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Yuval Noah Harari public figure — reconstructed profile

This is a reconstruction from published statements, not a real account. Only questions with a documented position are answered, and each one cites its source below. Spotted an error? Bring a better citation to the forum and it gets fixed.

Historian & author (Sapiens, Homo Deus, 21 Lessons). Positions from his published books — not a member.

answered 23 questions

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Kindred % · overall match

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Twin % · thinks like you

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World % · lives in your world

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Life % · lives like you

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Opposition % · opposite poles, held with certainty

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Positions & sources

Question	Position	Source
Which comes closest to your actual position on God?	Probably no god, though I can't be certain	Sapiens (2011).
Human-caused climate change is best described as:	Real, mainly human-caused, and a serious problem	21 Lessons (2018) — climate change among the three existential challenges.
Humans came to exist by:	Evolution by natural processes, no guidance needed	Sapiens (2011).
The best economic order is closest to:	Capitalism with a basic safety net	21 Lessons (2018) — the "liberal package" (markets + democracy + welfare provisions) described as history's most successful order so far.
Mainstream news outlets, taken as a whole, mostly:	Systematically distort through bias and incentives, without needing orders	21 Lessons (2018) — attention-economy and post-truth analysis of media.
Twenty years from now, advanced AI will most likely have been:	Net harmful — disruption and harm outweigh the gains	The Economist (April 2023) — AI as an existential-level destabilizer.
Organized religion's overall effect on society has been:	Mixed to neutral — depends entirely on the religion and era	Sapiens (2011) — religion as a unifying imagined order: historically cohesive and destructive in turn.
God exists	Probably false	Sapiens (2011) — gods treated as intersubjective myths; his stated atheism in interviews.
Conscious existence continues after death	Probably false	Sapiens (2011) — afterlife beliefs analyzed as unifying myths, not facts.
Prayer can change what happens in the world, beyond its effects on the people involved	Probably false	Sapiens (2011) — prayer belongs to imagined orders, with no causal purchase on the world.
Human beings arose entirely through unguided natural processes	Certainly true	Sapiens (2011) — humans as products of unguided evolution.
Consciousness is produced entirely by the brain	Probably true	Homo Deus (2015) — organisms are algorithms; consciousness treated as a biochemical process (scored Probably, respecting his residual agnosticism about subjective experience).
With the past exactly the same, our choices could have gone otherwise	Certainly false	Homo Deus (2015) — free will is a myth that modern science undermines.
Some actions are wrong no matter what any person or culture believes	Certainly false	Sapiens (2011) — moral orders are imagined realities, not facts about the world.
Eating meat is morally wrong	Probably true	The Guardian (Sept 25, 2015), "Industrial farming is one of the worst crimes in history"; Sapiens (2011) on animal suffering.
We owe a stranger overseas as much as we owe a neighbor	Probably true	21 Lessons for the 21st Century (2018) — global problems require loyalty beyond nation and tribe.
Healthy adults are better off getting every vaccine their health authority recommends	Probably true	His COVID-era essays (TIME/Financial Times, 2020–21) — pro-vaccination; trust in science against denial.
Genes shape adult personality more than upbringing does	Probably false	Sapiens (2011) — shared stories and culture, not genes, explain human behavior at scale.
Long-standing traditions usually contain wisdom we can't see	Probably false	Sapiens (2011); 21 Lessons (2018) — traditions are myths that routinely outlive their usefulness.
Advanced AI poses a serious risk of human extinction	Probably true	The Economist (April 2023), "Yuval Noah Harari argues that AI has hacked the operating system of human civilisation."
Human life has a purpose beyond the one we choose for it	Certainly false	Sapiens (2011) — the universe has no inherent meaning or purpose; meaning is a human story.
Experts are usually right about questions in their own field	Probably true	21 Lessons for the 21st Century (2018) — explicitly urges trusting scientists on climate and science questions.
Official institutions are honest with the public	Probably false	21 Lessons for the 21st Century (2018), "Post-Truth" chapter — governments and institutions routinely manufacture self-serving fictions.