The question is if this is still the case due to the nature of AI today. Historically, decentralized and distributed systems are normally and in general more resilient, efficient, innovative and effective relative to centralized systems (see also the great books by Nassim Taleb with Antifragile and Kevin Kelly with Out of Control for more research). AI and social networks) favoring dictators / centralized systems or decentralized systems? See also this highly successful and viral TED video by Carole Cadwalladr for additional Facebook criticism focusing on the Brexit and democracies: Imagine, compromising DeepFake videos being used on Facebook like in the Russian-Cambridge Analytica campaigns…. This was even confirmed by Zuckerberg himself when he talked about video virality in this dialogue. In short, Facebook is like Heineken beers: do not use it too much, it is bad for you.
#YUVAL NOAH HARARI INTERVIEW OFFLINE#
The shift should be less online time spend and more offline to avoid insanity as emerging mental health disease going forward and to create more harmonious societies locally. Both had a good argument here in my view but I would prefer offline relationships as a stabilizing force in an exponentially changing world. Zuckerberg defended the online communities while Harari told about the value of offline communities. There was a related dialogue around the value of offline vs online communities. Checking in with yourself is a prerequisite to checking in with other people in an effective and authentic way. So people are more disconnected with themselves than in the past and probably as a result less harmonized with each other as well and social media play a role in this. It is not only driven by social media but empirical scientific research confirms there is a role here. Youngsters increasingly are lonely, depressed, anxious, have auto-immune diseases and burn-outs. People are more connected (virtually) than ever before but we also see some disturbing statistics around the world related to social media. I believe he is right looking at todays increasing conflicts in the world. There is difference between being connected and being harmonized. Connecting people sometimes lead to more conflicts compared to being isolated says Harari. We are more connected than 10.000 years ago. In this post I would like to review some of the key topics and questions being discussed by Harari and Zuckerberg and give my own questions and thoughts in this respect.Īre we more connected or not historically? Even tough Harari is not a tech expert he sometimes does raise some interesting questions as shown below. On top, recently George Dyson confirmed in an post that we move away from digitization back to analog (quantum) systems driven by nature itself due to its control, context, complexity and performance. So AI is very different from Dataism and Consciousness (see Roger Penrose for more depth).
Consciousness is scientifically proven to be driven by not only our brains but also our bodies and even the universe itself (muons). Human consciousness and existence is not just data.
In his book Homo Deus he shows in my view that his ‘Dataism’ is overblown.
#YUVAL NOAH HARARI INTERVIEW SKIN#
Harari clearly is not a technology expert like Zuckerberg, he lacks skin in the game in this domain. I invite all viewers to watch the body language of Mark Zuckerberg around sensitive topics related to Facebook and/or USA data policies. Zuckerberg is understandably protecting Facebook almost all the time due to his role as CEO, Harari is independent. Overall I feel and think that Harari came about in a more positive way relative to Zuckerberg on most topics.
The last few days there was a considerable buzz around the conversation between Mark Zuckerberg and Yuval Noah Harari (author of Sapiens, Homo Deus and 21 Lessons for the 21th Century)