"Our speakers really don't need any introduction so I'm really actually not going to give them an introduction.".. Proceeds to give them an introduction.

I’m a sound nerd and I, for the life of me don’t understand how they cannot arrange a better audio situation when two interesting people like these meet

I appreciate Natalie’s courage of having a public conversation with such an intellectual as an actress, this is not a part of her job but she still volunteers to do it, just to deepen her knowledge and show respect to someone she admires. She makes me think about the social responsibilities of people in the entertainment industries too. Ofc she’s a Harvard graduate everyone knows that speech...

Will be amazing a discussion between Harari e Noam Chomsky

shout out to Professor Harari from Tripoli Libya , I have learned so much from you Sir

Thanks for subtitle...from Vietnam

It is not a Conversation, Its a Q&A, Q from Natalie, A from Yuval :)

My theories of some questions that pop up during this beautiful conversation: -What is art? I believe art should be a authentic expression of someones feeling & thoughts. And that real art is or should be a kind of love in the way of sharing and acknowledging each others feelings and thoughts. -Why and how are weak men dominating the world for so long so 'succesfully'? First of all 'power' and domination are not the same. Power in my understanding is if you are able to fulfill your essentiel needs in life, physically and emotionally. Provide for your existance to stay alive and be physically and psychologically healthy. And because we are social beings and live in social societies that means we need the ability to connect to other people in a positive way, because we're dependent on each other. Also as we need strenght within us for the challenges of life, physically as psychologically. In regards to other people this means having the ability for gaining attention, attraction and trust. You depend on having stable connections to other people to fulfill your basic physical and phychological needs and be able to live an healthy and happy life. For this you need the feeling of self esteem and self worth, which you get in a healthy upbringing. Where the psychological health is as important as the physical, because otherwise you will get sick (or even kill youself. Because that's our natures way to show us that somethings going wrong. Sicknesses are really a warning system, we have to listen to and not something 'bad' that should be eliminated without understanding.). People, which don't got this power within themselves by their upbringing (self esteem, self worth to attract other people to have (stable) connections and relationships ) have the urge to get that power. If they don't achieve that somehow by reflecting themselves honestly as first step, they will compensate by building structures which will get them what they are not able to get within themselves to provide their needs. And also they will compensate their lack of it until then, because they were helplessly suffering and that also created hate, rage, envie and fear. So the most powerless people have the most energy for compensating that and building structures to do so. Not realizing that it's only a substitute and they really still haven't gain the real power, otherwise they wouldn't need these substitutes (to controll and dominate people to secure their needs if they would be able to get that through a strong, respectfull and loving personality in a much easier and pleasent way). This regards men and women. But because women got more power by nature because them giving life and being mothers, they could compensate more silent and within their family. So this men also take revenge or try to defent themselves(men) to their abusing mothers by dominating and forcing structures on the outside, where they have 'power'(domination) over them. Which leads to even more suffering... And now it seems that they want to deprive women of their power by creating life on their own trough genetics and AI. Instead of reflecting the causes of our problems and powerlessness and REALLY repair and improve things within our complex nature instead of eliminating feelings at all to make it seamingly easier. We have to learn to honestly reflect and deal with our problems, not to escape in a virtual artificial world, thinking we know better than nature. Nature gave us potential to live a respectful, happy and healthy life all together, if we learn to respect and deal with the complexity of our feelings. What I see now is even worse than 'just' total control and domination, it is surrender and trying to escape our responsibility by transferring it to inanimate objects, masking it as improvement. But time will show that this will not replace the real lack of power, which has to be within us to make us happy and fullfils our needs with as less harm as possible. (English is not my native language, so I hope it's understandable :)

I'd love to hear discussion between Harari and Dawkins

I'd be really interested in hearing a discussion between him and Elon Musk or him and Jordan Peterson as they all have varying philosophical perspectives and are well articulated

Sad that there is so much echo : ( Would love a podcast version of this with high quality sound

It's great to find talks subtitled in english. It's a great way to improve your listening skills with real english at the same time you are seeing some interesting things

I enjoyed watching this panel discussion. Thank you!

she said she wouldn't do any introduction, yet she did.

it was a pleasure to see the conversation after having read your book, greetings from peru

Been listening to Yuval’s interviews a lot these days and this one is a special, thanks to wonderful questions from Natalie

Love from India! Thank you.

Sometimes i just wonder, do thinkers like Harari fight with their romantic partners over petty things like i do.😐

Am so much influenced by both Harari books. It gave me so much clarity of ideas.

its seems like a question and answer session between a teacher and his student . newayz interesting and informative

Loved the last speech by Yuval....

Time Stamps From 00:19 Natalie Portman From 27:45 State Violence From 32:18 consistent match between physical strength and social and political power. From 42:23 Do we throw away our smart phones? From 59:42 Inspiring Human Emotions From 01:12:15 What led women to share their story From 01:17:43 Have Religions in general had a positive or negative impact on Humanity. From 01:21:03 What is the essence of being Human?

Wow ! Natalie threw a zinger question at 17.50 that stumped Yuval. This intellectual discourse is overwhelming !

Loved his books and loved his talk. He is not afraid to tell the truth even on subjects which are considered taboo. The world really needs enlightened people like him!

Amazing to see these two together!

This is the best crossover episode I've ever seen

Mr. Yuval, Thanks for sharing your view points to the world. We need more of this kind of people to bring back the sound judgment to the people. I am an Iranian person living in Europe. I hope people such as yourself can stop the crazy stupid wars of the present and prevent the more horrible wars of the future. Thanks

"Myth factory of the world" OMFG!!!!!!! I wonder how your post didn't ignite in holy fire, but on a second thought, perhaps those words are too deep to fanatics to understand.

Good evening, the Online Course: A Brief History of Humankind was excellent. The issues explained in 21 lessons are of great significance for the future. Hence I suggest that an online course on 21 lessons for the 21st century would be a meaningful contribution to the flourishing of humankind. It will help understand the evolution of our contemporary society and what is at stake.

I'm happy to still a live until meet YNH via internet , I can not stop watch and listen, great to meet holyood and science psychlogy economy ...philodphie..from Morocco thank you Ynh.

I'm a sound engineer and this is unacceptable, and they should have immediately came out with the wireless mic or adjusted his headset so it wasn't rubbing on his face.

Thank you for great mic work. (Sarcasm)

Biography Harari was born in Kiryat Ata, Israel, in 1976 and grew up in a secular Jewish family[3] with Lebanese and Eastern European roots in Haifa, Israel.[4] In 2002 he met his husband Itzik Yahav, whom he calls "my internet of all things".[5][6] Yahav is also Harari's personal manager.[7] They married in a civil ceremony in Toronto in Canada.[8] The couple lives in a moshav (a type of cooperative agricultural community of individual farms), Mesilat Zion, near Jerusalem.[9][10][11] Harari says Vipassana meditation, which he began whilst in Oxford in 2000,[12] has "transformed my life".[13] He practises for two hours every day (one hour at the start and end of his work day[14]), every year undertakes a meditation retreat of 30 days or longer, in silence and with no books or social media,[15][16][17] and is an assistant meditation teacher.[18] He dedicated Homo Deus to "my teacher, S. N. Goenka, who lovingly taught me important things," and said "I could not have written this book without the focus, peace and insight gained from practising Vipassana for fifteen years."[19] He also regards meditation as a way to research.[17] Harari is a vegan, and says this resulted from his research, including his view that the foundation of the dairy industry is breaking the bond between mother and calf cows.[4][20] As of January 2019, he does not have a smartphone.[21] Academic career Harari first specialized in medieval history and military history in his studies from 1993 to 1998 at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He completed his PhD degree at Jesus College, Oxford, in 2002, under the supervision of Steven J. Gunn. From 2003 to 2005 he pursued postdoctoral studies in history as a Yad Hanadiv Fellow.[22] He has published numerous books and articles, including Special Operations in the Age of Chivalry, 1100-1550;[23] The Ultimate Experience: Battlefield Revelations and the Making of Modern War Culture, 1450-2000;[24] The Concept of 'Decisive Battles' in World History;[25] and Armchairs, Coffee and Authority: Eye-witnesses and Flesh-witnesses Speak about War, 1100-2000.[26] He now specializes in world history and macro-historical processes. His book Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind was published in Hebrew in 2011 and then in English in 2014; it has since been translated into some 45 additional languages.[27] The book surveys the entire length of human history, from the evolution of Homo sapiens in the Stone Age up to the political and technological revolutions of the 21st century. The Hebrew edition became a bestseller in Israel, and generated much interest both in the academic community and among the general public, turning Harari into a celebrity.[28] KZfaq video clips of Harari's Hebrew lectures on the history of the world have been viewed by tens of thousands of Israelis.[29] Harari also gives a free online course in English titled A Brief History of Humankind. Published works His book Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow was published in 2016, examining possibilities of the future of Homo sapiens.[30] The book's premise outlines that, in the future, humanity is likely to make a significant attempt to gain happiness, immortality and God-like powers.[31] The book goes on to openly speculate various ways this ambition might be realised for Homo sapiens in the future based on the past and present. Among several possibilities for the future, Harari develops a term for a philosophy or mindset that worships big data.[32][33] Harari's most recent book is called 21 Lessons for the 21st Century and focuses more on present-day concerns.[34][35][36] It was published on 30 August 2018.[37][38] In Chapter Two he addresses the increasing number of people made unemployable by advances in automation and AI. He examines an universal basic income for every citizen regardless of their employment status as a measure to counter economic unemployment. Views and opinions Harari is interested in how Homo sapiens reached their current condition, and in their future. His research focuses on macro-historical questions such as: What is the relation between history and biology? What is the essential difference between Homo sapiens and other animals? Is there justice in history? Does history have a direction? Did people become happier as history unfolded? Harari regards dissatisfaction as the "deep root" of human reality, and as related to evolution.[17] In a 2017 article Harari has argued that through continuing technological progress and advances in the field of artificial intelligence, "by 2050 a new class of people might emerge - the useless class. People who are not just unemployed, but unemployable."[39] He put forward the case that dealing with this new social class economically, socially and politically will be a central challenge for humanity in the coming decades.[40] Harari has commented on the plight of animals, particularly domesticated animals since the agricultural revolution, and is a vegan.[4] In a 2015 Guardian article under the title "Industrial farming is one of the worst crimes in history" he called "[t]he fate of industrially farmed animals (...) one of the most pressing ethical questions of our time."[41] Harari summed up his views on the world in a 2018 interview[42] with Steve Paulson of Nautilus thus, "Things are better than ever before. Things are still quite bad. Things can get much worse. This adds up to a somewhat optimistic view because if you realize things are better than before, this means we can make them even better. " Harari wrote that although the idea of free will and the liberal values it helped consolidate "emboldened people who had to fight against the Inquisition, the divine right of kings, the KGB and the KKK", it has become dangerous in a world of a data economy, where, he argues, in reality there is no such thing, and governments and corporations are coming to know the individual better than they know themselves and "if governments and corporations succeed in hacking the human animal, the easiest people to manipulate will be those who believe in free will."[43] Harari elaborates that "Humans certainly have a will - but it isn’t free. You cannot decide what desires you have... Every choice depends on a lot of biological, social and personal conditions that you cannot determine for yourself. I can choose what to eat, whom to marry and whom to vote for, but these choices are determined in part by my genes, my biochemistry, my gender, my family background, my national culture, etc - and I didn’t choose which genes or family to have."[43] Awards and recognition Harari twice won the Polonsky Prize for "Creativity and Originality", in 2009 and 2012. In 2011 he won the Society for Military History's Moncado Award for outstanding articles in military history. In 2012 he was elected to the Young Israeli Academy of Sciences.

Thank you!

I'd really like to know Natalie point of view about that last question...damn

This is akin to the most awkward date between a nerd and an angelic, goddess of beauty and wisdom!

I LIKED THE CONVERSATION SO MUCH

It should be an obligation that all these important videos be subtitled so that Spanish-speaking people can access all this wonderful knowledge. Thank you

Great conversation! Harari’s points of view are always very interesting to read and listen, and Portman also has helped making terrific questions and developing ideas. I shouldn’t say this but as a guest, I would have been lost from the moment I realized Portman’s fly is down so…kudos, my friend.

सपेइंस् एक अद्भुत पुस्तक है , मुझे अभी भी याद है मेरे पापा ने ये पुस्तक मेरे जन्मदिवस पे दी थी, और वह पुस्तक पढ़ने के बाद मे युवाल गारू का फैन होगया। भारत को भी ऑटोमेशन पे काम करना चाइए।

Thanks for posting this video!

They make a perfect match. One of the best interviews of Yuval. Thanks Nathalie 🙏

love the firecracker ambience playing in the background... so soothing.

What is the result of philosophy anyway?! -Philosopher: Democracy. What is the benefit of democracy?! -You can criticize everything?! Even religions. (Just listen to the last 4 minutes of Harari speech in this clip). So, what is the benefit of freedom of expression?! -To be more tolerant and live in peace with people with a different belief system. _____ I just love this guy. He is the youngest philosopher of our generation. Salute _______

He seems to be an amazing and truly original thinker, also his humorous way of conveying his speech is great. Awesome discussion from both sides in their own ways.

Thought this wasn’t the best interview but still lots of good stuff.

That was excellent conversation about our human existence and it being hackable soon. Now, may I suggest that a conversation be arranged also between Yuval Harari and Sadhguro. This would be exciting also because of its existentialism. Thank you.

we need more unity stories for all people right now

I have read Sapiens and Deus... excellent research... such a pleasure to to hear the man himself

so fascinating, thank you for posting.

It amazes me how some men, and women appoint themselves as having more value than others

The resource curse, also known as the paradox of plenty or the poverty paradox, is the phenomenon of countries with an abundance of natural resources (such as fossil fuels and certain minerals) having less economic growth, less democracy, or worse development outcomes than countries with fewer natural resources.[1] There are many theories and much academic debate about the reasons for, and exceptions to, these adverse outcomes. Most experts believe the resource curse is not universal or inevitable, but affects certain types of countries or regions under certain conditions. wao holy smokes.... Takes BALLS to say all this so openly, logically and clean. If Only we could get our heads out of sand?! What an intelligent and solid discussion. Thanks Natalie for your amazingly smart questions. Keep them coming. I always loved you as a gorgeous and true actress but now I am in love :)

2 of my absolute favorite people talking together. The only thing that would make me happier is if I was there talking to them too.

wonderful people with modesty and the capacity to think for their own! why is this so rare?

I’m a Moroccan Muslim & fascinated by this “Jewish Israeli” person. Time to stop labeling ppl based on religion or believes and just admire their knowledge.

i loved it so much! love from 🇮🇩

Love yuval’s ending speech..

33:28 social power depends on social abilities.

Is there a highlight video of this by any chance? So keen, but so long.

Great discussion, two great people. Look forward to next book Yuval.

Beautiful, intelligent and talented actor Natalie. Great historian Yuval. Loved Sapiens book

Além de ser uma atriz incrível, ela ainda é uma pessoa extraordinária 👏

Great interview--thanks! Natalie Portman is a timeless talent, and if not already, we hope she gets her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. -The Ofori-Atta Family

No hay emociones negativas, todas sirven para algo. Las emociones forman parte de las estrategias vitales para interactuar con circunstancias en constante cambio e impregnadas de incertidumbre! Regular las emociones no equivale a reprimirlas y menos a eliminarlas.

This guy is the true messiah: "Now certainly Hollywood is competing with the Holy Land for the title of the main story factory of the world." // "Living in a place where, at least recently, people have been killing each other by the millions over fictional stories makes you see the world in a very particular way"

Wonderful conversation between the two of you! I appreciate what you're bringing to light! I also look forward to purchasing your last two books! Your first book 'Sapiens - A Brief History of Mankind' was absolutely captivating!

Feel like I need to read one book first to understand each question. So inspiring. Thank you.

Wonderful guests!

Natalie filled the glass 7 times

I think by explaining all of that you are also creating “a story” (quite powerful one).

Does anyone else think Natalie is nervous during the conversation, still she carries herself so gracefully.

Professor beautifully explained the differences and the effects of spirituality and religion in the last answer. Thank you for such a good answer.

We need more people from Israel like this- open and free minded, warm, honest, not a religious radicals or homophobic power abusers.

Amazing mind. Note on AI producing better art than artists for the receiver/ viewer: Possibly yes. But I believe that art's main purpose is in the artist's making not the people's liking . It is by producing the work that an artist often learns/ grows/ heals...

They are a perfect match interview wise She is inquisitive He has so much to offer

I'm very curious to hear this conversation and even tried my best but a BIG Thanks to sizzles on the mic made it impossible for me. (Sorry to have misophonia!)

3:22 Hollywood competing with Holy land to be the fiction factory of the world. This is a fascinating perspective.

Natalie and Yuval 💖💖💖💖💖

Love from Vietnam. Simple in appearance but so meaningful in conversation

What is the name of the book he talked about in the interview? Any ideas? Thanks:)

As always, it's always amazing to listen to both of you.

The whole AI issue makes my skin crawl.it’s not just an emotional reaction it’s from everything he said - if you give your free will to a computer, to mathematical algorithms then you take away our ultimate goal for being alive - we find our purpose for being here through our choices whatever they maybe , however and by whoever we were influenced by .. it’s how we learn to make our own choices - why in gods name would you want a computer to take this away - in allowing algorithms to make choices in essence we will become a computer generated version of a human . Nothing more than a drone following the orders of an algorithm that may or may not be influenced by “whoever “ has programmed the AI . This brings me no comfort at all . It would however bring a great deal of comforts and security to certain people , namely the people who think free will is not something society needs …

I think that art is more about expressing and communicating emotions or thoughts, which AI can't do, as far as I know. That of course has the secondary effect of generating some reaction in the receiver, which does not necessarily coincide with what the artist wanted to express.

It's crazy watching this now. it dropped in 2018 and Yuval brought up Hermione possibly being black in a stage version of Harry Potter and now, in 2022, we're arguing about Halle Bailey being The Little Mermaid.

Yuval Noah Harari has the most soulful intelligence. he speaks to everyone's soul and intelligence. he also talks on practical ways with the right words... he could answer anything...

4 years later, AI can make art,3d and even animations from texts

19:40, Pretty awesome and simple recap of the whole history right there.

He has a very analytical point of view-certainly a way to see things that is respectable. There is more to life than that, I am sure of it, but it's still interesting and certainly reflects a viewpoint shared by a group of people

I agree. Movies are stories about good and evil + the right choice of methods for solving problems. They are figurative, act immediately on the subconscious. In the real world, a person has little time to think, he chooses a solution from those already known to him. So yes, it is the writers and directors' responsibility to find such solutions - after all, by modeling reality, they have enough time to find the best solution.

there are many people on the planet, it is true, we must begin to disappear, let's start with you yuval

"Our speakers don't need any introduction so I'm really not going to give them an introduction" (introduces them)

Brillant ❤️🙏🏻✨

I think at first we have to be really honest to ourselfs and others to create a better society! Thank you for the inspiring conversation!

Natalie was genuinely curious and it showed. Yuval has lit up this deep curiosity among us at scale, that now it'll be difficult for anyone who has understood him to just stay put in their comfort zone. Interesting times ahead.

Carla Gannis Professor at NYU is combining Art and AI has been for years see her work.

Great chat

KZfaq recommending me Harari's videos to know how I am being manipulated. Just amazing

People now are blaming fiction stories for their mistakes 👀 No Yuval that's not how it works, as a philosopher you should know this. I thought this world can't get any worst but here we are.

Can listen to Prof Harari for hours , he has deep understanding of human history , psychology , behaviour and he asking right questions about future of humanity and impact of AI

31:00 - Love this