Harari’s quote demonstrates spectacular hubris. Perhaps it’s a blessing to be relieved of boring, repetitive, stressful, transactional jobs, so that we can spend more time on the things we enjoy and that bring satisfaction and meaning to our lives. I am surrounded by retirees who have no problem finding meaning outside of Harari’s ‘best guess’ of drugs and computer games. Challenges not withstanding, dystopian speculation regarding the ‘irrelevant masses’ seems unnecessary.
At some point, a line must be drawn. If Harari, Elon and friends succeed in creating the dystopia they seem to desire, then even if we're able to teach our children to seek and find meaning, they will be a small minority in a democracy ruled by amoral plutocrats and populated mostly by aimless, depressed, totally dependent, nihilistic do-nothings. What kind of world will that be, and how can we avoid it?
I'd say we're already there. The peers of our children look much like the prediction (computer games definitely, drugs suspected). People are amazed at the skills our children have, and are willing to pay them premium rates for the simplest tasks.
Harari’s quote demonstrates spectacular hubris. Perhaps it’s a blessing to be relieved of boring, repetitive, stressful, transactional jobs, so that we can spend more time on the things we enjoy and that bring satisfaction and meaning to our lives. I am surrounded by retirees who have no problem finding meaning outside of Harari’s ‘best guess’ of drugs and computer games. Challenges not withstanding, dystopian speculation regarding the ‘irrelevant masses’ seems unnecessary.
At some point, a line must be drawn. If Harari, Elon and friends succeed in creating the dystopia they seem to desire, then even if we're able to teach our children to seek and find meaning, they will be a small minority in a democracy ruled by amoral plutocrats and populated mostly by aimless, depressed, totally dependent, nihilistic do-nothings. What kind of world will that be, and how can we avoid it?
Harari should wonder about himself. His books and speeches will be (and maybe already can be) delivered by AI
and they can shove it up their mythical book gender inverted assholes
I'd say we're already there. The peers of our children look much like the prediction (computer games definitely, drugs suspected). People are amazed at the skills our children have, and are willing to pay them premium rates for the simplest tasks.