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Harari's key claim regarding the Agricultural Revolution is that while it promoted population growth for H. sapiens and co-evolving species like wheat and cows, it made the lives of most individuals (and animals) worse than they had been when H. sapiens were mostly hunter-gatherers, since their diet and daily lives became significantly less ...
Writing in The Guardian, David Runciman praised the book's originality and style, although he suggested that it lacked empathy for Homo sapiens. The review points out that "Harari cares about the fate of animals in a human world but he writes about the prospects for Homo sapiens in a data-driven world with a lofty insouciance." He also added ...
For Gates, Harari "has teed up a crucial global conversation about how to take on the problems of the 21st century." [ 6 ] John Thornhill in Financial Times said that "[although] 21 Lessons is lit up by flashes of intellectual adventure and literary verve, it is probably the least illuminating of the three books" written by Harari, and that ...
This raises questions, according to Harari, about what the technology will do not just to the physical world around us, but also to things like psychology and religion. “In certain ways, AI can ...
In his haste to cram complex events into crisp little episodes, the historian passes over inconvenient details.
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In his first book, Harari writes about a "cognitive revolution" that supposedly occurred roughly 70,000 years ago when Homo sapiens supplanted the rival Neanderthals and other species of the genus Homo, developed language skills and structured societies, and ascended as apex predators, aided by the First Agricultural Revolution and accelerated ...
Harari himself raises some criticisms, such as the problem of consciousness, which Dataism is unlikely to illuminate. Humans may also find out that organisms are not algorithms, he suggests. [ 11 ] Dataism implies that all data is public, even personal data, to make the system work as a whole, which is a factor that's already showing resistance ...