[HN Gopher] The Dangerous Populist Science of Yuval Noah Harari
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The Dangerous Populist Science of Yuval Noah Harari
Author : MrsPeaches
Score : 14 points
Date : 2022-10-13 20:44 UTC (2 hours ago)
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| boxmonster wrote:
| Yuval Noah Harari says civilization was a mistake but doesn't
| follow up with any plan for getting rid of it
| dublin wrote:
| Could have fooled me: It certainly looks as though Harari's
| developed quite a detailed and viable plan for getting rid of
| civilization for Klaus Schwab and the execrable World Economic
| Forum and its private jet setting supporters...
| ncmncm wrote:
| For all that, he is less dangerous than Malcolm Gladwell.
| matthewmacleod wrote:
| This is an interesting read. I wouldn't be quite as emphatic as
| the article and headline here are, but personally I had a pretty
| negative reaction to _Sapiens_. I can 't totally describe why -
| it was something like an impression that the neatness, cuteness,
| and elegance of many of the ideas and principles described in it
| were just a paper-thin veneer over a much more complex and messy
| and ambiguous reality.
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| I don't think I realised until I saw this article that reading it
| gave me a the constant back-of-the-mind feeling that I was
| reading a _story_. Kind of like a string of assertions with
| little-to-no real meat on them. I felt like I was being told
| "this is what happened", rather than "here's what I think might
| have happened and why".
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| I know it's just pop-science and all and absolutely has it's
| place - it's wildly popular and people obviously find meaning and
| value in it (and as someone who hasn't sold 23 million books I'm
| no expert). I was just surprised about the buzz when I read it,
| and how few people I've met who felt the same way.
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