Books Mentioned On DOAC By Yuval Noah Harari:

Yuval Noah Harari

I was thinking about Sapiens and the role that stories play in engaging our brains. I was thinking a lot about the narratives in the UK, we have a narrative where we're told that much of the cause of the problems we have in society are employment, other issues with crime...

Douglas Adams

It could be that we are all inside a big computer on the planet Magrathea run by superintelligent mice...

Jean Baudrillard

And now the main metaphor which is, uh, the simulation theory is representing this new metaphor...

Plato

For instance, Plato wrote exactly about that in the most famous parable, I think, from Greek philosophy is the allegory of the cave...

Nick Bostrom

Nick Bostrom in 2014 imagines a superintelligent AI bought by a paperclip factory. The manager tells the AI to produce as many paperclips as possible. The AI then conquers the world, kills all humans, and turns the planet into paperclip factories.

Various

Think about something like theft—you have the Ten Commandments: 'Don't steal.' And you know, people know, yes, you shouldn't steal until it comes to information; 'Ah no, it doesn't apply to information. I can take your information and sell it without your permission.'

Yuval Noah Harari

Having read your book '21 Lessons for the 21st Century', what is the solution? How do we stop the alignment problems, us all becoming paperclips, the social chaos, the misinformation, the Silicon Curtain as you talk about in the book?