KEK. If the prof were a wise old green frog, it’d be perfect.
>WEF Advisor Yuval Harari Ponders How World Will Deal With ‘Useless People’
The New Religion of AI & its Prophet, Yuval Noah Harari
https://rumble.com/v11fpdf-the-new-religion-of-ai-and-its-prophet-yuval-noah-harari.html
While I only became aware of this so called AI “Prophet” a few months ago, I have been very concerned since at least 2014 about the pervasive efforts in media and education to undermine human beings’ belief in free will. In this clip, Yuval, whose academic title is “historian”, is being disingenuous when he says that the belief in free will has only been around “for a couple of centuries.” Indeed, the belief in free will, like the belief in god, is one of oldest debated questions in human history. Twenty years ago, this guy would have been laughed out of any respectable University department of psychology, philosophy, or theology. But I find it very troubling that today, this guy is taken seriously by very powerful people. For example, he is literally giving keynote addresses at annual meetings of the World Economic Forum. Fortunately, there is good empirical evidence that demonstrate why his dismissive statements regarding the belief in free will are dangerous.
While most people implicitly believe in Free Will, they have largely been unaware of the dark forces at work for decades to convince everyone that Free Will is just an illusion. These forces include the programming of mainstream media, "Common Core" educational program, and the "transhumanism" movement in all of its manifestations as depicted in movies, magazine covers, and other corporate agendas. A growing body of evidence from research in psychology has demonstrated why this is a very bad idea for the future of humanity.
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"For example, telling people they do not have free will has been shown to increase cheating ( Vohs & Schooler, 2008) decrease helping behavior and increases aggression ( Baumeister, Masicampo, & DeWall, 2009), reduce self-control ( Rigoni, Kuhn, Gaudino, Sartori, & Brass, 2012), and impair detection of errors ( Rigoni, Wilquin, Brass, & Burle, 2013). These findings suggest that believing in free will may be instrumentally valuable from the standpoints of positive psychology and public morality. This is true regardless of whether or not we actually have free will."
Nadelhoffer, T, et al., (2014) The free will inventory: Measuring beliefs about agency and responsibility, Consciousness and Cognition, Volume 25, Pages 27-41.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2014.01.006.
(https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1053810014000075)