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Yuval Noah Harari
“What the example of astrology illustrates is that errors, lies, fantasies, and fictions are information, too. Contrary to what the naive view of information says, information has no essential link to truth, and its role in history isn’t to represent a preexisting reality. Rather, what information does is to create new realities by tying together disparate things—whether couples or empires. Its defining feature is connection rather than representation, and information is whatever connects different points into a network.”
Yuval Noah Harari, Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI

Yuval Noah Harari
“As a much more extreme example, consider Jesus. Two millennia of storytelling have encased Jesus within such a thick cocoon of stories that it is impossible to recover the historical person. Indeed, for millions of devout Christians, merely raising the possibility that the real person was different from the story is blasphemy. As far as we can tell, the real Jesus was a typical Jewish preacher who built a small following by giving sermons and healing the sick. After his death, however, Jesus became the subject of one of the most remarkable branding campaigns in history. This little-known provincial guru, who during his short career gathered just a handful of disciples and who was executed as a common criminal, was rebranded after death as the incarnation of the cosmic god who created the universe.”
Yuval Noah Harari, Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI

Yuval Noah Harari
“AI can process information by itself, and thereby replace humans in decision making. AI isn’t a tool—it’s an agent.”
Yuval Noah Harari, Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI

Yuval Noah Harari
“The cultural obsession with purity originates in the evolutionary struggle to avoid pollution. All animals are torn between the need to try new food and the fear of being poisoned. Evolution therefore equipped animals with both curiosity and the capacity to feel disgust on coming into contact with something toxic or otherwise dangerous. Politicians and prophets have learned how to manipulate these disgust mechanisms.”
Yuval Noah Harari, Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI

Yuval Noah Harari
“Contrary to what the naive view believes, Homo sapiens didn’t conquer the world because we are talented at turning information into an accurate map of reality. Rather, the secret of our success is that we are talented at using information to connect lots of individuals. Unfortunately, this ability often goes hand in hand with believing in lies, errors, and fantasies.”
Yuval Noah Harari, Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI

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