I've never been a Harari fan, but this just scales new heights in vapid prophesizing. Briefly, human notions of free will are obsolete (or even dangerous!) because AI will get to the point it can influence us into doing or buying anything.https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/sep/14/yuval-noah-harari-the-new-threat-to-liberal-democracy …
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Then this notion that AI-powered advertising will turn us into will-less zombies. In my "appointed dictator-for-life" fantasy, I order everyone who claims some version of this to sit in front of the Facebook ads-buying UI and try to sell shoes online. They'd change their tune.
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Those most vocal in their claims that advertising is this immensely powerful and dangerous technology that can do everything from swing elections to turn you into a zombie, know almost nothing about it. While actual practitioners tend to be far more skeptical of such claims.
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Possibly the worst public intellectual. So glad he’s #1 amongst VCs.
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That characterization is most certainly wrong. The concept of "the individual" can be found in many non-Christian, non-Western traditions. If it is a myth, then it is a universal myth and a quite useful one, too. A noble lie if you will.
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Did Greeks and Stoics believe in free-will, though?
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Predestination & “free will” don’t sit together easily. One or the other ends up getting downplayed, most often the former. Wonder how a version of Christianity fully embracing the former & accepting the neuroscience concensus on the latter would play in the West?
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