Homo Deus
by Yuval Noah Harari, Joandomènec Ros i Aragonès
44% recommend44% neutral13% critical
Why HN recommends it
An accessible, entertaining look at where technology, AI and data-driven thinking (dataism) may take humanity, tying studies into one big picture. Suits general readers who liked Sapiens and want future ideas.
Common criticism: Some find much of it a rehash of Sapiens
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on “Analyzing Hacker News book suggestions in Python” ↗…are not coming back, if they are, certainly not to humans. We will see a growing class of people who are economically useless. (read Professor Yuval Noah Harari new book https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_Deus:_A_Brief_History_of_... ) And, no, the answer is not basic income. It's intelligence augmentation. Intelligence is the only valuable currency nowadays and we are not acquiring enough of it fast enough…
on “The World in 2076” ↗…voters seem to desire a world where people who have their financial shit together will live, and others will die. For a clear-eyed view of these less inspiring aspects of human nature, read Sapiens and Homo Deus by Harari.
on “New male contraceptive may be submitted for Indian approval this year” ↗Anti-humanism is a very interesting strain of thought these days. Homo-Deus by Harari is my favorite example. The problem, of course, is that if we got where we are now by being humans, then how do we know we're far enough along to 'quit' being humans without going backwards?…
on “Accelerationism: how a fringe philosophy predicted the future we live in” ↗It might not be read much only because it was recently released but Homo Deus by Yuval Harari is off the chain. This dude can explain grand ideas encompassing human civilization in (relatively) simple, brief, and entertaining language and I can't get enough of it. I think Homo…
on “Ask HN: What are the best books you've read that few others have?” ↗Yuval Harari's new "Homo Deus" is excellent. I had a blast reading it. It has a number of things from Homo Sapiens but talks about possible future and fundamental things that drive humans to create technology. Absolute one of my top…
on “Ask HN: Books you wish you had read earlier?” ↗On that topic Harari's Homo Deus is a pretty interesting read. He argues that Humanism is the de facto "new" (2-3 centuries old) religion. Soon to be replace by the celebration of something even more global -- data.
on “The Evolution of Trust” ↗It's quite trendy at the moment, but Homo Deus by Yuval Noah Harari was quite the life changing book. As well as An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth by Commander Chris Hadfield was a rather inspirational tale.
on “Ask HN: What books have most influenced the way you see the world?” ↗Yuval Noah Harari's books, 'Sapiens' and 'Homo Deus' really changed the way I look at things.
on “Ask HN: Which books have made you introspect?” ↗…Yudkowsky The Martian by Andy Weir The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson Honorable mention from 2015: Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari. I have just started Homo Deus and my first impression is that is is a worthy sequel.
on “Ask HN: Books you read in 2016?” ↗…technology (AI for instance, which will necessarily transform our view of the mind, and its essence). I've also been quite influenced in that respect by the recent read of Yuval Harari's books (Sapiens and Homo Deus), in which he beautifully discusses the mind of animals and its implication for us.
on “If you were an elephant” ↗This is a really good summary of part of the point Harari was making in Homo Deus. Awesome book, Harari does a great job of explaining complex ideas for a wide audience.
on “Atmospheric CO2 levels accelerate upwards” ↗The author is Yuval Noah Harari who also wrote Homo Deus, which is a much much more in-depth treatment of this very topic. I highly recommend it along with his previous book Sapiens.
on “The meaning of life in a world without work” ↗I enjoyed reading Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow (by Yuval Noah Harari) this year which focuses on this subject.
on “The Merge” ↗I feel like Yuval Noah Harari is spot on with dataism emerging as the new dominant inter-subjective truth. Go and read Homo Deus, you will not be disappointed. The idea of dataism will slowly replace our current humanistic ideas of liberty/individualism. I'm not saying I agree with the video/general direction, but I think we're…
on “An Alphabet X concept from 2016 is an unsettling vision of social engineering” ↗