Yuval Noah Harari
Historian, Sapiens author
Sayings by Yuval Noah Harari
Humans are now hackable animals.
We are probably one of the last generations of Homo sapiens.
The greatest danger is not that we will be controlled by machines, but that we will become machines.
Fiction is not merely a distraction. It is what allows us to cooperate on a large scale.
Humans control the world because we are the only animals that can cooperate flexibly in large numbers.
The most important thing for us to realize is that we are not individuals, we are dividuals.
Dataism declares that the universe consists of data flows, and the value of any phenomenon or entity is determined by its contribution to data processing.
In a world deluged by irrelevant information, clarity is power.
We are terrible at predicting the future, but we are excellent at creating it.
Humans are not rational. We are story-telling animals.
The real question is not how to stop AI, but how to control it.
We are moving from a world of 'truth' to a world of 'meaning'.
The biggest threat to humanity is not climate change, but meaningless.
Happiness is not a natural state. It's a fleeting moment.
The future is not something we discover, it's something we create.
We are constantly upgrading ourselves, but we don't know what we want to upgrade ourselves into.
The power of algorithms is not just to predict, but to prescribe.
We are moving from a world of 'free will' to a world of 'free algorithms'.
The greatest challenge facing humanity is to figure out what to do with ourselves.
We are getting better at controlling the external world, but worse at controlling our inner world.