Impact Books: 'Homo Deus' by Yuval Noah Harari

Tom Bilyeu reviews "Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow" by Yuval Noah Harari.

Impact Books is a book review series that focuses on highlighting impactful books sure to free you from the Matrix. Every book reviewed will give you the insights and tools to help further you along your journey of transformation.

Tom Bilyeu is the co-founder of 2014 Inc. 500 company Quest Nutrition — a unicorn startup valued at over $1 billion — and the co-founder and host of Impact Theory. Impact Theory is a first-of-its-kind company designed to facilitate global change through the incubation of mission-based businesses and the cultivation of empowering content. Every piece of content Impact Theory creates is meant to underscore the company mission to free people from The Matrix and help them unlock their true potential. Impact Theory exists to inspire the next generation of game-changing companies and creators that will make a true and lasting impact on the world.

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[adrienjamai]

I'm in the middle of reading this and the new perspectives it gives me are mind-blowing!

[MichaelGordon]

When you mentioned this book on the IT episode with Peter Diamandis I had to go check it. This book has changed the way I see the world. It changed my life. I have never felt more moved by any piece of media in my life. It should be required reading. The book is beautifully written and the storytelling is mesmerizing.

The way Yuval is able to intertwine psychology, science, technology, mythology and Philosophy (among many other subjects) to pull together the thesis of the book is outstanding. It opens up worlds of possibilities and makes you question everything.

A++ 5 stars!

What are we going to look back on in 10, 25, 50 or 100 years and consider crazy and absurd?

[MereMortalsPodcasts]

I never even realised Tom that you did Impact books way back when, very cool - taking a look at this one before putting together my own review of the book.

[debasishborthakur]

Hie Tom.. I'm a big fan of your's.. I'm from India.. I wana ask you a question.. Can human age reversal be possible in coming future days??..

[kultarshergill]

Great review thank you Tom, from dust in the wind to gods, spectacular.

[MariviCastilloTips]

I was really looking forward to this review!! Thank U Tom! 🙌🏼 As soon as I finish "Sapiens" I'll go for "Homo Deus" ✌🏼

[stephenodey]

Yuval Noah Harari book is mind blowingly brilliant . You spoke passionately about this book at Bar Americain, it had me thinking in a totally new way, brilliant book chose & review .I am buying the book thank you Tom

[lennon-life]

Most of the algorithms sound bleak but the partner finding one, I want that!

[stevemcconnar]

Wow, this video blew my mind.
I'm so grateful for all of your videos they truly have had an impact along my new journey, so a BIG THANK YOU to you and your whole team.

After hearing you talk about Yuval's theory of where we are headed as a species, which the author seems to be insinuating heading towards extinction (correct me if I'm wrong). A few questions for everyone:

First - What would happen to us as humans and more specifically to the part of our brain that's responsible for decision making? How much lazier would that make us? We've already become so dependent on computers that many people neglect their minds and would rather save time and energy using a calculator or typing a question into google instead of using our own minds to come up with the answers we are perfectly capable of answering ourselves.

Which leads to my second question- Why is it so important for us to use our own brains and make our own decision, when in reality if we have A.I. essentially optimize us by directing us through their calculations(which have been formed through watching our every move)? Thus making a more efficient world based on whatever they've been programmed to see benefiting the world.
Personally I think that would make life SUPER ironic because this would lead to a reversal of roles where humans first brought computers and AI to serve humanity  and this would be reversed into now us, the people, serving AI for their intersubjective truth.

As sad or depressing as our species diminishing may seem to some of us, whose to say whether that's really a good or bad thing when good and bad are subjective? If this were to happen and it is possible (keeping in mind that it is 1 possibility our of an infinite number of possibilities) wouldn't it just be a natural part of evolution? I mean if you remove your ego and look at it from a broader perspective, considering that Dinosaurs once we on top of the food chain and now humans run this world, why would that be so terrible?

[davidalearmonth]

Hi. I just discovered the Story Shots app, and it seems that they've taken the audio of your video here for their book summary. Just curious if you authorized this? Wondering how their app works and if they are just stealing / amalgamating content. I don't think I saw you credited, I just found your video separately. Thanks!

[arvi]

Reminds me a bit of these quotes from UGKrishnamurti:
"You know the story of 'Alice in Wonderland'. The red queen has to run faster and faster to keep still where she is. That is exactly what you are all doing. running faster and faster. But you are not moving anywhere."
"Society or culture or whatever you might want to call it, has created us all solely and wholly for the purpose of maintaining its continuity and status quo."
"I am simply pointing out that at the rate at which we are going the whole genetic engineering technology will end up in the hands of the political system to be used for the complete control and subjugation of man."
"If you are freed from the goal of the "perfect", "godly", "truly religious" then that which is natural in man begins to express itself. Your religious and secular culture has placed before you the ideal man or woman, the perfect human being, and then tries to fit everybody into that mold. It is impossible. Nature does not exist at all. Nature is busy creating absolutely unique individuals, whereas culture has invented a single mold to which all must conform. It is grotesque."
"Our mind (and there are no individual minds — only "mind", which is the accumulation of man's knowledge and experience) has created the notion of the psyche and evolution. Only technology progresses, while we as a race are moving closer to complete and total destruction of the world and ourselves. Everything in man's consciousness is pushing the whole world, which nature has so laboriously created, toward destruction. There has been no qualitative change in man's thinking; we feel about our neighbours just as the frightened caveman felt towards his. The only thing that has changed is our ability to destroy our neighbor and his property."

[thomasmccormack]

My understanding was a bit different than yours on the point of animal welfare.
I think Harari discusses this point for the following reasons:
1) we are dicks for treating animals the way we do.
2) AI will be superior to us, and they/it will have the moral authority to treat us as we treat animals today.

[tonyjacob]

but why the distinction between AI and human? isn't there a possibility of integration between human and AI? As one.. as the new world view suggests there is no distinction between self and other.

[joyfulsavage]

Woah! Welcome to the Humanism party guys 🎊 😎

[stephenodey]

Great book review Tom . Do you think Dr Rhonda Patrick, has one of the numbers, in the combination to unlock immortality?
Immortality as Yuval Noah Harari rightly say gives you an eternity to experience the highs of happiness, and also your right as time gives us all the opportunity to "gain as many skills possible with utility & put them to good use in helping others " . Is immorality then a way to endless happiness and knowledge? And with an eternity of happiness an knowledge would we truly like a god but still in a human but changing form ? or something else? Thank you Tom for such a thought provoking book.

[prodiqi]

I love sapiens that's nice, he has a new book! getti g it soon

[AllanHys]

There was quite a bit of copy pasting from his other book 21 lessons for the 21st century.

[MD-npnk]

You think immortality lies in the realm of human possibility? ...

[south]

On the article “Silicon Valley favorites weird philosophy is fundamentally wrong” it says if If, through biotechnology, we could drastically enhance ourselves—such that our ability to absorb and manipulate information was unlimited, we experienced no disquiet, and we did not age—would we? Should we advocates for radical enhancement, “transhumanism, ” answer “yes” its a no-brainer. Accordingly, they press for the development of technologies that, by manipulating genes and the brain, would create beings fundamentally superior to us. “

Therefore we are “HOMO DEUS” in other words human gods hahahahaha.

[davida]

We still have a chance to control the boundaries of AI. We must have an AI police enforcement that protects those boundaries from AI creators with bad intentions. AI models should require a license to exist on the internet. So that users know that these models have been authorized by the AI authorities. We need the guard rails for our own good. AI models require policing by the Feds and or State, even more so than people do.