Yuval Noah Harari

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  Brave New World👍 Recommends

  …harari recommends huxley's science fiction as prophetic about manipulation of humans through pleasure

  “Another book that I would like to recommend is Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, which I think is maybe the best science fiction book of the 20th century, certainly the most prophetic, which also he wrote it in the 1930s, against the backdrop of the rise of fascism and communism and so forth, but he foresaw that maybe the most effective way and even the most dangerous way to control human beings is not by sheer brute force and fear and terror like in Orwell's 1984, but actually if you work with the pleasure principle and with human greed and desire, you can get further than if you just try to crush people and terrorize them all the time.”

  on The Ezra Klein Show

• Chimpanzee Politics👍 Recommends

  …harari recommending deval's book on primate politics and its lessons for human society

  “Another recommendation is basically any book by Franz Deval. I really like his first book, Chimpanzee Politics, which I've read like 20 years ago and completely changed my understanding, not so much of chimpanzees, but of human beings and of politics.”

  on The Ezra Klein Show

• The MANIAC👍 Recommends

  …book recommendation exploring ai origins and consequences through von neumann biography

  “the maniac, which is a sort of fictionalist biography of John von Neumann, but also a very imaginative and powerful exploration of the origins of the AI revolution and of the potential consequences of it.”

  on The Ezra Klein Show