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title: "Recording, transcript, and notes for AI Book Club discussion of Yuval Noah Harari’s Nexus"
date: 2025-11-22
description: "Audio-only version Book review Discussion questions Timestamps Transcript Terms and definitions Notes and discussion..."
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# Recording, transcript, and notes for AI Book Club discussion of Yuval Noah Harari’s Nexus
> This is a recording of our AI Book Club discussion of [Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI](https://www.amazon.com/Nexus-Brief-History-Information-Networks/dp/059373422X/) by Yuval Noah Harari, held Nov 16, 2025. Our discussion touches upon a variety of topics, including self-correcting mechanisms, alien intelligence, corporate surveillance, algorithms, doomerism, stories and lists, democracy, printing press, alignment, dictator's dilemma, and more. This post also provides discussion questions, a transcript, and terms and definitions from the book.

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## Book review

I wrote a review post on this book here: [Review of Yuval Noah Harari’s “Nexus” — and why we don’t need self-correcting mechanisms for “alien intelligence.”](/blog/review-harari-nexus-scms-and-alien-intelligence)