Book · recommended on 2 episodes
The Three-Body Problem
Liu Cixin
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Liu Cixin
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This book by Liu Cixin has come up 2 times across 2 different shows: Joe Rogan, Lex Fridman. 2 of those mentions were genuine on-air recommendations, not just passing references. The people who brought it up: Jesse Michels, guest. The earliest mention we indexed is from 2021-04-01 and the most recent from 2025-06-03. Every occurrence below links to the episode page and to the exact second it was said on YouTube.
“there's a um great uh Chinese science fiction novel called The Three Body Problem. Great show on Netflix, too. It's amazing.”— Jesse Michels
The guest here is Jesse Michels: Host of the YouTube show American Alchemy, a former venture investor at Peter Thiel's family office turned investigative documentarian on UFOs, suppressed science, and fringe technology. A deep, freewheeling dive into UFOs, secret anti-gravity science, AI risk, and the strange three-fingered mummies of Peru.
“i really liked the three body problem but that's a really hackneyed recommendation but it really made me think and i like the hard sci-fi”— guest
The guest here is Nic Carter: Partner at Castle Island Ventures, co-founder of Coin Metrics, and former crypto asset research analyst at Fidelity Investments. A prominent writer, speaker, and podcaster focused on Bitcoin and decentralized finance. Nic Carter unpacks Bitcoin's core values, the blocksize wars, and why layered scaling, not bigger blocks, is the right path.
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