The tragedy of human history for us to learn and heal

We are out of time for the reality man has long known.

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Present moment awareness

No matter what your perception of Yuval Noah Harari, please listen to the interview. The deep dive Yuval does on current reality, human interaction with alien intelligence, the colossal impact of story telling on all our lives, consciousness, introspection and conspiracies, help to grasp the dynamics in play across many sectors. I do not agree with some of Yuval’s perceptions.

LF = Lex Fridman
YH = Yuval Noah Harari

History of Human Nature, Intelligence, Power, and Conspiracies

Lex Fridman interviewed Yuval Noah Harari, historian, philosopher and top consultant to World Economic Forum’s Klaus Schwab.

I highlighted questions relative to this tract of man and present reality. Below is the video and link to the full transcript.

Origin of humans

LF: How did it all start? How did homo sapiens out-compete the others, the other human-like species, the Neanderthals and other homo species?

YH: What really made us successful, what made us rulers of the planet and not the chimps and not the Neanderthals?

YH: “What makes it possible for millions of people who don’t know each other, to cooperate in a way that Neanderthals or chimpanzees couldn’t?”

LF: At which point does a fiction become accepted reality?

“If a story can get millions of people to fight for it, it not only survives, it spreads, it can take over the world.’ Yuval Noah Harari

Fictions of law

From Doreen: How can a fiction of law rule man when fictions of law do not exist? https://dictionary.thelaw.com/fiction-of-law/

Fictions of law rule man through the con in consent of people who comply with governments structured to arbitrarily protect their interests without accountability and without liability.

Intelligence

LF: Does it surprise you how well large language models work? Has it modified your understanding of the nature of intelligence?

Suffering

LF: What is truth exactly?

LF: Can you speak to the mechanism of how humans start to believe ideas?

YH: Why do people believe one story and not another?

LF: How much power do charismatic leaders have to affect the trajectory of history?

Hitler

LF: What ideology, what circumstances enabled the rise of the Third Reich?

LF: What’s the ideological connection between Nazism and communism as embodied by humanism?

YH: What are humans? What is humanity?

Benjamin Netanyahu

YH: What limits the power of government?

LF: What are the biggest obstacles to achieving peace in this part of the world? [Middle East]

Peace in Ukraine

LF: Do you believe in the power of conversation between leaders to sit down as human beings and agree?

YH: The big question about American democracy is, is there a place where real conversations which actually change people’s minds still take place?

Conspiracy theories

LF: What are global cabal theories and why do so many people believe them?

LF: Is there advice you can give of how to be a human being in this world that values truth and reason while watching yourself become part of conspiracy theories?

YH: When you wake up in the morning, the question is, do you want to spend your day spreading hatred or do you want to spend your day trying to make allies and work together?

“I think it is within the power of every individual to make the world a little bit better. You can’t do everything. Don’t try to do everything. Find one thing in your areas of activity, a place where you have some agency, and try to do that, and hope that other people do their bit. And if everybody does their bit, we’ll manage.” Yuval Noah Harari

AI safety

LF: Do you worry about that range of possibilities where artificial intelligence systems in a variety of ways might destroy human civilization?

LF: What are the dangers of more and more of the creative side and idea generation done by AI? Is it that idea generation is so fundamental to the evolution of humanity?

YH: “How do I know that any of this is real?’

How to think

LF: How do you think about difficult problems with the world?

Advice for young people

LF: What advice would you give to young people today in high school and college, how to have a successful life, how to have a successful career?

Mortality

LF: What role does the fear of death play in the human condition?

Meaning of life

YH: The most important question about the reality of life is what is suffering and where is it coming from?

YH: “How do you cause people to believe in an imagined order, such as Christianity, democracy, or capitalism?'“

Full video transcript

https://lexfridman.com/yuval-noah-harari-transcript/

Comment I posted at the above video

Isn't it time to take full responsibility for our individual choices instead of blaming others? This is not about AI alien intelligence. It's about the level of consciousness that programs the AI. The CON in man's 'CONsent' allows ruling entities to make decisions in our absence that become the norm. AI can only advance with consent of man feeding it a rich diet of information through devices approved by ruling entities to advance ultimate control of all resources, wealth and human beings. To influence a more coherent outer reality requires individuals to upgrade their awareness and make better quality choices.

Transform tragedy into transcendence

If it is our collective intelligence that brings a story to life, true and false. We need to create the best story ever told, for our collective intelligence to breathe life into it, save and preserve our species. TY!

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