The Rich Roll Podcast – Yuval Noah Harari On Why Clarity is Power – https://radiopublic.com/the-rich-roll-podcast-G4N4P1/s1!4f7e11c3e32027e3971575cf1ec40f38e2928839
Had the must fulfilling hour listening to 2 people I personally admire. In conversation Rich Roll and Yuval Harari. The fact that they are so divergent in what they do and still could come together to stitch something so meaningful is awesome. Here are my takeaways and disagreements with what they think:
1. They conclude that one would need to reinvent themselves 4 – 5 times
to stay relevant. I would say that’s an understatement, that number could be 8 -10. The maths is simple around 40 to 50 yrs of active professional life and change cycles are 4 – 5 yrs. That’s it. #education is power.
2. In the current data age, Knowledge is NOT power, CLARITY on what to do with that data and knowledge is the actual power.
Could agree no more. Knowledge is freely available with advent of #internet and #technology, even cheaper is spreading it magnanimously through the power of #socialmedia. What’s difficult is carrying the batten to lead next gen to a more meaningful world with right extraction from this knowledge.
3. The perils of #artificialintelligence and how we are enslaving ourselves to it with consent is so scary.
What is scarier is AI falling into rouge/despotic state agencies and then citizens being conditioned right from kindergarten days or be exterminated (on realisation that the dissident cannot with any dosage of conditioning be brought inline with the state). This is the secret police 1984 George Orwell coming alive.With noble usage of AI like early detection of a perilous health condition, help to the old and diseased with voice commands, making right choices in terms of how one spends his limited time on the planet wisely and fruitfully. The idea is to maintain a balance on who and how handles the levers on AI, well that’s just the idea – how do we do it. No clue.
4. Climactic changes and the fear of entire nations be gone with it.
Hilarious was the positive spin that Yuval gave it. Some practical thoughts like Russia being a major beneficiary when icecaps would melt and Siberia turns a bread basket for the World (oops!) or opening up of shorter sea routes promoting trade and commerce or even to the extent of humankind be cornered to create alternative bio-friendly technologies to save whatever we have left of the planet. To my mind – any man disaster can never lead to total annihilation for a man made disaster always has benefactors/sponsors. I am sure we will come to a solution. Will be slow but will be perpetual.
5. If the damages are so obvious why don’t political leaders make election manifestos out of it.
The reason they conclude is simple – a ‘to-be-elected’ leader looks at winning next 4 or 5 years. The changes that we are talking are so deeply ingrained that they will take a few decades. We are talking about completely changing the way we live and think. Does solution lie in extending the leadership – I wouldn’t think so. That makes the incumbent too totalitarian, a despot. An option could creating be a National list or a charter, as holy as the preamble of the consitution with an option to be reviewed every 10 years by a body which is not elected, to broad and generic as an idea but could be pursued if we could have the right intent.
6. Finally, Veganism as trend and clean meat. They argue, that raising and killing animals for consumption is cruelty, an option in works is ‘cellularly created meat’
just for consumption – how about raising a steak instead of a whole chicken. The idea is sound to me but to a huge cross section of global population this is cruelty and blasphemy at an altogether different level, this is man playing god himself. The cell that was supposed to grow into an able bodied chicken is now just a steak- total sacrilege.
This talk is a ‘definite hear’. It opens the mind up to infinite possibilities that are not just coming but they are already here! Go savour it.
Thanks Rich and Yuval, keep enlightening us.
