Quotes About Yuval

Earlier traditions usually formulated their theories in terms of stories. Modern science uses mathematics.

Money is accordingly a system of mutual trust, and not just any system of mutual trust: money is the most universal and most efficient system of mutual trust ever devised.

Since humans are individuals, it is difficult to connect them to one another and to make sure that they are all up to date. In contrast, computers aren't individuals, and it is easy to integrate them into a single flexible network.

Fiction isn't bad. It is vital. Without commonly accepted stories about things like money, states or corporations, no complex human society can function.

From a biological perspective, nothing is unnatural. Whatever is possible is by definition natural

The most interesting emerging religion is Dataism, which venerates neither gods nor man – it worships data.

Unlike nuclear war—which is a future potential—climate change is a present reality.

ritual is a magical act that makes the abstract concrete and the fictional real.

The less political violence in a particular state, the greater the public shock at an act of terrorism.

Justice demands not just a set of abstract values, but also an understanding of concrete cause-and-effect relations.

Few of these forecasts came true. On the other hand, nobody foresaw the Internet.

On December 7, 2017, a critical milestone was reached, not when a computer defeated a human at chess—that's old news—but when Google's AlphaZero program defeated the Stockfish 8 program.

engineer genius mice that display much-improved memory and learning skills.

We still use our mouths for that purpose, but we also use them to kiss, speak and, if we are Rambo, to pull the pins out of hand grenades.

History is not deterministic. It is not a means for making accurate predictions. Our present situation was neither natural nor inevitable, and we have many more possibilities before us than we imagine.

want to gauge group loyalty, requiring people to believe an absurdity is a far better test than asking them to believe the truth.

El humanismo es la creencia de que Homo sapiens tiene una naturaleza única y sagrada, que es fundamentalmente diferente de la naturaleza de todos los demás animales y de todos los otros fenómenos.

The gossip theory might sound like a joke, but numerous stories support it.

Conversely, the greatest sin would be to block the dataflow. What is death, if not a condition in which information doesn't flow?

puesto que solo hay un mundo real, mientras que el número de mundos virtuales potenciales es infinito, la probabilidad de que habitemos el único mundo real es casi nula. Ninguno

Animals are the main victims of history, and the treatment of domesticated animals in industrial farms is perhaps the worst crime in history.

The historian Yuval Harari notes that terrorism is the opposite of military action, which tries to damage the enemy's ability to retaliate and prevail.