Yuval noah harari homo deus3/31/2024 ![]() ![]() ![]() Much Buddhist practice aims at the dissolution of the ego into a world of flowing and connecting processes. Harari’s first hobby horse is Buddhism: he is an ardent student of its Vipassana version, and his late teacher takes prime position in acknowledgements. With great charm, he has decided to ride two of his favourite hobby horses through the middle of this terrain: think Don Quixote and Sancho Panza trotting towards the Singularity. But in this volume, I am struck by the cosmic levity of Harari’s project. Homo Deus tries to answer that question, with all the pedagogic and encyclopaedic brilliance of its predecessor. “Is there anything more dangerous than dissatisfied and irresponsible gods who don’t know what they want?” was Harari’s closing line. But Sapiens concluded with darker notes on how these mega-stories might direct our new, transformative, information and biological technologies. Our capacity to create giant fictions – markets, laws, companies, religions, ideologies – helped us dominate Earth. Harari’s last book, Sapiens, was a paean to humanity’s powers of collective imagination. More recently, the US law firm BakerHostetler hired an artificially intelligent attorney, IBM Watson’s “Ross”, to handle its bankruptcy cases. Like the five human board members, it gets a vote. IN 2014, a Hong Kong venture capital firm appointed an investment algorithm called VITAL to its board. Michel Vanden Eeckhoudt/Agence Vu/Camera Press One kind of future: exploring inner as easily as outer space? ![]()
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