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YUVAL NOAH HARARI:

BOTH CRUEL AND WRONG

by John Spritzler

December 12, 2023

"In 2015 and 2017, historian and philosopher Yuval Noah Harari discussed how a massive class of useless people was being created. The artificial intelligence revolution is beginning to create “the useless class,” he said. When asked if his 2015 book provided any solutions, he responded: “At present, the best guess we have is to keep them [the useless class] happy with drugs and computer games.” [from https://expose-news.com/2023/12/11/yuval-noah-harari-discusses-the-creation-of-a-massive/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email ]

Above is the cruel Yuval Noah Harari.

But Harari is also wrong; he's just not a credible academic, as explained in "The Dangerous Populist Science of Yuval Noah Harari" by Darshana Narayanan, a

https://www.currentaffairs.org/2022/07/the-dangerous-populist-science-of-yuval-noah-harari :

"The best-selling author is a gifted storyteller and popular speaker. But he sacrifices science for sensationalism, and his work is riddled with errors."

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