Maybe Harari himself could be an AI produced by some GAFAM. Who knows? Il giorno dom 8 set 2024 alle ore 11:02 J.C. DE MARTIN < [email protected]> ha scritto:
> “Although flesh and blood, Harari is Silicon Valley’s ideal of what a > chatbot should be. He raids libraries, detects the patterns, and boils all > of history down to bullet points.” > > Buona lettura! > > jc > > > > * Yuval Noah Harari’s Apocalyptic Vision * > > *His warning of AI’s dangers is alarming, but does it help us avoid them? * > By Daniel Immerwahr > > “About 14 billion years ago, matter, energy, time and space came into > being.” So begins Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (2011), by the > Israeli historian Yuval Noah Harari, and so began one of the 21st century’s > most astonishing academic careers. Sapiens has sold more than 25 million > copies in various languages. Since then, Harari has published several other > books, which have also sold millions. He now employs some 15 people to > organize his affairs and promote his ideas. > > He needs them. Harari might be, after the Dalai Lama, the figure of global > renown who is least online. He doesn’t use a smartphone (“I’m trying to > conserve my time and attention > <https://archive.jamesaltucher.com/podcast/yuval-noah-harari/>”). He meditates > for two hours daily > <https://tim.blog/2020/10/30/yuval-noah-harari-transcript/>. And he > spends a month or more each year on retreat, forgoing what one can only > presume are staggering speaking fees to sit in silence. Completing the > picture, Harari is bald, bespectacled, and largely vegan. The word *guru* > is sometimes heard > <https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/aug/15/21-lessons-for-the-21st-century-by-yuval-noah-harari-review> > . > > Harari’s monastic aura gives him a powerful allure in Silicon Valley, > where he is revered. Bill Gates blurbed *Sapiens*. Mark Zuckerberg > promoted it. In 2020, Jeff Bezos testified remotely to Congress in front of > a nearly bare set of bookshelves—a disquieting look for the founder of > Amazon, the planet’s largest bookseller. Sharp-eyed viewers made out, among > the six lonely titles huddling for warmth on the lower-left shelf, two of > Harari’s books > <https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/11/books/celebrity-bookshelves-anthony-fauci-chris-rock.html>. > Harari is to the tech CEO what David Foster Wallace once was to the > Williamsburg hipster. > [...] > > cont: > https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/10/yuval-noah-harari-nexus-book/679572/ >
