Greetings reader
I hope your day is going well. I stumbled across this 11 minute interview with Yuval Hoah Harari about artificial intelligence. He made this very succinct point at time mark 9:32-10:57.

“That 100 years ago food was scarce, so people ate whatever they could, and if they found something full of sugar and fat, they ate as much of it as possible because it gave you a lot of energy. And now we are flooded by enormous amounts of food and junk food which is artificially pumped full of fat and sugar and it's creating immense health problems. And most people have realized that more food is not always good for me and that I need to have some kind of diet. And it's exactly the same with information. We need an information diet. That previously information was scarce, so we consumed whatever we could find.

Now we are flooded by enormous amounts of information and much of it is junk information which is artificially filled with hatred and greed and fear. And we basically need to go on an information diet and consume less information and be far more mindful about what we put inside. That information is the food for the mind. And you know, you feed your mind with unhealthy information, you'll have a sick mind. It's it's as simple as that.”

Yuval Noah Harari on AI: A non-human billionaire with an agenda
Big Think
Nov 6, 2024
Duration: 00:11:25
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcFxYIp5SSU

May this bring some meaningful thought to your day.
TG