Lex Fridman Podcast
#390 – Yuval Noah Harari: Human Nature, Intelligence, Power, and Conspiracies
Yuval Noah Harari
Homo sapiens, about 70,000 years ago, gained an amazing ability to cooperate basically in unlimited numbers. You start seeing the formation of large networks, political, commercial, religious, items being traded over thousands of kilometers, ideas being spread, autistic fashions. And this is our secret of success. Chimpanzees, Neanderthals can cooperate, say, a hundred.
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