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Venkatesh Rao ☀️
@vgr
I have decided to blame Harari for everything. He turned public-intellectual culture from mostly harmless sideshow of Tom Friedman/Malcolm Gladwell era to toxic “service thinking” designed to align with target tribal fictions https://www.currentaffairs.org/2022/07/the-dangerous-populist-science-of-yuval-noah-harari
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Brad Barrish
@bradbarrish
I feel like the more attention people like Harari receive, the more criticism they attract, which makes sense. At the risk of being non-gloomy, are there books or specific authors that might get compared to Harari that are more factually correct and/or tend to be more celebrated by the scientific community?
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Josh | The Blockchain Socialist
@tbsocialist
Graeber and Wengrow > Harari
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GIGAMΞSH
@gigamesh
What do you mean by "everything"? All his critics seem to think everyone reading him thinks they're reading a science text book. I just read it all as interesting, plausible takes. Not sacred truth.
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Patrick Atwater
@patwater
One quibble w a specific critique: whether or not some animals have language seems to be a still open question ongoing high potential lines of inquiry https://www.earthspecies.org/
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borodutch
@warpcastadmin.eth
i need the same article but for dalio this was pure gold, ty for sharing
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Leo
@lsn
Reading this the authors strongest critique does seem to be ideological rather than scientific But in that spirit I didn’t find it particularly compelling with ref to Harari in particular The essay dismisses Kevin Kelly as a “magazine publisher”, pretty disingenuous I think Harari is a product of the market
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