ping to 4 major signs of demonic powers: hatred of Christ Jesus the Word (John 1), inversion of reality (evil is good; anti-creation evolution is ‘creation’), pathological lies, and confusion.
If I thought Revelation was literal prophecy, rather than allegory, I might be tempted to see him as the False Prophet.
This guy is sort of the intellectual advisor to Klaus Schwab at the WEF, he’s truly one of the most scary and evil individuals in the world with real influence, his views on AI, population control and other issues are frightening
“If only God were more human, then he’d be more popular”. And so man creates god in his own image, a false one that won’t require us to change what we’re doing. How many of them do we have now?
I’ve read two of Yuval’s books.
I don’t find them scientifically that good. The book “Sapiens: A brief history of humankind” has opinions without any facts put on it.
Let me re-write what I reviewed about it:
1. It only focuses on the Iron age onwards - it completely ignores the previous 7000 years of agricultural history
2. He forgets the core of the book - Sapience. Humanity has abstract concepts and those are no less “real” than physical constructs - at least to humanity. They are also critical to our sense of self.
3. His statements on the transition from hunter-gatherer to agriculture is just stupid. The H-G still practiced rudimentary agriculture and had some cultural practices handed down (shared ethos etc. as seen in the Khoi-San and the purely H-G aborigines); but they did not have specializations nor allow us to think further in abstract thoughts. An H-G has no use for writing, so that area restricts HGs - as seen in octopi who are smart, but have no way to hand down knowledge from generation to generation
4. Then his explanation for why “Europe dominated the world from 1750 to now” is pure Eurocentricism and wrong:
4.1 Europe started innovations due to its geography (no large plains, but broken up areas, causing competition)
4.2. Christianity - Catholicism banned slavery in Europe in the early middle ages, so people had to innovate to manage that loss in productivity - so they developed machines
4.3. Higher learning - again, Christianity with its focus on the studying of texts and then with the monasteries as foundations of learning
Homo Deus is also equally flawed in the sense of being so opinionated he doesn’t bring out the opposite argument.
We are not creatures of pure logic. If we were, then we would not have religion, art, literature, philosophy. Heck we wouldn’t even have much of the sciences as to start with we’d need to imagine.
I much prefer
Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond
The power of babel by John McWhorter (not really anthropoligical, but veering to it
The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber
Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy by Daron Acemoglu
I dont get Jews politically. They seem dominated by the worst sorts of leftists and have since the time of Lenin.
Yet some of my favorite conservative talk show host figures today are Jewish; Savage, Levine, Klavan, Shapiro. etc.
Someone told me it boils down to their chosen branch of religion. Orthodox or other..I don’t know.
I’m sure he can get a boatload of cash from Zuckerberg, Soros, Fink, Bankman-Fried, and political support from Zylensky, Garland, Mayorkas, Blinken, Newland, and Yellen, just to name a few of those who are actively striving to destroy this country.
That guy is queer? Now it makes sense. This is what happens when you take those people seriously. That nut would kill millions if allowed. They hate themselves, and therefore others. There are reasons, good reasons, why this behavior has been discouraged and shunned in society. This guy exemplifies those rules.
I’d prefer an Ebonics version of the Bible. Something like: “...then Homey say, you grab the apple, bitch”
AI is a human product. So humans are going to create their own scriptures and deity , which will be man. Seems like this has been done before.
Next someone will want to rewrite the Constitution.
I’d say *infamous* not *famous*.
But he’s not even really famous. A LOT of people have never heard of him.
Rev 3:9.
I see Harari as a prototype false prophet.