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"The most important question is not 'What do I want to be?', but 'What do I want to feel?'."
"We are developing the ability to engineer life."
"We are constantly upgrading ourselves, but we don't know what we want to upgrade ourselves into."
"Most people don’t really want freedom because freedom entails responsibility, and responsibility is frightening."
"The greatest danger of artificial intelligence is that people will use it to amplify stupidity."
Israeli historian whose Sapiens (2011) and Homo Deus (2015) reframed big history for a mass audience and sold tens of millions of copies. Closely associated with Jared Diamond (Guns, Germs, and Steel author and Harari's clearest intellectual ancestor) and Steven Pinker (data-driven optimist contemporary). For an intellectual contrast, see Jordan Peterson, Canadian psychologist and Maps of Meaning author — Peterson's Maps of Meaning argues that religious-mythological structure is the load-bearing architecture of human meaning — exactly the framing Harari's 'religion as useful fiction' thesis treats as historically transitory. The two are the largest-platform popular intellectuals of the 2010s with opposite views on whether religion encodes deep truth.
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