Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow - in review with Steve Fuller

Steve fuller discusses the new book Homo Deus, how it relates to the general transhumanist philosophy and movementfactors around the success of these ideas going mainstream, Yuval Noah Harari's writing style, why there has been a bias within academia (esp sociology) to steer away from ideas which are less well established in history (and this is important because our successfully navigating the future will require a lot of new ideas), existential risk, and we contrast a posthuman future with a future dominated by an AI superintelligence.

Yuval Harari's books

[Extys]

He is professor of history in the university of Jerusalem not Tel Aviv

[annelawrence]

Steve Fuller doesn't know much about Yuval Harari - not his previous work and not how he came to write Homo Deus. He misrepresents and mischaracterises his positions on several points - he tries to oversimplify as though he were talking to bright teenagers. Not a serious interview, though some of the questions are probing. It shouldn't stop anyone going to the original and listening to and studying Yuval Harari himself - he's far less obscure!

[CandidDate]

The fact is we humans love so much to think about the future, rather than live in the actual future we have created for ourselves. Once the world runs autonomously, we will have no future, and dialogues like this will seem outdated and perhaps evil. Once we have no future, we are shit out of luck.