More often right than I am, probably:
Nick Bostrom,
Leda Cosmides,
Linda Gottfredson,
Hanna Kokko,
Claire Lehmann,
Steven Pinker,
Peter Singer,
Christina Hoff Sommers, &
Eliezer Yudkowsky,
(plus Hume, Darwin, Galton, Fisher, Hayek, Maynard Smith, & @sentientist, obvs ;)https://twitter.com/SarahTheHaider/status/1173275697030320128 …
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Oh sorry, I meant if it was my list. I wasn't saying he's right more often than you.
I was just curious .. haven't read any of his stuff yet.
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I've only read Sapiens, but listened to many of his interviews (Homo Deus taunts me from my bookcase). Whereas I feel Malcolm Gladwell often chooses his outcome and then builds a bridge to it, It feels like Yuval built his premises from the ground up as an historian first. 1/2
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His ideas around how shared stories (fictions) brought us to where we are and explain many of the challenges we face is a powerful tool for analyzing the insanity around us. 2/2
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I was excited to read Harari as biologically literate historian but was very disappointed by the first half of Sapiens (should have turned to Diamond, first!). Seemingly without realizing, he veers between genetic selection and silly for-the-species group selection arguments...
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Update: finally back to reading it and the middle part about history, economics, and religion is very interesting, including some clever contrarian arguments. And some libertarian candy for Dr. Miller ;Ppic.twitter.com/0NW46qpkKX
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Yuval has blown my mind (as have you). That even concepts that I consider bedrock like human rights are all a fiction, but at the same time, he's not a nihilist.
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