Sapiens [Tenth Anniversary Edition] A Brief History of Humankind

Right now, I read the book a long time ago, but I wanted to hear it again. It's called Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari. I hope I'm pronouncing you right. Yuval, hopefully, you've heard of him before. Get it? So this is a book about how we started as a human species, and it explores everything from then to now and compares and contrasts all different ages of the human life, really. It's really, really cool. Check it out if you can.

That's like the book Sapiens. Yeah, that basically we've all One of the things we've created here is we've imagined ideas that we all share ideas of beauty ideas of truth Ideas of fairness we've all created together and there's it doesn't exist outside of us as a society and no it only exists to us

There's a great book Sapiens from Noah what is Yuval Harati um it's a great book but it just it outlines the history of the human race and these various tribes that have dealt with like weird shit like that like there's there's certain tribes that like when they see like old ladies that are moving too slow yeah they just kill them.

Did you read Sapiens?

It's a evolutionary book about human history.

What is Noah Yuvall-Harradi?

I think that's his amazing writing down.

Yeah, it's a great book.

They would talk about these nomadic tribes that would

Yeah, that's it. Yuvall Noah-Harradi, I fucked up his name.

They would talk about these nomadic tribes that would kill the old ladies.

He delves into- It's the same guy who wrote sapiens. I maybe I don't know. What's his name? No?

You have read that book Sapiens, yes, such a great book.

I was reading Sapien at the minute.

the book Sapiens by Harari yeah great book he makes a point about grain and slaving us because the agriculture revolution 10,000 years ago they we didn't really become better according to him it was less nutritious it was um it was just a worse way of living than the hunter gatherers did

Sapiens is amazing. Yeah, Sapiens my favorite book I'm on the second one right now.

I don't know if he's reading the book Sapiens.

He just recommended a book which I'm really interested in that. I wanted to tell you about okay, because it sounds like it's right up here 1491 alley, okay called sapiens. All right a brief history of humankind.

It has a pretty remarkable thesis which is that humans can Humans didn't kill each other off Because they can cooperate in large numbers Because we have a ability a unique ability animals don't have to believe in things that exist only in our imagination huh, like government and money and God right and he said all of these things allow us to cooperate Like we talked about in our money episode.

He said it was amazing So and thank you for relating that.

He just recommended a book which I'm really interested in that. I wanted to tell you about okay, because it sounds like it's right up here 1491 alley, okay called "Sapiens". All right a brief history of humankind.

It has a pretty remarkable thesis which is that humans can Humans didn't kill each other off Because they can cooperate in large numbers Because we have a ability a unique ability animals don't have to believe in things that exist only in our imagination huh, like government and money and God right and he said all of these things allow us to cooperate Like we talked about in our money episode.

He said it was amazing.

He just recommended a book which I'm really interested in that. I wanted to tell you about okay, because it sounds like it's right up here 1491 alley, okay called sapiens. All right a brief history of humankind Oh, that sounds neat by Yuval Noah Harari love that guy and the

It has a pretty remarkable thesis which is that humans can Humans didn't kill each other off Because they can cooperate in large numbers Because we have a ability a unique ability animals don't have to believe in things that exist only in our imagination huh, like

He just recommended a book which I'm really interested in that. I wanted to tell you about okay, because it sounds like it's right up here 1491 alley, okay called "Sapiens".

All right a brief history of humankind Oh, that sounds neat by Yuval Noah Harari love that guy and the

It has a pretty remarkable thesis which is that humans can Humans didn't kill each other off Because they can cooperate in large numbers Because we have a ability a unique ability animals don't have to believe in things that exist only in our imagination huh, like

Government and money and God right and he said all of these things allow us to cooperate Like we talked about in our money episode. Yeah, it's like money has that paper has no value We just all agreed so it's essentially fiction right the whole concept of money, right?

I read his book sapien actually beautifully written book not even his first language, by the way I don't think it was his first language and he wrote a you know So he is and he's a he's a great communicator, which is even more ominous, but he's evil and he's evil

I think if you look across his mega bestselling books like Sapiens and Homo Deus, you all know Harari really has one major topic. That topic is cooperation.

Sapiens took the world by storm, selling over 23 million copies in 65 languages.

It became one of the most influential nonfiction books of the 21st century.

It's absolutely amazing that you write such intelligent books and you get people to read them.

This is your story as a human being. What does it mean to be human?

As far as we can tell from a purely scientific viewpoint, human life has no meaning.

It is a book that has changed how millions of people think about history and themselves.

Sapiens took the world by storm, selling over 23 million copies in 65 languages.

And it became one of the most influential nonfiction books of the 21st century.

It's your story as a human being. What does it mean to be human?

The agricultural revolution was history's biggest fraud.

Sapiens, A Brief History of Humankind. It is a book that has changed how millions of people think about history and themselves.

And if you haven't, well, prepare yourself for a treat and perhaps to have your mind blown.

which tells the entire history of our species in under 450 pages.

It came out of this university course. I worked in Hebrew originally, and I was struck by the fact that there was no book in Hebrew which tells the history of the world to the Israeli audience.

So I write for them. And there was no competition because there was no other book available.

And I took a risk and I said, hey, I loved your book. But actually, I don't know why anyone else likes it because it's missing the key feature that everybody likes. ... I read his amazing book, Sapiens, there is not a character in the entire book.

So he violates your first rule of storytelling. How can this book sell millions of copies when it doesn't have anything that people like? And so very early on in the interview, I took a risk and I said, hey, I loved your book. ...

If Sapiens was a conversation that helped us understand how humans dominated or got to the position of power that we got to as a species, it feels like Nexus is a conversation about the networks and the information that has gotten us there and the way that it could end us all.

Your book, Sapiens, is the perfect example of that.

That was the book that completely changed people's ideas of how we organize society and why humans have the power we do.

I think the final nudge came from Yuval Noah Harari. You had him on the show as well, right? So he wrote this book called Sapiens about the big picture, right? The history of humanity of the last hundreds of thousands of years. And in that book, he doesn't make any moral judgment whatsoever. So he talks about the Nazis and he's like, I don't know, describing it as, you know, just another culture, right? ... And then at the end of the book, he talks about the way we treat animals. And he has this offhand remark where he says, well, this is probably the biggest crime in all of human history.

the author of Sapiens and the Nexus, he said something that really stuck with me.

we had the author of Sapiens and Nexus, Yuval Noah Harari on.

Yuval Harari, the author of Sapiens is a friend of mine. He's gay and he jokes that, you know, his partner Itzik when he uses TikTok, it only took Itzik, you know, one or two clicks for TikTok to figure out exactly which rabbit hole to send his partner Itzik down.

Yuval Harari, the author of Sapiens is a friend of mine. He's gay and he jokes that, you know, his partner Itzik when he uses TikTok, it only took Itzik, you know, one or two clicks for TikTok to figure out exactly which rabbit hole to send his partner Itzik down.

Like, you know, a factory worker in Idaho may not have the time to sit down and read a book like, you know, sapiens or, you know, so, or pride and prejudice with Thomas.

I'm thinking about my guest Yuval Noah Harari, the author of Homo Deus and Sapiens.

His amazing international bestselling books, Sapiens, Homo Deus, and 21 Lessons for the 21st Century.

By the way, reading that book helped me because that context and perspective I think is so important in understanding who you are and how you fit into this world and why you got there and why you got there.

As Sapiens author Yuval Noah Harari said, on this show actually, so if you missed that episode, go back and catch it. It was great.

Now, what stood out to me is that I know that Sapiens is one of your favorite books.

We've had everyone from Yuval Noah Harari, the author of Homo Deus and Sapiens.

His amazing international bestselling books, Sapiens, Homo Deus, and 21 Lessons for the 21st Century.

By the way, reading that book helped me because that context and perspective I think is so important in understanding who you are and how you fit into this world and why you got there and why you got there.

This book really changed my understanding of human history and where we came from.

I think it was you, Veal Harari in Sapiens, where or no maybe it was Homo Deus, where he talks about how in the future the wars will be fought within intersubjective reality, within the reality of story, within the reality of narrative.

Yuval No Harari Sapiens series

That's one of the main things that I learned from Sapiens, right, by Yuval Noah Harari, about the fact that up until whatever, 15,000 years ago, there's no opportunity for people to have massive amounts of inequality because there's nowhere near enough surplus resources.

He has shown millions of readers how humans have evolved to where we are now, but what does the future hold for us as a species?

He is best known for his bestselling books, 'Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind', 'Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow' and '21 Lessons for the 21st Century'.

You can pre-order the 10th anniversary edition of 'Sapiens', here: https://bit.ly/48JVQ6c

I was thinking about sapiens and the role that stories play in engaging our brains.

And in America, obviously the same narrative of the wall and the southern border, they're crossing our border in the millions. It's their rapists. They're not sending their good people. They're coming from mental institutions has galvanized people together.

The whole homo deus phenomenon, as for example illustrated in the book by Yuval Noah Harari on artificial intelligence, this idea of transhumanism that actually we should go for this and turn human beings into gods seems to me to be incredibly dangerous and it's the height of pride, arrogance, and it is very destructive.

And just to give your listener some context, one of the three authors on this New York Times article is famous for writing this book, Sapiens.

At some point it was just amoebas and then eventually these amoebas evolved to Tyrannosaurus rexes and it took billions of years he said what AI now is an amoeba but it'll get to T rex in about 10 years and I think he's right

I'm also interviewing Yuval Harari who wrote Sapiens as a new book out called Nexis.

I'm also interviewing Yuval Harari who wrote Sapeansie as a new book out called Nexis.

I like you've all know Hari, the guy who wrote Sapiens. Yeah, Harari. Him with armed with AI, his next books, I can't even imagine the kind of content he's going to be able to produce because the way his mind works, his ability to connect instinct with human behavior and what the future might look like. I just don't think any AI can come up with that, but what he'll be able to do is say, all right, give me a history of homo sapiens in this era and what happened.

I had to listen to you all Harari with my 13 year old for hours on this college tour.

Whoa-wee. Yeah, it's like Sapiens. Oh, I like Sapiens.

Yeah, it's like Sapiens. Oh, I like Sapiens.

I put a passage in your book from Sapiens, from Yuval's book.

Your book is often described as a mix between sapiens and behave, which is fair.

Although behave is such its own masterpiece.

It's like sapiens or intelligence.

Now he's reading Sapiens.

Now he's reading Sapiens. I bought him that too.

I'm also reading this book called Sapiens, really interesting. And one thing, I only brought that up because there's this part in the book anywhere where they talk about how luxuries easilyquickly become necessities in our lives.

In Yuval Noah Harari's book, Sapiens, he argues that our societies are almost entirely constructed around stories.

I think that, yeah, I was talking recently about the book Sapiens by Yuval Harari and a book that as I said I found interesting even though I disagree with 85% of it. He argues that rights don't exist. He says that they're just a cultural myth that we came up with for obvious reasons it makes society work.

It's a book called Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari.

I disagree profoundly with a lot of the stuff in the book; it's basically a polemic against the agricultural revolution and antireligion, though it does have some genius elements.

I think it's called Homo Deus. And he wrote a book. Yeah. It was a little bit about AI. I encourage people to go read it. It's very interesting. It raises some of these questions.

I think it's called Homo Deus. And he wrote a book. Yeah. It was a little bit about AI. I encourage people to go read it. It's very interesting. It raises some of these questions.

Here's the thesis of the movie, movie book, Sapiens is that before mankind invented agriculture and just silos of wheat, just eating all this wheat and all these carbohydrates that begat all these diseases, ancient man would eat bugs and turtles and shells and hooves of things and just everything fish trying stuff.