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> “Whenever his facts are broadly correct, they are not new, and whenever he tries to strike out on his own he often gets things wrong, sometimes seriously,” the anthropologist wrote in a scathing review […] When a computer scientist sees that Mark Zuckerberg is calling not him, but Harari, to consult on the effects of technology on humanity, he’s understandably mortified, just as an epidemiologist likely is, when he finds out that UNESCO has asked Harari about the effects of Covid on international scientific cooperation. For a long time now, Harrari hasn’t been a simple essayist: he has become the Oracle of Delphi.

There was a post here the other day titled “A blog post is a long and complex search query to find people”. [0]

Well, perhaps a book is a long and complex motivation letter to get public speaking engagements and a career promotion.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38137377