What Yuval Noah Harari thinks about investing

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Israeli historian and philosopher, born in 1976; author of Sapiens, Homo Deus, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century and Nexus; lecturer in the Department of History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem; co-founder of Sapienship in 2019.

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2 dated positions, 2022 to c. 2024–2025, in their own words. Our reading of what Yuval Noah Harari has said — not written or endorsed by them.

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1. c. 2024–2025

   Our readingGetting at the truth requires investing in costly self-correcting mechanisms, which Silicon Valley thought it was exempt from

   Silicon Valley

   Their wordsThese self-correcting mechanisms are costly, but if you want to get the truth, you must invest in them. Silicon Valley thought it was exempt from this historical rule.

   ↗Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI (Random House, 2025 paperback edition)books.google.com All 31 from this book

3. 18 Jan 2022

   Our readingPreventing catastrophic climate change would cost only low single digits of global GDP, perhaps an extra 2%

   climate change

   Their wordsThe crucial news is that the price tag of preventing the apocalypse is in the low single digits of annual global GDP. It is certainly not 50% of annual global GDP, nor is it 15%. Rather, it is somewhere below 5%, perhaps as low as investing an additional 2% of global GDP in the right places.

   ↗The Surprisingly Low Price Tag on Preventing Climate Disaster (TIME)time.com 3rd of 5 in this piece