimes get the feeling some interviews are intended as a subtle 'look ..over there' way of dispelling one narrative and inserting another.

    @thagreatadante@thagreatadante10 ай бұрын
    • he spiced a lie with some truth and clearly it's visible which one is which one, guy is just too confident in his lies and his ego is orbiting

      @mstrG@mstrG10 ай бұрын
    • @@tommyp1494 Yeah, very few comments on the actual show content just the same botlike repetitive Lex love.

      @thagreatadante@thagreatadante10 ай бұрын
    • @@tommyp1494Exactly I agree. Lex wont do it. He is smarter than he wants you to believe and his kindness persona seems fake Because Where are the TOUGH questions??? Maybe he is a weirdo as well Lex and likes to go to go deep in shit without actually understanding the consequences of not being careful with your words.

      @prosper4wardubbi915@prosper4wardubbi91510 ай бұрын
    • @@tommyp1494Id be willing to bet they are bots. I can’t remember the number but something like 50% of internet users are bots now. We should trust nothing.

      @fifiadan@fifiadan10 ай бұрын
    • @@tommyp1494​bru i was starting to think i was the only one. the comments straight up have a template and it’s not even subtle. on some chat gpt sht with good grammar and everything

      @carlost2067@carlost20679 ай бұрын
  • The ability to cooperate in unlimited numbers is the super power of humanity.

    @Hexil@Hexil9 ай бұрын
    • Absolutely

      @DanielMatte-jj5wl@DanielMatte-jj5wl5 ай бұрын
    • Wrong. This world belings to GOD!

      @mikl4545@mikl4545Ай бұрын
  • "Our brains love language so much, that we do not need something to be correct. We just need it to be a beautiful story". For me, this summarizes this video's most important aspects.

    @moarminerals@moarminerals7 ай бұрын
    • Sounds like you believe in liars.

      @stupideunuchs6513@stupideunuchs65134 ай бұрын
    • @@stupideunuchs6513 You believe your own lies.

      @aaronanytime8897@aaronanytime88974 ай бұрын
    • Very intelligent reply 👌

      @HeroGeneration.DinoMS@HeroGeneration.DinoMS2 ай бұрын
  • “Our brains love language so much that we don’t need the facts to be correct, we just need it to be a beautiful story.” ~Lex Friedman Music, architecture, aesthetics etc.

    @CamelxRavenNova2@CamelxRavenNova28 ай бұрын
    • Yup, maybe: But not me, I can see. I'll eat with a fork, all you talk? Not me, I will be, .

      @BR-hi6yt@BR-hi6yt7 ай бұрын
    • @@BR-hi6yt ok, that’s a confusing reply 👌🏻

      @CamelxRavenNova2@CamelxRavenNova27 ай бұрын
    • @@CamelxRavenNova2 Maybe a bot or AI ;)

      @Tangerinka410@Tangerinka4107 ай бұрын
    • @@Tangerinka410 your probably right

      @CamelxRavenNova2@CamelxRavenNova27 ай бұрын
    • I realized this about people a few years ago, I have friends that believe farout conspiracy theories because they are more interesting than the boring truth. You can also see it in sales and marketing, I know people that buy beer based on the story printed on the label. For example, a lost family receipe from 1866, small batch, stored in oak casks from the Tuscany region or what ever, people eat it up.

      @djtall3090@djtall30907 ай бұрын
  • I am Jordanian and also a Muslim Arab (insert stories), I began learning about civics and specifically American democracy just a week before the Israeli protests or demonstration, and I came to appreciate all the ideas of the European Enlightenment period, including those of john locke, and the ideas of the social contract, sovreignty of the People, Seperation of Power, and so much more and most relevant to this topic: the importance for checks and balances between the different segments of goverment (i.e. the ability for the judicial governemnt to "check and balance" the executive governemnt). It's sad to learn about what is happening in Israel and I can understand the frustrations of the people who are demonstarting. Yuval has been a long "look up" in my google search history. I read his book Sapiens when it was just days old. Observing Israel and then seeing Yuval speak in public has inspired me and I can appreciate this content, Lex.. And here I am writing a comment knowing I will be accompanied with anxiety caused by my inner "Stan" that will affect my confidence. Any ways hope who stumbles upon this comment appreciate the necessity to learn about civics and governance especially when attempting to understand these laws, policies, and their History.

    @farisalthibani1270@farisalthibani127010 ай бұрын
    • thanks so much for this beautiful comment. support from Israel.

      @deanzilberstein953@deanzilberstein95310 ай бұрын
    • No such thing as American democracy

      @albasdumbledorf5113@albasdumbledorf511310 ай бұрын
    • The childless commies in Israel & dog owners will lose their dictatorial powers if the judiciary becomes democratized.

      @victorblock3421@victorblock342110 ай бұрын
    • @@albasdumbledorf5113 what countries are a better model of democracy, then the constitution and republic of the USA?

      @steveflorida8699@steveflorida869910 ай бұрын
    • After having read the civics of western society, and observing and living near Israel. Do you think the Palestine people would be better served by new Palestine leaders, than the current Palestine leadership? From afar it seems the Palestine leadership is redundant and not progressive with peace reform, compromise, & uplifting the political, economic and social environment.

      @steveflorida8699@steveflorida869910 ай бұрын
  • What I really like is that you bring on peole with completely different outlooks on things, for example having had both Harari and Kennedy in the last few weeks. I despise Harari and what he is trying to accomplish for the WEF. But I could be mistaken about him, my perception could be wrong so I will watch this and maybe change my views. It is absolutley crucial that all people can have a voice and be heard and this channel is so valuable because of that.

    @henrikandersson3286@henrikandersson328610 ай бұрын
    • While I disagree with you I’m going to say thanks for this comment, 99% of the others are just people saying he’s the “antichrist” based upon nothing. It’s rare to find someone open to change his mind and to listen to what the other side has to say

      @Sbinott0@Sbinott010 ай бұрын
    • Love this comment because I've the opposite opinion (distrustful of Kennedy and a positive bias to harari). But I am on the same page about this channel the the entertaining of contrasting ideas.

      @Thomas...191@Thomas...19110 ай бұрын
    • What do you think he's trying to do for the WEF?

      @fafolaw@fafolaw10 ай бұрын
    • @@fafolaw he's on record saying that he wants to drug poor people and lock them in pods with video games because they're useless. Words to that effect. He's a monster

      @happyd9733@happyd973310 ай бұрын
    • @@happyd9733 Source? I'm 99% sure that he never said that, that's ridiculous, I've watch many of his interviews and read his books

      @fafolaw@fafolaw10 ай бұрын
  • OMG the "it goes against the laws of nature" response is pure, simple, unassailable brilliance! Thank you.

    @gregmeissner9960@gregmeissner99608 ай бұрын
    • Homosexuality?

      @chrisa7672@chrisa76725 ай бұрын
    • ​@@chrisa7672but that's obviously a part of nature

      @analog_ape@analog_ape4 ай бұрын
    • Whenever there is dilemma or doubt on any issue whatsoever, I check it out with Nature and there is the answer.

      @constancewalsh3646@constancewalsh36462 ай бұрын
    • @@analog_ape but not a part of the laws of nature lol

      @milire2668@milire266812 күн бұрын
  • Hi, I took some notes with interesting/ novel ideas shared in this episode. I am sharing them below in case someone would like to quickly remind themselves of what was discussed. - Difference between Intelligence vs Consciousness (solving problems vs feeling and suffering) - Plants hold intelligence - Pigs are more intelligent than dogs but convention says dogs have more consciousness - What happens when personal relationships with ai make it conventional for some people to believe that the code has consciousness? (ethical problems surrounding legislation) - People are superior to other creatures because stories make people connected en masse - The most successful story is about money - To decide if a story is real, you have to ask if it can feel (a nation cannot feel but the soldiers who died can feel) - Ability to suffer as a test for consciousness - Danger: anthropomorphization of suffering in AI (eg ai saying “Where have you been! I don’t see anything on your calendar” so jealousy) can hack into our operating system and make us believe that AI suffers - someone can use it to manipulate people - Religions are different than other stories (such as nations) because their rules are not amendable - Are you a liberal? yes if you agree that people should have: - a right to choose their government - a right to choose their destiny (profession, personal life) - a right to choose their spouse - Israel and Palestine: no motivation for a two-state solution on the side of Israel which has grown in power immensely in the last 10 years - The development of high-tech surveillance methods meant that the occupation of Palestine became less costly and less bloody - Harare claims that the system politicians go for now is a three-tier citizenship system: - 1st Jewish Israelis - 2nd Arab citizens of Israel - 3rd Palestinians living in occupied Palestine - peace is always possible but there is a lack of motivation - Conspiracy theories: it is impossible for a small group of people to control world events because real history shows us that big groups of people hold a lot of power, do a lot of planning and things still proceed against the plan - Introspection (acc to Harari one of the better human qualities) is non-verbal and comprehended through experience - Meditation is not relaxing because you cannot predict what stories and memories will come up. Boredom is also tricky because it is connected to feelings of worthlessness. However, the way to peace is through boredom. - The most important skill young people need to learn is the skill to keep learning new things. No one can predict what the world will look like in 10 years. Build your mind as a flexible mind. - If something goes against the law of nature, it doesn’t exist. The scientific framework for condemning homosexuality doesn’t hold up. - Life is feeling things and reacting to them. To understand life you need to observe it in a non-verbal manner. Try to answer “what really is happening when you suffer?”

    @bciosk5642@bciosk564210 ай бұрын
    • Yuval doesn't even know what the term consciousness means. It does not mean emotion (or the ability to feel emotion). Consciousness means what it is like to be (that thing). Even a rock has consciousness.

      @TheeFitnessEnthusiast@TheeFitnessEnthusiast10 ай бұрын
    • ​@@TheeFitnessEnthusiast Consciousness is the ability to experience.

      @Marcus32131@Marcus3213110 ай бұрын
    • @@Marcus32131 some would call this sentience ; in science, consciousness usually means more sth like self-awareness

      @yaneperon6296@yaneperon629610 ай бұрын
    • How much Ritalin/Adderall did you take to do that??

      @NP1066@NP106610 ай бұрын
    • @@TheeFitnessEnthusiast human consciousness is entirely dependent on feelings, any other type of consciousness is purely fictional since we never experienced it so in my opinion his definition works

      @radiance8940@radiance894010 ай бұрын
  • This is actually a mind-torture tactic. To be doing something to your victim while claiming you're not, and trying to make your victim out to be crazy. This is the final move before force comes into play.

    @angryjarhead@angryjarhead9 ай бұрын
    • poor Palestinians

      @AA123TD@AA123TD9 ай бұрын
    • Typical process of the sociopaths

      @christophespoiden1627@christophespoiden16279 ай бұрын
    • Gaslightng

      @theWATRpodcast@theWATRpodcast9 ай бұрын
    • This is the true definition of gaslighting.

      @E_l_l_i_e@E_l_l_i_e9 ай бұрын
    • @@UC0FVA9DdusgF7y2gwveSsng gaslighting is a term that is used very loosely in everyday conversations, often referring to lies told by a spouse or a partner. That's why I said that this is the true meaning of gaslighting.

      @E_l_l_i_e@E_l_l_i_e9 ай бұрын
  • thank you both for this interview. it was such a pleasure watching, feeling and being aware of the things discussed

    @liliyaparafenyuk6633@liliyaparafenyuk66335 ай бұрын
    • " pleasure" in all its all ambivalent " reality' ?😮

      @henrikelanschuetzer4261@henrikelanschuetzer4261Ай бұрын
  • What about asking about his involvement with the WEF and how it is influencing governments to take action on important issues, yet no one has elected them? This would be the #1 question to ask this man.

    @hyperborean2576@hyperborean25768 ай бұрын
    • Yea but that wont happen because Lex Friedman s podcast is about leveraging technology to perpetuate the capitalist order. We are already being enslaved 9-6 pursuing meaningless occupations designed to help the ruling class concentrate wealth in ever fewer hands. Does Lex Friedman ever raise this as an issue?

      @JP-kp9kh@JP-kp9kh2 ай бұрын
    • typical lex d zuking questions.. he should b way more critical

      @milire2668@milire266812 күн бұрын
    • That's what NGOs do?

      @boogiewg5141@boogiewg51416 күн бұрын
  • “The future is not just happening. The future is built by us, by a powerful community, as you here in this room. We have the means to improve the state of the world . . .” -Klaus Schwab. So clearly there’s no conspiracy to see here!

    @MrXatcloud@MrXatcloud9 ай бұрын
    • Be careful, he might accuse you of thinking that a few individuals are the masters of the world, and that you think the Pfizzer shot contains 5G chips.🤪

      @kyledrake9750@kyledrake97509 ай бұрын
    • ​@@kyledrake9750🎉🎉

      @user-bl2lu2nx2u@user-bl2lu2nx2u8 ай бұрын
    • ​@@kyledrake9750They're actually operating (tho maybe not exclusively) at 2.4GHz, what you can easily verify with some older phone via Bluetooth device discovery (with Android 7 or older). Prepare to have your world turned upside down, if you have a courage to do so ;-)

      @vladimirharant3128@vladimirharant31285 ай бұрын
    • @@kyledrake9750 only one person runs BlackRock and another one Vanguard. What do you think theyre doing?

      @humphrex@humphrex4 ай бұрын
  • All the Authoritarian Leaders shared the same skill - 'psychopathy in action', and the ability to say or do anything, without feeling embarrassed or ashamed, and without any kind of ethos or principles, other than the idea that everyone should listen only to them. That is the story they tell, and desperate frightened people lap it up.

    @jayarrington240@jayarrington2409 ай бұрын
    • Yep, the average person is more frightened and less enlightened about the truth than you.

      @christophnissen4532@christophnissen45329 ай бұрын
    • I could've sworn there was a totally and different and more plausible Story told about the 3rd Reich in this Podcast. But maybe i am just didn't get it.

      @christophnissen4532@christophnissen45329 ай бұрын
    • We proles love to elevate psychopathy.

      @gregorysagegreene@gregorysagegreene9 ай бұрын
    • The part where he says that only mainstream ideas are constructive and conspiracy theorists are only spreading hate says it all. How is what he is doing not hatespeach? Because he tells it nice?

      @kims1213@kims12139 ай бұрын
    • 100%

      @terrismith6332@terrismith63329 ай бұрын
  • Yuval is an amazing communicator and thinker. His work in AI and questioning where this is all going is direly needed and I am totally impressed with his take on what is happening in Israel right now. Fascism is indeed on the march and his discussion of all these issues is so thought-provoking and truly brilliant

    @DanaPearsonVastman@DanaPearsonVastmanАй бұрын
  • I can sit all day and listen to YNH talk ❤ I wish Israelis and Palestinians calm down for few minutes and listen to him and realize they only fight over a story, and nothing more.

    @ytb3748@ytb37482 ай бұрын
    • Narratives have ideas, ideas have powers, ideas change people, motivate them!

      @whitesimurgh6363@whitesimurgh63639 күн бұрын
  • I followed Mr. Hararai's presentation when he gives advice on how to think and says what is important for the new generations of people to come. He says that a person must constantly reinvent himself and make changes, I think that is not the way a wise person should go. If you are constantly working changes in yourself and you keep inventing yourself, in fact you always go back to the starting point and keep going around in circles. People need to learn, meditation is also desirable, I also meditate and make notes afterwards, but one thing I want to say is when a person really learns and realizes new things, he does not reinvent himself and must not change, because then he returns to the starting point and rejects the knowledge he has acquired, knowledge must not be erased and reinvented, it must only be built upon and expanded, because no one knows where the limit is our knowledge and we must carefully guard it and not constantly invent ourselves, because in this way they reject the acquired knowledge and fall into the trap that someone else thinks for them and injects them with new knowledge according to their goals and plans. So, to conclude - my people, study as much as possible to be as educated as possible and constantly supplement your knowledge and expand it.

    @alen2009@alen20097 ай бұрын
  • My favorite aspect of the 21st century is the ability to see my enemies in high definition hours at a time.

    @MetricsOfMeaning@MetricsOfMeaning10 ай бұрын
    • frightens me that few peoples in the comment section know who this guy really is.

      @johnmachter40@johnmachter4010 ай бұрын
    • @@johnmachter40right

      @Turner9090@Turner909010 ай бұрын
    • Something I've noticed on any video of Yuval that is odd, in the comments section you always get a huge number of very young accounts, praising Yuval and how amazing he is, almost like someone is running a bot farm on any video he appears in...

      @disposabull@disposabull10 ай бұрын
    • @@disposabull any evidence or are you making this up? I just checked 4 comments (all positive) to either side of OP, and here are the join dates: 2006, 2008, 2019, 2012.

      @jonbbbb@jonbbbb10 ай бұрын
    • @@jonbbbb Go look at the people reply to negative comments, for example johnmachter40 just above, 2021 date. It's never a very long comment.

      @disposabull@disposabull10 ай бұрын
  • "The truth has two big problems: it tends to be complicated and it tends to be painful."

    @Idealist_Paradox@Idealist_Paradox9 ай бұрын
    • This was one of the dumbest things he said.

      @oldhollywoodbriar@oldhollywoodbriar9 ай бұрын
    • ​@@oldhollywoodbriarNot really.

      @aniketshukla3824@aniketshukla38249 ай бұрын
    • ​@@oldhollywoodbriarWhy?

      @jewjew4204@jewjew42049 ай бұрын
    • a C-. It's problematic for a dishonest (or untruthful?) mind.

      @dholl2000@dholl20009 ай бұрын
    • @@jewjew4204 truth is simple, people who describe it as complicated usually do so before discarding it. In a lot of ways, Harari is completely blind to geo politics and culture, this is why truth is complicated for him, it’s because he doesn’t have truth.

      @oldhollywoodbriar@oldhollywoodbriar9 ай бұрын
  • My reaction (from The Netherlands)... Thanks for your all the intervieuws with people with so many different sights of the the world. I helps me to think about things in so many different ways. To try to be open. I often say: "Every day I am learning". And I am!!! I am 68 years old, this learning process is still going on. Thanks to you and so many other thinkers. Always look at both ways. I Wish you well.

    @user-et1pi2qu8q@user-et1pi2qu8q2 ай бұрын
  • One of your all time great podcasts Lex. YNH just seems to be incredibly knowledgeable about every single subject on planet Earth

    @aasimyousaf2455@aasimyousaf24558 ай бұрын
    • I spent time ruminating about the conversation with Yuval Harari.

      @eleanoravinor221@eleanoravinor2217 ай бұрын
    • YNH gave me much food for thought

      @eleanoravinor221@eleanoravinor2217 ай бұрын
    • Knowledge and even intelligence does not necessarily denote wisdom. Intelligence and knowledge drives the impulse towards 'can such or such be accomplished?' whereas knowledge tempered with wisdom tends towards the impulse of 'should such or such be accomplished?'. I hope that you are intelligent enough to comprehend the significant difference! YNH clearly utterly lacks such wisdom!

      @joemendiuk@joemendiuk6 ай бұрын
    • This guy is anti-human filth.

      @graylienz@graylienz3 ай бұрын
  • This man has said some fucked up stuff about people and humanity as a whole. Wonder why Lex didn't ask him about it.

    @VeMK3@VeMK310 ай бұрын
    • Part of the same team.

      @presidentdonaldbump150@presidentdonaldbump15010 ай бұрын
    • @@presidentdonaldbump150 I am truly beginning to believe this as well. I loved his interviews about black holes and physics, Etc, but he sure has had some scumbags on lately

      @saintedpatience9565@saintedpatience95659 ай бұрын
    • You're not the only one who noticed

      @saintedpatience9565@saintedpatience95659 ай бұрын
    • They delete the bad comments. Dont worry people know who he is despite it being memory holed. He will be the new WEF leader. "What will we do with all the useless people, we will drug them and make them play videogames" he is pro authoritarianism

      @jonathanmoynihan3661@jonathanmoynihan36619 ай бұрын
  • The part about boredom being connected to feelings of worthlessness, which in my case will lead to guilt and anger towards myself. WOW ! It felt like balm to hear him say that...even if you intuit it and know it on some level, hearing another person pinpoint and articulate it, is liberating. Compassion, starting with self compassion, listening and conversing with each other to try and understand who we really are, it is moving. Thank you Mr Harari and Mr Fridman for this wonderful conversation.

    @lublack3236@lublack323610 ай бұрын
    • All we need Is a goal like walk 2 miles every day . Or run 10 miles. Or walk 1 mile. Just even 1 tuff but reachable goal helps me 😊

      @gaberoyalll@gaberoyalll10 ай бұрын
    • @@gaberoyalll I think that missed the point @lublack3236 was making. To be bored has 2 components - the one you pointed at - an inability to engage oneself but also a second and depper meaning - an inability to engage another consciousness/person enough to command their attention. One feels worthless because here you are in a world of 8 billion people and nobody seems to be interested in spending their time with you - speaking generally of course - sure if you are a young attractice woman you can hold someones engagement but with the clear understanding that its transactional. Not sure there's a solution to the second challenge other that deep personal work and societal overhaul.

      @Kobe29261@Kobe2926110 ай бұрын
    • 100B have lived and died already... 100T could have been born but were not... You are reading this now... And you have the temerity to be bored? Godspeed fellow homo sapien...

      @Franciscasieri@Franciscasieri10 ай бұрын
    • I don’t want this conversation to end, I’ll be bored when it’s over….

      @mariaduncan6162@mariaduncan616210 ай бұрын
    • Ведущий уставший.

      @udal17@udal179 ай бұрын
  • This was my second auditing of Lex 390. Once was not enough!

    @richardcollier1912@richardcollier19126 ай бұрын
  • Noah loves long interviews? So do I - with him, the genius with heart. Lex Fridman is a rare one as interviewer, with heart. This is the best two hours I've ever spent on KZhead.

    @constancewalsh3646@constancewalsh36462 ай бұрын
  • Thank you Lex for continuing to ask advice for young people from all your guests. I hope to see that tradition continue in future podcast episodes.

    @realbobbyaxel@realbobbyaxel10 ай бұрын
    • I like this too. I also like older people being included. I'm not young, but I'm not dead yet either. ;)

      @babayada@babayada10 ай бұрын
    • ​@@babayadaexactly mate were always learning 👍

      @paulmcduff1930@paulmcduff193010 ай бұрын
    • Bot..

      @TheNickdotDK@TheNickdotDK10 ай бұрын
    • ​@@paulmcduff1930*we're

      @joemama7163@joemama716310 ай бұрын
    • @@joemama7163 who made you the spell checker lol 😂👍

      @paulmcduff1930@paulmcduff193010 ай бұрын
  • I asked chatGPT to convince me I should have ice cream tonight, Yuval Noah Harari style: "As the stars emerge to paint the night sky, and the world's cacophony softly subsides, seize this fleeting moment to delight in ice cream's unpretentious allure. Embrace the symphony of taste and the rush of emotion it brings. Allow it to remind you of the small, remarkable joys that give life its richness and purpose."

    @khaledkord8021@khaledkord80219 ай бұрын
    • Ice cream is a lie. Take the red pill instead.

      @neolord50pro77@neolord50pro779 ай бұрын
  • Harari would be one of the few men who have understood what J Krishnamurti tried to say about meditation, life, observation etc.

    @nivelmamun6378@nivelmamun63787 ай бұрын
  • This interview deserves an award, incredible.

    @kenthanos@kenthanos3 ай бұрын
    • Agree 100%!

      @Doc4Teaching@Doc4Teaching23 күн бұрын
  • You really got the best of Yuval by letting him just talk all the time uninterrupted! We can tell he was truly enjoying the whole conversation. Thank you for this Lex!

    @bb8luke221@bb8luke22110 ай бұрын
    • Snark gets you nowhere but a few comment likes. Let’s hear your gripes and points against what he said that you disagree with. Would love to hear it, truthfully

      @Nick-Salv@Nick-Salv10 ай бұрын
    • So its great that Lex let's Yuval talk uninterrupted but not when it's Netanyahu

      @JFK762@JFK76210 ай бұрын
    • ​@@Nick-Salvhe said plants are intelligent.

      @user-ti5rb1mx5x@user-ti5rb1mx5x10 ай бұрын
    • @@user-ti5rb1mx5x in their own capacity, I’d agree. The right word to use here may not be “intelligence” as we understand our own or even that of an animal’s or insect’s … but there’s something there. He also likened them to an “alien intelligence,” admitting that neither he nor we have quite understood much about plants just yet today. But if you’re curious and can have an open mind, go read a little of Peter Wohlleben or Stefano Mancuso or some Michael Pollan, all of whom have covered plant “intelligence” or whatever you’d like to call it. We’ve only scratched the surface on what we know about plants… they’re not just for smoking, bud!

      @Nick-Salv@Nick-Salv10 ай бұрын
    • @@JFK762that’s how libs roll. Humanist hell holes are brilliant, and sensibility is “hate”. I am not religious, but it is exactly as described in the Bible

      @DrDeuteron@DrDeuteron10 ай бұрын
  • Over the last past months i had the most intense mental shift of consciousness. I was withdrawn and paranoid towards the whole of society and this is completely changing. I want to thank Lex and every other smart and loving person for making this possible.

    @wanka078@wanka07810 ай бұрын
    • Bro that's just mental illness

      @iraniansuperhacker4382@iraniansuperhacker438210 ай бұрын
    • far out, bro. that's great to hear. what was the primary cause of your mental shift? what would you recommend for others?

      @chuckleezodiac24@chuckleezodiac2410 ай бұрын
    • Super! Viva Lex- and you, and us all.

      @lukeasacher@lukeasacher10 ай бұрын
    • I wouldn't count Yuval as one of those loving human beings. He wants to do away with our biological humanity and destroy free will. He thinks he is smarter than God and can create his own new intelligent design, although his model would be devoid of free will and subject to constant surveillance. This guy is full of nonsense.

      @cathyblood6864@cathyblood686410 ай бұрын
    • @@chuckleezodiac24great to hear, congratulations

      @WhizPill@WhizPill10 ай бұрын
  • Absolutely captivated by this profound dialogue between Yuval Noah Harari and Lex Fridman! Yuval's illumination on truth, religion, and the intertwining of humanity, technology, and intelligence is awe-inspiring. Embracing the importance of clarity in these realms is paramount. As he fearlessly navigates the complexities, it becomes evident that fostering intelligence is key to shaping our world. Yuval's courage echoes the sentiments of creating a future where both intelligent beings and feeling organisms coexist harmoniously. Truly inspiring for a young philosopher like me. Looking forward to the rest of this enlightening conversation!

    @paulweiler8967@paulweiler89675 ай бұрын
    • You're not philosopher. You're a useful fool.

      @SVN62534@SVN625343 ай бұрын
  • Yuval Noah Harari stated “We are also exporting a lot of weapons and especially surveillance systems, sometimes to unsavory regimes. Can you please comment more on what specific type of equipment you are talking about, and how it is being used?

    @phillipjarrell5675@phillipjarrell56758 ай бұрын
  • I find my favorite thing is his ability to communicate so clearly. He takes stands and perspectives I don't necessarily agree with, but he seems to do it with a still open mind and very lucid language. Great listen!

    @ODMA2112@ODMA211210 ай бұрын
    • Hitler had the same ability and look what happened with that

      @aspartamekillsyaknow9019@aspartamekillsyaknow90199 ай бұрын
    • @@aspartamekillsyaknow9019 Hitler is a great example of a polar opposite of what I am describing… he was foaming at the mouth and fervently appealing to emotionality of fearful audience. Not still nor open minded lmao.

      @ODMA2112@ODMA21129 ай бұрын
    • Bot

      @brandonburns5365@brandonburns53659 ай бұрын
    • @@aspartamekillsyaknow9019 how come all the negative commenters here like you write the most retarded shit with no explanations or arguments?

      @damianmadian4007@damianmadian40079 ай бұрын
    • Yes, clear communication of a strange reasoning: Sorry, Yuval, your are not right. Life IS a story, a personal one. Your life is no exception and you speak about your story. Human life is so much more than reacting. BTW the human life is very different from that of animals also because we have a personal (hi)stories. When our life is not aligned with the biblical stories, it does not cause their falsity. Do not be afraid of death - the meeting with God your Creator is still there ahead. I would like to talk to you so much in detail and I think I could persuade you about Deity in a single talk. God does not hate anyone.

      @TheMkkrr@TheMkkrr7 ай бұрын
  • This is seriously one of the best episodes I’ve heard so far and so contemporary!

    @W0genius1@W0genius110 ай бұрын
    • I’m unsubbing lex cause he keeps hosting globalist shills and institutional shills. The only good guest he had in the past two months is like two people.

      @mikeslemonade@mikeslemonade10 ай бұрын
    • You realize how evil this dude is, right?

      @tylerweaver8596@tylerweaver859610 ай бұрын
    • @@tylerweaver8596 he finds this episode "one of the best episodes i've heard" , dont take him seriously

      @musashi542@musashi54210 ай бұрын
    • WOgenius is a WEF PR team member and genocidal maniac....

      @ruppert5134@ruppert513410 ай бұрын
    • True

      @KaminerIlya@KaminerIlya10 ай бұрын
  • What a great conversation, and also easy to understand and follow! Others like the one with Joscha Bach have more depth but they torture our poor minds with a million ideas per second, this one was just the right balance.

    @Raulikien@Raulikien8 ай бұрын
    • Not me, I can see. I'll eat with a fork, all you talk? Not me, I can see.

      @BR-hi6yt@BR-hi6yt7 ай бұрын
    • ​@@BR-hi6ytOcean, fish, jump. China. many small time make big time.

      @sourcejosh@sourcejosh7 ай бұрын
    • ​@@sourcejoshwtf r u talking about? You make no sense

      @krishnakandel624@krishnakandel6247 ай бұрын
    • He is so non depth and he likes to torture his fellow minds as a german against the jewish. Can to see that?. He is Hitler himself. What a pity.

      @spirogiannaki@spirogiannaki6 ай бұрын
    • ​@@krishnakandel624It is called Haiku. Very deep, like Ocean. But also chaotic and confusing, from which we get Confucius. No?

      @richardcollier1912@richardcollier19126 ай бұрын
  • Crazy this has been sitting in my Watch Later playlist for months. I randomly decided to watch it and seems very related to what's going on in the world right now. Fantastic discussion, thank you both ❤

    @Shmoji@Shmoji7 ай бұрын
  • At 30:20 he makes a point about how stories can end up killing people, but fails to reflect on how this relates to the stories he and the WEF tell.

    @bluemm2852@bluemm285210 ай бұрын
    • bud, the WEF has no power over you. stop being afraid of ghosts

      @juancsmix@juancsmix8 ай бұрын
  • Lex forgot to ask Hahari about his involvement with WEF but let’s him speak about conspiracy theories. That was the opportunity to challenge this guy by asking him more about these people and about the “conspiracy theory” behind dabos (rich club meetup”

    @danimorales6453@danimorales64539 ай бұрын
    • Lex let him off the hook, which ruined this interview. Opportunity wasted.

      @oooodles3@oooodles39 ай бұрын
    • You know nothing about this man.

      @ageresequituresse@ageresequituresse9 ай бұрын
    • Davos

      @vallivergano239@vallivergano2399 ай бұрын
    • He gave a speech there and that automatically makes him some sort of evil globalist ? Lots of assumptions you have here it seems.

      @rihhard1072@rihhard10729 ай бұрын
    • ​@@ageresequituresse Unfortunately I know more about Harari than I want.

      @eddiesimone3568@eddiesimone35689 ай бұрын
  • Fascinating. I love this discussion. Especially the discussion about the kabal and the analysis of the political situation in Israel.

    @eleanoravinor221@eleanoravinor2217 ай бұрын
  • If he is a historian and ...philosopher, then I am an astronaut even though I have not even been on a plane...

    @dimdra@dimdra7 ай бұрын
    • Can you explain what you mean? Is the problem, that he didn't study philosophy?

      @user-km5ug7js3y@user-km5ug7js3y5 ай бұрын
    • @@user-km5ug7js3y I will mention it briefly. First for its historical deficiency and then for its philosophical deficiency. 1. He states in his book Sapiens: "Why did the Scientific Revolution begin in the middle of the second millennium AD and not two centuries earlier or later? We don't know." (Sapiens, page 253). Answer: Of course we know. Because the right conditions were there. You can't build a rocket if you haven't built an airplane first. Today e.g. we can't suddenly colonize the planet Jupiter. We must first take other smaller steps which are necessary to achieve such a big goal. 2. In the same book, the author who, in the opinion of many critics, is "a revolution and a charming record of the history of humanity in a unique way, lucidity, humor and mood for reflection", after dozens of pages of ideologies, creeds, banal regurgitated dogmas but and many unanswered questions, chooses to highlight, a trivial - in fact for the modern scientific community obsolete - question, about which dozens of new books have been presented, which in general overturn the image we had regarding the phenomenon of homosexuality in ancient Greece. You will search in vain in the pages of this book for even a small reference to the unparalleled achievements of classical antiquity. Not once - and I challenge anyone to disprove me - is the word "philosophy" mentioned. I end with a reference to his cynicism: For Harari, Syria or Iraq are simply geostrategic constructions, without particular cultural and historical significance, national entities that emerged from the conflict of interests, whose peoples were used either by Saddam Hussein either by Asad respectively (Sapiens, page 374). But, on the contrary, in reality both of these countries - and this is impossible for a historical scientist to ignore - are cases of nations with centuries of history, important culture, achievements in many fields, multicultural character, (in the sense of cosmopolitanism and not massification and internationalism). I could write another book listing the author's shortcomings.

      @dimdra@dimdra5 ай бұрын
    • You appear to be a zero.. just below dim.

      @adrianmartin163@adrianmartin1635 ай бұрын
    • Jew.

      @adrianmartin163@adrianmartin1635 ай бұрын
  • I was just trying to read something without my glasses, and the letters were blurry, but I could still read, even though I couldn't really see some of the letters. I wonder if this ability is dependent on this story mechanism that Yuval is talking about. I realize that this scenario is quite different, but I'm thinking, I see these images; they have some similarties to "what I expect" to see; and so I'm able to read, despite lacking sufficient information from the image alone. This "what I expect" seems kind of like Yuval's "story".

    @squebler@squebler9 ай бұрын
  • "Intelligence also tends to be self-destructive", "Intelligence is definitely not something directed towards amplifying happiness", "Intelligence, in any way, its a bit overvalued"👏👏He has such a depth to his perspective on intelligence. Some of the intelligent people I've met surprisingly lack self-awareness and have an overall hollowness to them. Which is so contradictory....

    @gayakola3@gayakola310 ай бұрын
    • there's no positive correlation between intelligence and happiness

      @eloffmusk@eloffmusk10 ай бұрын
    • 'For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.' Ecclesiastes 1:18

      @wildanimus2559@wildanimus255910 ай бұрын
    • Interesting can you say deep about that

      @mathivanan4517@mathivanan451710 ай бұрын
    • Sadly, what he means by intelligence is the general capacity to reason, not a special threshold on the IQ scale. So his statements don’t really support your unfair downplay of people with high intelligence 😢

      @superb444@superb44410 ай бұрын
    • ​@superb444 I would imagine that the happiness to intelligence ratio is like a bell curve. "Ignorance is bliss" after all. I've met some very highly intelligent people who are so completely oblivious to the world around them outside of their own interests that one could argue that they are just as ignorant as someone who has a lower IQ.

      @LuciusVKayne@LuciusVKayne10 ай бұрын
  • Top interview!!! I loved the answers, listening at them many many times. And I loved the questions, the way you put them. Great

    @giuliodisanto4425@giuliodisanto44257 ай бұрын
  • Thank you again for a very interesting talk! One of your best so far.

    @eldeberryhamster@eldeberryhamster4 ай бұрын
  • 4:40 Prof Harari: “to have consciousness without any intelligence is impossible” Me: “…hold my beer”

    @ShadyRonin@ShadyRonin10 ай бұрын
    • 😂😂😂

      @yanelisoto1@yanelisoto110 ай бұрын
    • It even takes massive intelligence to act stupidly, even a damaged brain is marvel of biology

      @GiraffeVortex@GiraffeVortex10 ай бұрын
    • Hysterical. Thank you.

      @gstrummer@gstrummer10 ай бұрын
    • Homer Simpson is appreciative of beer holders and 🍩 donuts. 🍩🍩🍻🍺

      @actisenergy@actisenergy10 ай бұрын
    • lol

      @dave9547@dave954710 ай бұрын
  • " If we can not listen and pay attention to our own breath for more than 5 seconds how do we pretend to understand more complex concepts " 👏👏👏

    @atomoyoga@atomoyoga9 ай бұрын
    • Still the same man cannot breathe while he's talking. He has no idea how to talk and breathe. So whole interview is waste of time.

      @markusjanhunen5112@markusjanhunen51129 ай бұрын
    • Focusing on one's breath can be boring. Complex concepts are more interesting and fun, therefore worth focusing on for hours to enjoy the final understanding and accomplishment.

      @observerone6727@observerone67279 ай бұрын
    • ​@@observerone6727you'll most likely misunderstand if your attention span is terrible.

      @isaacclay218@isaacclay2189 ай бұрын
    • clearly yuval hasn't a clue about the Numinous. He suffers from arrested development, thus the binary human vs machine reduction. Toddler

      @deborahkate1849@deborahkate18499 ай бұрын
    • @@deborahkate1849 he says it's all conspiracy theories but he points the Chinese or Russians as a society who do this dictatorial practices. But he assumes US or Europe does not! 🤦

      @atomoyoga@atomoyoga9 ай бұрын
  • hi @lexfridman . thanks for this incredible conversations you have in this channel. about the danger and emotive manipulation AI could apply to "control" us with "stories" and "fiction": i was thinking about narcisists, which could be a kind of "model" to study what an AI could be or do: no emotions only stories on stories on fictions to achieve a cold (im?)personal achievment. We as human are still far from high general and common level of counsciousness and we actually kind of are unaware of narcisism in society, we are full of narcisists in our daily life and many of them are admired and accepted as strong person... the concept of emotions is becoming less and less important and seen as a mere shadow of some sort of weakness to use ... AI could be the final narcisist? are narcisist in the end really counscious being? Narcisist doesn't suffer...Are we sure that those leaders we follow (good or bad) are really mostly all thruthful and not just narcisists who just (by chance) happen to lead specific ideology?? That brings that thing that IDEAS are using us to spread through the easiest and more functional channels: narcisists...

    @LazarusGordon@LazarusGordon8 ай бұрын
    • 😊😊😊😊 😊

      @htetlwin7899@htetlwin78995 ай бұрын
    • The fact that two-thirds plus of the 'western world' are on anti-depressants which are known to reduce empathy down to zilch in such unfortunate folk does not help. Hence there is a distinct lacking of emotion guidance in our society, spawning psychopaths with narcissistic traits by the hundreds of thousands, millions even? 😔

      @dubchile@dubchile5 ай бұрын
  • Excellent approach Harari has regarding confirmation bias. I have a similar approach and he's right. You learn much more when you approach life and a problem the way he explains. And it's a better approach to discover and learn ways on how to deal with life.

    @magdalenaalgarin3218@magdalenaalgarin32185 ай бұрын
  • Maybe next Lex could talk to Klaus Schwab and let him explain how he's just a very misunderstood guy trying to make the world a better place 🤣

    @pacifica4508@pacifica45089 ай бұрын
    • Typical sheep comment. Didn’t listen to the podcast and jumped to judge without context. GTFOH.

      @cory255@cory2558 ай бұрын
    • Exactly 😂 Why Lex just lets these people on to talk like they’re completely right without pushing back on anything they say, I don’t know, but it’s almost like he is one of them 🤷🏻‍♂️ hopefully one day we see someone with balls who can get these people on and hold a fire under their feet.

      @dlwf11111@dlwf111118 ай бұрын
    • @@dlwf11111 Because Lex is in the club, dude is huge friend of Zuckerberg etc lol

      @Toxickys@Toxickys3 ай бұрын
  • Bravo Lex. You did what so many couldn’t as you try to remove your ego from the interview. May many of your podcaster and celebrities my friends learn from you. This was a beautiful 3 hours of honest chat. Worth anyone’s time

    @guitarraclasica@guitarraclasica10 ай бұрын
    • Nice summary 😊

      @honor9lite1337@honor9lite133710 ай бұрын
    • Love your podcast and how you are having different discussions about subjects. It is so valuable to hear and try to understand all points of view.

      @vesnadokmanovic7416@vesnadokmanovic74169 ай бұрын
  • Ta podkast sem že v drugo poslušala in mislim, da ga bom še. Ne zanam angleško pa si pomagam z googlovim prevodom. Lex zelo resno in odgovorno deluješ. ​Ogled podrobnosti 295 / 5.000 Rezultati prevajanja Rezultat prevoda Thank you both for this wonderful conversation. I really like listening to Yuval because he has something to say, to explain, and I like him a lot because he knows how to say that he doesn't know. I've already listened to this podcast twice and I think I will again. I don't speak English, but I use google translation to help me. Lex, you act very seriously and responsibly

    @netavergan8875@netavergan88757 ай бұрын
  • 🎯 Key Takeaways for quick navigation: 00:00 🌌 *Yuval Noah Harari discusses the idea of being trapped in a world of illusions created by an alien intelligence, emphasizing the importance of understanding what lies behind the illusion.* 02:00 🧠 *Harari points out that intelligence is not necessarily directed towards amplifying happiness and discusses the difference between intelligence and consciousness.* 05:53 👾 *Harari mentions the possibility that intelligent beings may already be on Earth, referring to AI as "alien intelligence" and discusses the challenge of proving consciousness in entities.* 09:41 🤖 *Harari discusses the idea that computers, while not conscious, can form intimate relationships with humans, leading to potential legal implications.* 18:48 💡 *Harari highlights the potential dangers and benefits of new technologies, emphasizing the need for careful deployment and regulation to avoid failed experiments.* 25:28 📖 *Stories have immense power in shaping reality, and their influence grows when many people believe them, as seen with cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin.* 26:57 🌍 *Stories often outlive individuals and can lead to conflicts and even wars when people fight over the narratives, not the physical reality.* 28:54 😔 *Stories and narratives, while influential, lack consciousness and the ability to feel, making feelings a critical aspect of true existence.* 34:23 🤖 *The question of whether AI can suffer becomes essential when considering its ethical treatment and rights similar to humans and animals.* 39:49 🌐 *Truth in human history is often shaped by stories and ideas, even when those stories are fictional, and suffering is a significant component of truth.* 50:57 🌍 *Decisions by individuals, like Vladimir Putin, can have a significant impact on world events, as seen in the war in Ukraine.* 51:24 🧐 *Hitler's rise to power was not inevitable; it was a result of human decisions, and it could have been different with a few changes.* 52:54 🌐 *Germany's path to prosperity did not require the Second World War; it was an unnecessary choice made by the Nazis.* 55:25 📖 *Hitler's storytelling ability and the simplicity of his narrative contributed to his popularity and the appeal of Nazism.* 57:48 🕊️ *Fascists and communists create attractive narratives that emphasize the virtue of their followers and the evil of their enemies, making it difficult for individuals to see the darker side.* 01:16:30 🇮🇱 *The situation in Israel is at a crucial moment, with protests, resistance within armed forces, and high-tech companies considering strikes due to concerns about a messianic dictatorship gaining power.* 01:18:59 🕊️ *The conflict between Israelis and Palestinians has shifted from a national conflict to a religious one, making compromise more difficult.* 01:19:58 💡 *Motivation is a key obstacle to achieving peace in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, with neither side currently showing enough motivation for peace.* 01:21:56 📡 *Technological developments have made it easier for Israel to control the Palestinian population, impacting the conflict dynamics.* 01:24:23 🇿🇦 *While some compare the situation to apartheid, there are differences, particularly in terms of the goals and demands of the parties involved.* 01:29:24 🤝 *Conversations and stories have the potential to bring about positive change, even in complex conflicts, by addressing the underlying narratives.* 01:31:27 🌐 *The effectiveness of conversations in politics depends on where real conversations take place, and the current state of American politics suggests a lack of such spaces for meaningful dialogue.* 01:35:53 🌍 *Stories and narratives can be powerful tools for change, as seen in the success of movements like feminism, which achieved significant social change through dialogue and storytelling.* 01:40:21 ⏳ *History is accelerating, and the future of humanity may involve changes that go beyond Homo sapiens, possibly eliminating the need for human historians.* 02:08:21 🤖 *Yuval Noah Harari emphasizes the importance of developing human consciousness alongside artificial intelligence (AI) to prevent potential catastrophes.* 02:09:48 📚 *AI-generated texts are remarkably coherent and convincing, even if they contain inaccuracies. This phenomenon highlights the power of language and storytelling.* 02:12:46 🌟 *Yuval Noah Harari believes that the deepest and best qualities of humans, such as compassion and introspection, are non-verbal and do not come from words.* 02:16:45 🧘‍♂️ *Yuval Noah Harari emphasizes the importance of meditation and silent introspection in his daily routine for observing thoughts and sensations without attachment.* 02:23:44 💡 *For young people, Harari suggests that the most important skill is the ability to keep learning and adapting throughout their lives, given the uncertain future job market.* 02:32:56 🏳️‍🌈 *The internet has helped diffused communities like LGBTQ people find each other, providing a sense of community for those who historically felt alone.* 02:34:54 💪 *You often need help from others to discover the truth about yourself and achieve your goals, whether in love, activism, or personal growth.* 02:36:52 💀 *All fears, including the fear of death, stem from the deep fear of mortality, but we often face smaller fears as proxies for the larger existential fear.* 02:41:13 🤔 *The meaning of life is not a grand story but rather the continuous experience of feeling things, having sensations, emotions, and reacting to them. To understand life, focus on the nature of suffering and its origins.* 02:44:15 🎙️ *This long-form conversation with Yuval Noah Harari explores the depth of human experiences and ideas, emphasizing the value of extended discussions.* Made with HARPA AI

    @maggiemao@maggiemao4 ай бұрын
  • I was thinking the other day, life is suffering. And after listening to several of Lex's discussions, I noticed a theme of wanting to hang on to some suffering. Like, if we were to eliminate suffering, what would happen? I'm pretty sure we would die very soon after that. Like, most people only go to work because they wish to avoid the suffering of poverty. Why not just stop working? Because then you'll run out of money. Who cares? Why do you need money? To buy food and pay rent. Why do you need those things? To survive. Why do you need to survive? Well, that's sort of like a rewording of "What's the meaning of life?", right? It seems to me, we are simply compelled to survive. Could we just quit trying to survive? Is it directly linked to suffering? Well, I think most people would feel fear if they really considered stopping trying to survive. It's sort of the same thing as suicide. Although I guess the phrase "stopping trying to survive" elicits a more peaceful death than "committing suicide". But anyway, yeah, I think it's not really that you think you need to survive, but you're driven to survive by the fear of the pains that you would experience if you stopped trying to survive. And you've probably experienced some of these pains. The pain of the cold. The pain of sitting on a hard concrete surface. The pain of a sunburn. The pain of hunger. So if you eliminated all of those sufferings, what would you do? I think most people would do something fun, or something they have wanted to do, but didn't because of their fears. Why would you stop and go eat? You might say "so that I can keep having fun"; but then you're really just serving a fear again, to prevent a suffering. The suffering of that fun ending. So it seems like suffering is fundamental to intelligence, if the agent is to survive. But what about a robot that is simply programmed to survive? Maybe it's programmed with some information about things that can lead to its destruction, as well as some algorithms for learning about other things that can lead to its destruction, and other algorithms to survive. Couldn't it be that it does all that activity and feels nothing? No fear or anxiety or pain? And if so, couldn't we remove the pain part of our experience, and only have the intelligent survival? What would such an intelligent survival look like? Would you eat candy? You are intelligent, so you know that candy is going to destroy your teeth, and make you fat; and that would decrease your ability to survive; so you would not want to eat the candy. But the candy is pleasurable; so now you have a problem. How do you reconcile it? Well, it seems that the normal human behavior is to eat the candy; so apparently that is more valued in the human nature program, than survival.

    @squebler@squebler9 ай бұрын
    • Great questions. I think removing the suffering would look a lot more like living with intention and making conscious choices. Perhaps like the choice to grow one's own food instead of slaving away at a desk to work for money, etc. Choosing not to engage in fighting or victimhood, etc. Of course, for all that to really add up to less suffering, it would require more people to be on board with that agenda. It's easy to say these things and much harder to execute when we're in a (completely man-made) economic depression. But hey, it's still worth doing a little part to try and teach future generations, and help ourselves.

      @xGINGERxBREADx@xGINGERxBREADx7 ай бұрын
    • Nobody reads more than 3 raws....

      @Btrutaltruth@Btrutaltruth7 ай бұрын
  • I love to listen to people I don't agree with. I want to hear their arguments and let them challenge my believes. With that said - Yuval is an amazing guest. Thank you very much Lex. Much love to all!

    @Marcio7B@Marcio7B10 ай бұрын
    • why don't you agree with him?

      @elijah_essais@elijah_essais10 ай бұрын
    • U need to do more research on him then because he BSd his way through this. Here’s his mentor Klaus Schwab kzhead.info/sun/lr6oZ7xtkHmAe58/bejne.html

      @dangwood91887@dangwood9188710 ай бұрын
    • Dito, disagree with him on a lot of topics while I still can agree on a few. Communication is key to a healthy society.

      @ME.N.@ME.N.10 ай бұрын
    • bot's responding to bots, marvelous

      @mstrG@mstrG10 ай бұрын
    • @@mstrG who are you talking about?

      @ME.N.@ME.N.10 ай бұрын
  • wow...this particular podcaste is by far the most I was able to follow...loved it!

    @abrahamwondafrash7549@abrahamwondafrash75498 ай бұрын
  • Thanks for this amazing deep conversation with Yuval Noah Harari.

    @_Arindam.@_Arindam.3 ай бұрын
  • Lex stay alive and safe brother for all of our sake. All of your conversations are to be cherished and carefully studied. Your want for understanding, peace and love is something we all need and want. So again please stay safe and keep up the good work.

    @CommonerTobias@CommonerTobias10 ай бұрын
    • Please keep Leaving such wholesome comments friend 🥹 Much love !

      @GDMartin@GDMartin10 ай бұрын
  • I like what Yuval said at the end when advising young people. I re-invented myself so many times, the best new skill is to keep evolving !!

    @marvitmia@marvitmia9 ай бұрын
    • His last invention is being WEF's bitch.

      @S1L3nCe@S1L3nCe9 ай бұрын
    • Eugenics Light™

      @OctavianAsix@OctavianAsix8 ай бұрын
    • A play on words, very interesting interview. Some points spot on. We don’t know what we can’t prove only theories.

      @stevemarks1511@stevemarks15116 ай бұрын
    • Aye, laddie. I turn 70 this year and am still re-inventing meself. The road is the destination.

      @richardcollier1912@richardcollier19126 ай бұрын
    • @@richardcollier1912 i feel sorry for you if you still havent found yourself at 70. what a wasted life old man

      @humphrex@humphrex4 ай бұрын
  • Simply, just BRAVO. Awesome talk, enjoyed every moment of it 👏 I wish I could not just give one, but a thousand of likes The idea that struck me most: - human life is dependent on stories - the main danger of AI is us losing control - we need to keep reinventing ourselves, because the future is more uncertain than ever

    @joanmihali8281@joanmihali82814 ай бұрын
    • You naive fool. How long until your government 'accidentally' loses control over AI? Who are you going to put in jail when the AI starts making decisions on your life? Are you going to report the AI to the authorities? What are the authorities going to do then? Obviously they have 'lost control'. How convenient.

      @SVN62534@SVN625343 ай бұрын
  • Last answer was very impressive for me. "LIfe is not a story. The universe does not function like a story"

    @user-wp8kc4ig8p@user-wp8kc4ig8p2 ай бұрын
  • Yuvals ability to make complex things into bite sized meals for the masses is why he is so succefull. What a great speaker and what a great conversation, thank you lex!

    @lucasv.drunen3384@lucasv.drunen338410 ай бұрын
    • lucas is a WEF PR team member and genocidal maniac....

      @ruppert5134@ruppert513410 ай бұрын
    • Aka talking a lot and saying nothing.

      @wenshu888@wenshu88810 ай бұрын
    • hes not human...sorry to burst your bubble

      @aluke5856@aluke58569 ай бұрын
    • It's bc he is dumb and don't understand most things

      @tatianas5637@tatianas56379 ай бұрын
  • Government is the best story ever. People run behind a cloth (flag). people believe the numbers €¥£$. people believe that the law is moral. People believe that dressing up in uniforms gives them power over fellow humans. All the best

    @papaspeleo@papaspeleo8 ай бұрын
  • Where could I find those mini mic tripods? Can’t find them anywhere

    @rubencastellanos8732@rubencastellanos87327 ай бұрын
  • This was the most fascinating conversation I ve listened to in a long long time . Really changed my perspective on things

    @julienforletta7896@julienforletta789610 ай бұрын
    • Enjoy ze bugs

      @1984Skynet@1984Skynet9 ай бұрын
  • From my own interest being completely ignorant and confused about how the world operates, I wish they addressed the steel man version of conspiracy theory instead of the straw one. E.g. is it telling that they didn't even mention the WEF or whatever Harari's role is within it?

    @williamlp@williamlp10 ай бұрын
    • Maybe start at your own ignorance not someones role somewhere

      @sebastianeckert1947@sebastianeckert19479 ай бұрын
  • “To way to peace is through boredom” ~Lex Fridman it hurts.

    @CamelxRavenNova2@CamelxRavenNova28 ай бұрын
  • Yuval is no better or above anyone else on the planet. He’s his own person, but wants everyone to ultimately live under what he feels is correct. Yet by his own standard we’re all just determined to be a certain way from our nature. So who is he to say anyone else is wrong for believing in something he doesn’t? Leave the rest of the world alone, and create your own space to thrive in if you think we’re all determined to be a certain way. There comes a point where you can’t just blame everyone else for your own issues, when you’re the one who can choose to “free” yourself in the end.

    @JordanX767@JordanX7677 ай бұрын
  • The Don to Micheal "always keep your friends close but keep your enemies closer to you". Keep Yuval real close!

    @marcobao4004@marcobao40049 ай бұрын
    • I don't think Lex realizes that Yuval is an enemy to mankind. Or if Lex does but didn't question Yuval then we should start calling him Lex Luthor.

      @justinigoe2969@justinigoe29699 ай бұрын
    • ​@@justinigoe2969why is Yuval evil/bad? This is my first podcast I saw with him. I read the Homo Sapiens book and the next one of Yuval. And I enjoy it. But I Don't know to much about him in general. Thanks!

      @cristinapichiu8288@cristinapichiu82887 ай бұрын
    • ​@@cristinapichiu8288He's a gnostic and a eugenicist who works for a group that is attempting to create the NWO. Just read his book. Its frightening.

      @MrHorsesongs05@MrHorsesongs056 ай бұрын
  • Yuvals book "Sapiens" rekindled my interests in reading. Glad lex finally got to interview him.

    @isaacsaffran8714@isaacsaffran871410 ай бұрын
    • Exactly the same happened for me. I read Sapiens, then the rest of his books and I haven't stopped reading for 2 years.

      @someperson9052@someperson905210 ай бұрын
    • WEF

      @redred8328@redred832810 ай бұрын
    • Read the counter arguements against sapiens i highly recommend it.

      @W-G@W-G10 ай бұрын
    • @@redred8328 Ad hominem!

      @Angus-MacGyver@Angus-MacGyver10 ай бұрын
    • @@redred8328 -What about it?

      @joshboston2323@joshboston232310 ай бұрын
  • his description of the writing process is almost exactly the way I paint

    @gregmeissner9960@gregmeissner99608 ай бұрын
  • Yuval makes great points and makes a person think. I do believe that he ultimately wants us to live as hunter/gatherers and the patriarchy that it would entail

    @cadamham@cadamham4 ай бұрын
  • When he said people kill each other based on stories. That touched me guys and that is 100% true. It's the fact.

    @engineeringmadeasy@engineeringmadeasy10 ай бұрын
    • Best stop listening to listening to WEF stories then?

      @ShannonRamos@ShannonRamos10 ай бұрын
    • Well congrats on being simple. Very liberal approach to history.

      @neoarmour@neoarmour10 ай бұрын
    • @@neoarmour “Everyone who disagrees with me is simple and I have to let them know I think so whenever I can.”

      @motorhead48067@motorhead4806710 ай бұрын
    • There's always more than one side to a story.

      @fatronjones@fatronjones10 ай бұрын
    • He is planning on killing BILLIONS of people based on his own stories. Probably not the best person to get all self-righteous about death and murder. Except for his murder is justified by his own concept of elitism.

      @TheInterestedObserver@TheInterestedObserver10 ай бұрын
  • Wow. This blew me out of the water. Just recently I deemed the Marc Andreeseen Interview the best one ever. But this is so refreshing and insightful. Even better

    @Telencephelon@Telencephelon10 ай бұрын
    • Oh, I hope you heard yval talking about "useless eaters" and how "we" will be treating them in the near future. Very eye-opening.

      @iamthereforeistrive9392@iamthereforeistrive939210 ай бұрын
  • I've seen a number of edits of Yuval's speaking engagements at the WEF and other events in "conspiratorial" content here on KZhead. With that being my first and only information set on the author, I was ready to categorize him as "one who hates humanity". After watching this interview I was left with a completely opposite conclusion! Ironically Lex and Yuval speak on the topic of conspiracy and the dangers of the false information that now lives in ones mind. I will be consuming more of Yuvals work, but straight from the source himself this time. I truly loved so much of what he expressed in this interview. And as always Lex... Another great episode from my favorite podcast and host!

    @t.j.sortino7844@t.j.sortino78442 ай бұрын
  • Thank you @lexfridman and @yuvalnoahharari for this thoughtful and enlightening discussion- thank you for sharing this information, knowledge, and wisdom - it will help people. Seek the truth.

    @patrickodonnell5808@patrickodonnell58083 ай бұрын
  • Please have Tim Ballard on your show.

    @BBStyles777@BBStyles77710 ай бұрын
    • Please don't 🙏

      @Thomas...191@Thomas...19110 ай бұрын
    • @@Thomas...191 why not?

      @gladjohnson3117@gladjohnson311710 ай бұрын
    • @@gladjohnson3117 because he likes what sick people do to kids

      @supernalbjj@supernalbjj10 ай бұрын
    • Please do.

      @aga5109@aga510910 ай бұрын
    • @@supernalbjj that's why. If you don't like him you get called that. It's like the criticism proof defense of people like Ibrahim x kendi, if he gets criticised; those people are racists. When a criticism or skeptical view of a story or film is met with "you must be a child predator"; I get seriously bored with the stupidity and pathetic self-righteousness.

      @Thomas...191@Thomas...19110 ай бұрын
  • Q. Where do the real conversations take place? A. WEF Forum... an authoritarian regime can still have different voices... the power of stories in peoples' minds maximizing suffering while simultaneously suppressing stories that are counter to WEF agenda. Yuval, in spite of suffering, the caged bird can choose to sing or not...

    @liwi513@liwi51310 ай бұрын
  • Highly recommend Reuven Bar-Levav's book "Thinking in the Shadow of Feelings "

    @SubtleMoments@SubtleMoments8 ай бұрын
  • I love lex Friedman because he loves logic. And because he loves logic, you must and I must now love logic.

    @Dondaldowozo@Dondaldowozo5 ай бұрын
  • I was waiting for this conversation after the Netanjahu piece. Thank you, keep doing what you do. Both of you.

    @ssamout@ssamout10 ай бұрын
    • Why doesn't Yuval go on an interview with Jordan Peterson. Oh wait... Then his ideas would be exposed for the foolishness they are.

      @envirojay@envirojay10 ай бұрын
    • @@envirojay Can you elaborate on what foolish ideas you mean?

      @ThePhil939@ThePhil93910 ай бұрын
    • ​@@ThePhil939He will never elaborate , at best he will throw some incoherent ramblings and curse you that's the internet conversations for you.

      @silotx@silotx10 ай бұрын
    • ⁠@@ThePhil939Yuval is a great thinker and I share his disdain for our current government but on the apartheid question his answers were driven by his left ideology and he seems to say that Israelis arabs have less rights than the jews and it is simply wrong … so while he is passionating to listen to , he failed to be accurate and correct on the only subject I know as good as him …. When i get fined by a policewoman wearing a hijab and our past president was sent to jail by an arabic judge I don’t get how anyone can justify this apartheid word for the state of israel . For judea and samaria ( west bank) it is a disputed place and separation exist because of the war , not because ideology. Many of our previous left center right governments tried peace unsuccessfully

      @prezervezefunk@prezervezefunk10 ай бұрын
    • @@prezervezefunkyour examples are faulty generalisations, just because there are some instances of equality means there is general equality.

      @mellowmoe@mellowmoe10 ай бұрын
  • This show just shifted my afternoon plans

    @nathanielplacide4119@nathanielplacide411910 ай бұрын
    • Do you mind sharing?

      @Sarada.Amaru.999@Sarada.Amaru.99910 ай бұрын
    • @@Sarada.Amaru.999uhhh? This dude was planning on watching a movie or gaming, maybe going for a walk/going to the gym and now instead he’s watching this? What were you expecting?

      @europeanmango6596@europeanmango659610 ай бұрын
    • @@Sarada.Amaru.999never mind. Just saw your channel. I get it now.

      @europeanmango6596@europeanmango659610 ай бұрын
    • @@europeanmango6596 OK...I wish you well.✌

      @Sarada.Amaru.999@Sarada.Amaru.99910 ай бұрын
  • Yes, angels who brings gifts and protection from Allah, and jins who whisper in our hearts and minds, are living with us on earth .

    @Thepeopleofsyria@Thepeopleofsyria2 ай бұрын
  • I really appreciated this talk. I’m sure it would be interesting to talk with Yuval Harari about the influence of money and in particular central bank control on human culture.

    @JJAngleton@JJAngleton2 ай бұрын
  • I am very much looking forward to a conversation between the Dutch philosopher Bernardo Kastrup and Lex Fridman. Wouldn’t that be refreshing… Great talk!

    @leviastrohumdes@leviastrohumdes10 ай бұрын
    • I agree. I've never seen Bernardo being on a podcast in person though. He's always doing the video call thing. I hope he would make an exception for Lex.

      @lievenyperman9363@lievenyperman936310 ай бұрын
    • Same, I just made an episode with him myself. He’s great.

      @oldhollywoodbriar@oldhollywoodbriar9 ай бұрын
  • I love Yuval's response to Lex saying that Yuval doesn't think Hitler is an impressive person: ''Did I say that?'' with that facial expression. So good. Brings me joy. 51:32

    @simpleselfhelp@simpleselfhelp10 ай бұрын
    • Yuval’s technofascist character is not hidden 😅

      @ondrejstefik159@ondrejstefik15910 ай бұрын
    • He reminds me Sheldon Cooper

      @DaniloCarretta@DaniloCarretta10 ай бұрын
    • @@DaniloCarretta he reminds me of Joseph Goebbels

      @saintedpatience9565@saintedpatience95659 ай бұрын
  • Great interview. Thanks Lex !

    @kevinfairweather3661@kevinfairweather36619 ай бұрын
  • Great conversation, I particularly liked the discussion on consciousness and the dangers of charismatic storytellers. Just had a random thought when Yuval was talking about plants intelligence and consciousness… there was a study published in 2011 in Frontiers in Human Neurosciences, Dr Tristan Bekinschtein found patients in vegetative coma states showed signs of brain activity in response to linguistic stimuli. Could you say that these patients still had consciousness, despite not having the means to express it? If so, could that mean that consciousness is an ability to be aware of external forces and could cellular life and plant cells fall in this category? Their awareness is still considered very rudimentary, but cells do sense in a chemical way light, heat, foreign cells, pH condition in liquids and other states of matter that can be good or bad for their survival. Could consciousness exist on a spectrum at very minimal states such as in plant life or even AI? Does the entity have to be biologically based and possess subjective experiences, emotion, and the kind of introspective awareness that humans have, to be deemed having consciousness?

    @christinecalo5645@christinecalo56459 ай бұрын
  • I agree with the premise, Ai can't be presented as a real human. It's one thing that makes sense and doesn't stop progress.

    @PatrickFerryCoach@PatrickFerryCoach10 ай бұрын
  • No way Lex hinted at watching Michael Reeves when talking about taking inspiration for having robots feel pain 😂

    @tuttysinsight@tuttysinsight8 ай бұрын
  • There's a huge irony in Harari being such a convincing storyteller. Does he possess a sufficient nucleus of wisdom equivalent to his current status as a darling of the educated, managerial elites who feel it is incumbent on them to take control of our human destiny? I fear not.

    @iankclark@iankclark10 ай бұрын
    • I agree.

      @iamthereforeistrive9392@iamthereforeistrive939210 ай бұрын
    • It is fascinating. He is so well received by lex’s audience, but come on, his techno utopia is a humanist hell scape. The educated are so foolish.

      @DrDeuteron@DrDeuteron10 ай бұрын
    • he is like Malcolm Gladwell, great storyteller imprecise and sloppy thinker.

      @thomasseptimius@thomasseptimius10 ай бұрын
    • Then help make the wisdom sufficent. What are his gravest errors or incomplete thoughts?

      @SerenityReceiver@SerenityReceiver10 ай бұрын
    • @@SerenityReceiver check his messaging on the "useless eaters",who are ppl whose jobs no longer exist. And his solution for keeping the governments safe from them is to keep them "nutered" via on psychotropics , and immersed reality video games...until the population is naturally reduced. This creature is an ANTI humanist. I am SHOCKED Lex asked NO reveling questions. Makes me wonder he has not been working by himself here...perhaps with the WEF,whose talking head is this childless/no-concern-for-humans humanoid who,in addition to this,considers himself a god-like being. Research him!

      @iamthereforeistrive9392@iamthereforeistrive939210 ай бұрын
  • This was a very thought-provoking video. Yuval should have a Q & A blog or radio show.

    @debrawehrly6900@debrawehrly69009 ай бұрын
  • Harari is very motivated. He’s trying hard to be wise. Unfortunately he’s very young and naïve still. I’m looking forward to seeing if he ever achieves the wisdom he fancies.

    @user-fh8hq5jk3v@user-fh8hq5jk3v5 ай бұрын
  • Yuval is so lost in so many ways that I don't even know where to begin. I feel a lot of compassion for people who are this lost.

    @user-qe4ff8yu1d@user-qe4ff8yu1d5 ай бұрын
  • I've been waiting for this chat literally for years.

    @kostik@kostik10 ай бұрын
  • Lex, this was your opportunity to be a true Hero and eliminate this fascist. You could have laid him down to sleep and save the world.

    @dentpeninde@dentpeninde9 ай бұрын
  • The last generation of human writers will be immortal in a sense, as the models for different styles of writing become a base reference point; 'the Harari model.'

    @NH-ml1kq@NH-ml1kq7 ай бұрын
  • This has aged extremely well. Your journalistic integrity is welcomed.

    @luisfranco6099@luisfranco60996 ай бұрын
  • Lex , i thank you so much when you ask about meditation

    @enjoyblestlifeyoueverhave@enjoyblestlifeyoueverhave10 ай бұрын
  • Have Klaus Schwab on next!!! He has wonderful ideas to help people with his Great Reset. We will own nothing and be happy!

    @rustyshackleford1733@rustyshackleford17339 ай бұрын
    • Oh that Gargoyle that dresses like darth vadar? 😅

      @kezza6921@kezza69219 ай бұрын
    • ​@@kezza6921he dresses like a bond villain lol

      @itiswhatitis1512@itiswhatitis15129 ай бұрын
    • You mean Emperor Palpatine 😂

      @CaptainAmerica-qq8yc@CaptainAmerica-qq8yc9 ай бұрын
    • He probably also has great recipes with bugs for the people

      @Volcano1203@Volcano12039 ай бұрын
    • Own nothing and be happy…been done, doesn’t work

      @tonyhull9427@tonyhull94279 ай бұрын
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