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 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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Recording, transcript, and notes for AI Book Club discussion of Yuval Noah Harari's Nexus is an episode from I'd Rather Be Writing Podcast by Tom Johnson.

This episode is 58:39 long.

This episode was published on Nov 22, 2025.

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