Homo Deus

Evolutionary pressures have accustomed humans to see the world as a static pie. If somebody gets a bigger slice of the pie, somebody else inevitably gets a smaller slice.

Perhaps I am the only being in the entire universe who feels anything, and all other humans and animals are just mindless robots?

Humans are in danger of losing their value, because intelligence is decoupling from consciousness.

In the premodern world, people were akin to lowly clerks in a socialist bureaucracy.

A thousand years after Thucydides, the Greeks became convinced that if some barbarian horde invaded, surely it was divine punishment for their sins. No matter how mistaken the biblical world view was, it provided a better basis for large-scale human cooperation.

most scientific research about the human mind and the human experience has been conducted on people from Western, educated, industrialised, rich and democratic

Companies such as Mindojo are developing interactive algorithms that not only teach me maths, physics and history, but also simultaneously study me

Twenty thousand years ago, the average Sapiens probably had higher intelligence and better toolmaking skills than the average Sapiens of today.

Cyber-wars, however, may last just a few minutes.