Stupidity: A powerful force in human history
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- Опубликовано: 27 июн 2024
- Are we in the midst of World War III? What's the role of fiction in human evolution? Why do we tend to overconsume food?
Big or small, every detail in our behavior can be explained by looking at the past, from dietary choices to how we've used stories to advance. But if progress is narrative-driven, what comes next?
In Yuval's extended Brief But Spectacular take (@YuvalNoahHarari) he speaks on humanity's superpower, the paradox of wisdom and the relationship between government and war.
00:00 Intro
00:26 Common behaviors explained
02:05 Writing for children
03:44 Humanity's superpower
06:55 The paradox of wisdom
08:00 Artificial intelligence
09:37 World War III
(This episode was filmed in March 2024)
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“There’s simply no polite way to tell people they’ve dedicated their lives to an illusion.” ~ RIP Daniel Dennett
You have to wait til they've stopped watching "Dancing With The Dickheads" first....
Yes, and this incudes the many illusions Dennett held.
Yep religion is the biggest dupe in history, full of myth and hypocrisy.
Yes.Karl Marx..
@@Archeidos-Arcana such as?
Please dear God stop putting marimba background music in these videos.
What marimba music? Most of the music were strings, and piano, with a tiny bit of marimba, it wasn't even prominent compared to the strings.
Somewhat percussive. Annoying.
My thought, too. A plague on every YT video with background "music" diminishing the information.
sounds a bit like the early Age of Empires music sometimes 😁😜
Powerful and critical ideas, trivialised by infantile backing music. Did the producer learn the art in a kindergarten?
Wisdom is the product of your Heart, while knowledge is the product of your mind. Wisdom is incapable of producing destructive outcomes such as nuclear weapons and devisive corporations. A Heart only knows humanity (unity) while a mind only knows individualism (separation). Humanity needs way less mind (knowledge) and way more Heart (Wisdom).
No teleprompter (probably), possibly even no notes or iPad - like an excellent jazz musician, the man is giving us vastly valuable pearls of practical knowledge and forward vision. Humanity would really benefit from taking this guy seriously and really listening to him.
Whom is him 😮?
Not clear 😕
Can't find the speakers name .
Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah.
@@kimsherlock8969 Yuval Harari -it’s on the video, but flashes much too quickly - bad video production/editing
@@user-rl2vl2sd9n somalch defleos Atavi simde? Acqavi?
He is the one producing all the BS within his WEF 😮 I ll never trust this intelligent guy never 👿
Good people know that people are stupid and self-destructive, and are profoundly disgusted by that, but do not capitalize on that vulnerability or put what they know about human weakness in the hands of those who will capitalize on human weakness for payment.
'Stupidity; a powerful force in human history.'
Where do I buy the t-shirt ?
In.
@@SteveeeGeeeBBS you are correct
I saw a bumper sticker the other day that said, "Don't believe everything you think". You need that one, too.
From my African highveld I was just contemplating the sheer incomprehensible stupidity of humanity. Neither foresight nor insight. Blind in fact.
If you ask a Chinese, Korean, or Japanese person when World War Two began, their lived history of that war begins with the 7 July 1937 incident at the Marco Polo bridge. Or even earlier.
Why the distracting music? The producer’s stupidity?
Absolutely!
lol
maybe your focus was on something else?
excellent and thought provoking; the background music is wholy unnecessary
YES! Humph! Rhubarb!Rhubard! I demand we have the end of the world with more DECORUM!!!! "Ponsomby, get my hansome cab, now!!!!"
This message brought you to by the WEF.
back to your cave of ignorance and disinformation.
How sadly you miss the point🤔
How sadly you can not see a monster right in front of you. Good luck because with intuition like you have you are going to need it.
@@merlotpetrus1 WEF is the monster!
🔥AMAZING🔥 HOW MANY OF THE COMMENTS DON'T REALIZE, "THIS GUY IS THE MONSTER" UNDER THE BED ! Y.N.H. IS COMING OUT FROM UNDER YOUR BED, & "HE WILL DEVOUR YOU" !!!
A propos : Who told the story that youtube videos need background music ? Without the annoying music we wouldn't need the subtitles. Best example for Harari's point.
Agreed.
I am reminded of the opening of Jim Henson's "The Storyteller"
"When people shared their past through stories, explained their present through stories, foretold the future through stories...the best place by the fire was kept for....the storyteller!"
Hey, some of us still live under the African savanna. Maybe you’ll be more sympathetic when judging us
A sharp intelect is not an indication of wisdom.
Só very completely true. Nor of humanity
and you demonstrate neither.
In this case, it is an indication of acute malice.
@@thecount1001 Why? Go ahead and prove your point. Go ahead and prove it.
💯
This man makes me so depressed... he's spitting facts that control my life when I have no control over them.
What it means to be human, obviously my take, is to use our power for the wellbeing of ALL.
So true!🙏🏾
There is a difference in what we should be and what we are.
@@pietervanderveld3096 What we are is a choice.
You are a voice among billions. I hear the logic. I feel good because finally, I hear the voice of reason. I dispair because I know that a reasonable voice is no longer popular. We are doomed through our perpetual inability to agree about the correct route. God help us all.
My reply to him:
"Stop repeating this stupid narrative. The 'gorging gene' theory is fundamentally flawed in many ways.
1. Food intake is limited by the capacity of the digestive system. Basically, sapiens could not gorge themselves.
2. Unlike the domesticated fruits bought from markets, fruits in the wild are not as refined and sweet.
3. Storage method at time also limited the duration of food preservation. Thus sapiens are willing to share, i.e., to store food in others’ bellies.
We are very willing to share our land and food with sapiens in Palestine, would you?"
God is fictitious.
@@jaymogamy thank god you found out that!
Thanks from Brazil!
Thank you Novak! You keep me hopeful that some will listen! 🙏🙏🙏 In addition, you put me back on track to my meditation practice!!!
"... we open the refrigerator and there's this huge chocolate cake, and we can wait." How to tell us that you've never had roommates, w/o saying that you never had roommates.
I was listening to 21 lessons for the 21st century, when the short for this video popped up as a notification. So here I am, a new subscriber of this channel thanks to Yuval... #ThinkBetter💡
Build back better, ha ha , yeah right. I am starting to lose all hope for stupid mankind believing this mediocre small man. He is also hackable.
Well Said
Stupidity and arrogance dance together to convince us their tune is "right".
"All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence and then success is sure" Mark Twain
Comment of the week
You give us a lot to think about!
be here now do no harm help others be still close eyes listen to your breathing.
I hope he gave a better presentation at the club of Claus Schwab
I bought “Unstoppable Us” because of his video on Brief But Spectacular. The book is absolutely marvelous. I cannot recommend it enough.
Thank you! Just added to my library queue.
I didn’t find any citation in his book Sapiens to support his scientific claims. My reply to him:
“Stop repeating this stupid narrative. The 'gorging gene' theory is fundamentally flawed in many ways.
1. Food intake is limited by the digestive system's capacity. Basically, sapiens could not gorge themselves.
2. Unlike the domesticated fruits bought from markets, fruits in the wild are not as refined and sweet.
3. Storage method at time also limited the duration of food preservation. Thus sapiens are willing to share, i.e., to store food in others’ bellies.
We are very willing to share our land and food with sapiens in Palestine, would you?”
I think that there is a problem with that. Belief systems based on stories rather than logic is source of divergence is supertribes. Is climbing down the tree beneficial today as method?
What about Iraq war in 2000s? The gulf wars, the houthis, the wars in Africa? Do you even take into consideration history and political activities going around in places other Europe and the North America?
he said most peaceful era . not an absolute peaceful era.. there is no time that is absolute peaceful .. when nations were not created as it is today and only kingdoms were there, there was constant invasions for resources. when nation were created and global rules were establisted, different UN bodies were created. For the 1st time in the history of humanity global human rights were written. and certain level of healthcare, human rights and democracy were enforced. before that you can can be killed if you belong to cretain group of people in certain area. for example black people in america, red indians in america, Australia, British in India can kill anyone without any consequences. And World War I, II, Cold war ect in just 100 years. definitely not the peaceful time. He is talking about 8.1 Billion humans and on a time scale of human civilization.
A series of evolutionary just-so stories.
תודה רבה על התרגום המובנה. הנושאים שעליו הוא מדבר נטחנו על ידו עד דק..
אדם במעמדו חבל שממחזר נושאים ללא הרף
Millions of ants, can work together without the need for myths!
Ants are not cognitive beings.
They respond solely to chemical cues in their environment in order to cooperate. There is no such thing as an innovative, aspirational, rebellious, or deviant ant. Therefore, there is a significant difference between narrative driven human cooperation and evolutionary programmed action by ants.
Humans can cooperate in large numbers because narratives effectively transit and translate abstract ideas, concepts, and perspectives across vast distances, languages, cultures, and time.
Human cognition ability is the unique aspect of the human evolution which can never be superseded by the power of artificial intelligence.Though artificial intelligence can create ideas but still fell short of human curiosity.
Judging other people for personal behavior that do not affect others is also stupid.
That's right. It's secularism. Spot on.
The real problem I see with technological breakthroughs, like AI, is that it is subject to abuse, and can have serious consequences if used against an enemy; or even if it is hacker that misuses it.
Extremely smart. Like all his books.
I love this "Brief but Spectacular Moment" series. And, after watching many interviews with Yuval, I'm so happy that they just let him talk (as they always do for this series). So many interviewers are woefully unprepared for Yuval... his insights seem so simple but go so deep... they are mind blowing... unless you've already had your mind blown by reading his books ("Sapiens" is still my Bible).
He is talking absolute nonsense put together from partial information that he heard or read once somewhere, blown up with a huge doze of narcissism.
@@Wilson84KS Who hurt you? Are you ok?
I always thought that psychologists were the modern shamans. But in fact they are lawyers?
Psychologists, lawyers & economists as well, IMO.
I guess it's actually CEOs
Until rigid empiricism and materialism is done away with, no they are not shamans. They are people who have some limited conceptual knowledge, but can never fully integrate it holistically.
“History is, indeed, little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.” - Edward Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
As for "AI" *machine learning), it still operates within boundaries defined by humans, which may be more frightening than the Cassandra YAWPs repeated here.
Food for the! Thanks!!
The human spirit will not submit to control
This is what superhuman (A) intelligence will say.
It's not stupidity...it's FEAR. Fear of OUR EMOTIONAL SELVES. Our species' task right now--we are screaming at ourselves to do this--is to master our emotions--NOT by repressing, denying or ignoring them, or enslaving them (a Master/Slave relationship), but by mastering them as an artist masters their medium, or as an athlete masters their sport. Emotions drive our thoughts, not the other way around. But that's psychology, and it's not fashionable right now, is it. It's all about The Brain, and neurology, and chemicals and electrical signals. Except that those are only the FOOTPRINTS of SOMETHING ELSE.
I push back a little on your take on AI. It’s not completely apart from human intelligence. AI is yet to tell us something outside of our collective intelligence. It’s just better at connecting the dots because it’s faster at that.
That’s an interesting take on the subject of AI ,but given how we use the technology we have at our disposal now I don’t think we will use AI to benefit humanity.
Some amazing things.
1) The amazing number of people in comments who only recieve from this, the quality of the background music. Totally brain washed clean.
2) The number of commenters who miss the most important point entirely, eg that EVERYTHING YOU BELIEVE is just a story someone made up to get you to co-operate with your group.
3) Item 2 is not NECESSARILY bad, in fact is only bad when it is bad. People forget what is clearly true (boiling water can hurt you) versus what is made up (religions, rascism, money, tribes/nationalities, etc).
🔝🔝🔝 educational talk
Eggcellent. I am deeply aware of my stupidity . . . and the stupidity of others. Thank you. More folks need to wake up to the new reality.
What a thinker!
I heartily agree that the belief in fictions is a major motivator of human behavior, both individually and collectively. However, we also believe and are motivated by science and empirical realities (at least many of us are.) So, while fictions are real and highly influential, so are facts (at least for many of us.) Science and the Humanities, Nature and Culture, Facts and Fictions, are the Yin-Yang of history and our present situation. Harari is half right in other words, in my opinion. Caveats aside, I'm a big fan.
Science is a fiction too and works as a religion. It is called scientism. The core belief is that humans can solve everything with reason, through science. Will not happen.
We can't fix things on a global level, not even on a national level either, really. As a mass we need a collapse every so often. It is built into our essence. The downfall of the Roman empire was one such collapse where just about all achievements of technology and social organization were abandoned. It was a gradual process. It is through collapse that (human) life truly renews itself. Same on an individual level. You will not discover your core essence without hitting rock bottom.
I get what you mean but the problem is how to discern what are "facts" from the theoretical assumptions that allow the data to be assembled into information that serves a particular model.
I know it gets a bit circular but how do we know our science is not just another story? I am broadly in agreement with you I think but there are methodological issues hidden in the details...
Thanks for your feedback Marti. I tend to see facts on a spectrum, with some being more black and white, and other "facts" more grey zone. "Fuzzy logic," which sounds kinda sketchy on the surface, is actually a good way to see many complex statements of so-called truth. I do think there is a danger in taking a strong po-mo argument against truth, ie: it is all power-based and subjectively biased. To complicate matters, facts, like fictions, must also be assessed according to their values and dangers. Things get fuzzy pretty quickly.
@@user-nt6ps9rn3e Things do indeed get fuzzy very quickly ! A couple of points occur to me here: there is a inherent problem when trying to engage in debate since people get really attached to their fictions (for reasons I mention in another post here), secondly this fuzziness should not mean that we cannot assess progress in knowledge eg the theory that the earth is a perfect sphere is not as good as the theory that the earth is an oblate spheroid. Both of these are better than the idea the earth is flat. Thirdly this is a very long running debate - my introduction to it was through reading Feyerabend and Lakatos.
@@user-nt6ps9rn3e True, but you still have to be able to function so you have to make cognitive decisions.
Stupidity manifests itself here immediately in the form of background music. Totally unnecessary - and disturbing to many, especially to people with hearing issues. But for some reason there is a mainstream trend that every stupid person chooses to follow and therefore uses background music to everything.
I didn't really notice it at all as I was pretty interested in what he had to say, but I'm sorry if you have hearing issues. Little things like that can really get on a person's nerves.
I agree! And it's always ALWAYS a marimba. Why? WHY?!
Was there background music?? I was too focused on what he was saying & didn’t even notice! Time to rewatch!
Background music versus AI and nuclear war? There is a gap in intelligence here
@@rapharts1 Can you explain what good is background music for here? And especially, why is it that people with hearing issues are not included as recipients of whatever message is to be delivered?
AMEN!
pretty good stuff :)
Is stupidity a force, or a wave? It certainly seems to be peaking at the moment...
amazing ¡
Bravo Κύριε ! Brilliant ! And your book I read, also. A Greek friend, Demetrios Maniates.
Why though during the 1960s and 1970s were people healthier or, at least, lower in weight? Maybe they over-ate; after all, there'd have been plenty of food in the refrigerator. But, at least, the food they ate was less unhealthy. The combination of food companies, developing cheaper, less healthy food items and the advertising that promotes those foods, is to blame. I recall during the 1970s there'd only be one main meal of the day: dinner. That would be as much a way of bringing the family together as it was eating. And the food would be, usually, two types of vegetables, potatoes and a protein.
I think I've answered my own question: it's the proliferation of garbage food, peddled by food companies that want to lower costs and maximise profits and, of course, advertising agencies are complicit in this as it's easy money.
Talk to the aboriginals and listen carefully to their point of view on life.
With the people I live with.... I'm still in the Savanna 😂😂
Yuval as a child was “ afraid of the monster under the bed” ‘ n now He is the Monster under the bed!
Cada um se vinga como pode!
Children who are afraid of monsters under the bed will never grow up to be soldiers, cops or firemen etc. They will never defend their country or their values or even defend themselves from violence. They will grow up to be weak adullts like this guy that would sell his ancestry and history for his own comfort or gain. Totally untrustworthy.
Benefits = GOOD, responsibility = BAD. That's how Australopithecine operate
Perfect sense if WEF (his friends ) stop making poison and addictive foods for us to buy ( almost all supermarkets options ) .
Cool ❤
The man in this video speaks as if he's immune to the human problem he's presenting. He also simultaneously attempts to take advantage of that very problem to persuade the listener.
So how would you communicate your message? Tell us what you can do; without taking advantage.
Have you read his books, or you are judging him only based on this 10 min short video? I read his book Sapiens, a brief history of humankind.
@@davidh3f I read that book too. Sad to say it is a waste of time. My reply to him:
"Stop repeating this stupid narrative. The 'gorging gene' theory is fundamentally flawed in many ways.
1. The intake of food is limited by the capacity of the digestive system. Basically, humans could not gorge themselves.
2. Unlike the domesticated fruits bought from markets, fruits in the wild are not as refined and sweet.
3. Storage method at time also limited the duration of food preservation. Thus sapiens are willing to share, i.e., to store food in others’ bellies.
We are very willing to share our land and food with sapiens in Palestine, would you?"
@@Lee-Van-Cle see you copy/paste a lot.
@@davidh3f Yes, but I bet you don't where those points from. Unlike Harari, I'll not make up scientific information to build a theory.
Spectacular as always 🎉
The music should be cut it’s dreadful and distracting from the message
Excellent speech, but the music is so terribly distracting and not necessary at all.
The fiction that works today is a well woven mixture of objective truths and speculation so its not complete fiction. Complete fiction like a beautiful garden in the sky leads to a dead end.
this kind of rambling i can hear in front of every late-night store...
I thought i keep eating not because that this is going to get away. Many eat just because they want to experience it again and again. They do this compulsive eating more often with chocolate and not with rice given the fact that both are there in the fridge.
Einstein said “there are only two things that are infinite: the universe and human stupidity…and aim not sure about the former …”
and i am not even sure about the first one
I'm really good at eating as many sweets as possible.
Thank you I really enjoyed this episode. I am now going to go eat all of the cake in the fridge before the Baboons get it.
I am going to buy some eclaires and eat them on my new lazyboy chair. Soooo freaking comfy. Cheers.
What does the music add to this? His words are enough…
But AI requires a power source. At what point, can it control us enough to prevent us to “pull the plug”?
We believe that the whole is made of parts and we grade the parts from good to bad and we say that to keep the bad parts is stupid.
Yes, we can only solve our global problems with global cooperation. No, tens of thousands people building a pyramid for one bloodthirsty dictator because they would have been murdered if they had not is not cooperation. Most people don't believe in fictions. They go along with them to please people they need. This type of cooperation can't solve our problems! Most people go along with stories to feel safe in a world controlled by others, not because they are stupid. Most people are never given a chance to show how smart they are. And if they were, we could solve our global problems pretty quickly.
i think it's best for humanity to chill and listen to hailey reinhart
Agree! Hailey is wonderful.
@@Liisa3139 best vocalist ever
Why don't we also discover the explosive power of human intelligence first?
People believe in lies and false promises? They're idiots. We're idiots!
Lots of good stuff but not sure we need fiction to pull people together. Lots of examples of people joining together for non-fiction reasons.
Name some, please.
@@timtruett5184 World Wars, charities, non-profit organizations...
Look at that high hat!
The music 🎼 is a very nice touch the folks that complain are weak minded that allow outside forces to bother there inside cause they are weak brained words probably affect them also
Yuval is right about humanity needing to believe fictional stories of various kinds. I would suggest that there are a few things that needs to be added to this insight:
1. The stories are not arbitrary despite their variety and seemingly infinite complexity - they need to address a central aspect of being human namely our consciousness of our own mortality (again we are probably the only species to do this with sufficient cognitive ability for it to matter).
2. These stories create what you could broadly call "cultural" identities and the near certainty that we perceive other people's stories as a threat (ie if their story about life/morality/identity etc. is correct then mine cannot also be true). As we rely on our stories for our self esteem, identity and sense of value this is almost certain to lead to conflict (hence religious and political conflicts populist ideologies of various kinds etc. and ultimately war between states and blocs.
3. These "stories" are not just grafted on top of some natural identity but they literally are our selves - we develop as human beings in society.
Now of course we are complicated - eg political identities, coexist and conflict and modulate with religious, nationality and intellectual ones etc.
But doesn't this sound like what exactly is happening just now? For whatever reason I think we are seeing some shared stories (eg the value of democracy, the rule of law, even the value freedom ) come under massive pressure possibly due to failures in international capitalism, the ecological crisis etc. I would predict that people will double down or seek out those stories that give them simple answers to their anxieties.
4:44 I dont think you need to believe in any fictional story to build a hospital 🤔
But I guess you need to in order to let an individual own it, instead of the public.
But then there a university hospitals.
Love you Yuval ❤
In an era when the US democracy is on the brink of collapse, Yuval's insights are gold for the intellect.
Truth!, authoritarian fascism is all about "belief" in the "perfect," "strong", "infallible" "dear leader". The hierarchical thinking (together with intelligence) in people, the tendency of some to just believe and obey a certain kind of person who flips the switches deep in their brains due to something in evolution, the Stalin's, Hitler's, Mussolini's, Orban's Trump's that should never rationally be given any power but just have that sick "charisma" that flips the switches in their followers brains.
they are gold for him and his WEF friends.
All that glitters is not Gold!
Some are easily impressed.
The problem is that Yuval and his accomplices don’t care about most people. They use their knowledge to create a world where few benefit at the expense of many who suffer. They seem to have zero moral compass.
in victoian days big was beautiful and showed wealth
Speaking of stupidity, Did WWIII really start on February 24 2022 or when Victoria Nuland handed out Cookies 10 years earlier?
Re: Writing for children.
I don’t think it’s because the adults didn’t care that they don’t understand life. I think many adults don’t even know that they don’t understand life: ignorance.
Also: “If you can’t explain it to a six-year-old, you don’t understand it yourself” Einstein.
More money on healthcare? Where??
Great speech. Makes a lot of sense except for the nostalgia for the "peaceful order" in early 21st century. Seems to have forgotten about America's violent wars on Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria and numerous attempts of coups and regime changes, a.k.a. coloured revolutions, such as the Arab Spring, coup in Kyiv etc., which set the stage for further conflicts. Pax Americana has its victims too.
8:20 Does AI decide for itself?
He says what it means to be human, but forgets the historians modesty: according to Yuval.
some creature is meddling with a primitive string instrument in the back ground,.. in a primitive way,.. strange they didnt notice it while uploading.. good speech.. but you all know all harakiri...
It's evolutionary history, yes.
What about the cooperation of ants or bees….
Who better than this guy to talk about stupidity.. being one of the best living examples of thos stupid entities that pretends to command the world...
All very good and relevant observations that really go to the root of human nature - our DNA genes chromosomes all being so different. The big challenge is this something we want to control? What is the point of stating these observations if there is probably no solution. We are all just on a graph from crazy - sane from smart - stupid from good looking ugly. We are all just individuals. Should we start tampering with creating the… Lol ““ perfect human being?
11:48 i wouldnt use the word understood, putin is unpredictable and its not a matter of understanding, but rather encountering an escalation.