Wiser than Yesterday hosts open-ended discussions, breakdowns, and summaries of the world's most thought-provoking and inspiring books.
Our hosts, Nicolas Vereecke and Sam Harris digest non-fiction books from all centuries and genres. They discuss the biggest philosophical insights and practical lessons for health, wealth, wisdom, and happiness.
This podcast is here to help listeners become smarter. To learn about new ideas and to gain more perspectives on the books and ideas they are familiar with.
Each season we tackle a new field and read the best books on a given topic such as racism, startups, stoicism, or personal finance. We cast a wide net to summarise all sides of opinions in an area to come to a wider understanding of the topic at large as well as help listeners navigate the different opinions and ideas they haven't heard of.
We dive into topics such as philosophy, business, equality, psychology, politics, economics, and who knows what else. Our goal is to simply explore the best ideas and learn new things. You're most welcome to join us for the ride.
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Wiser than Yesterday hosts open-ended discussions, breakdowns, and summaries of the world's most thought-provoking and inspiring books.
Our hosts, Nicolas Vereecke and Sam Harris digest non-fiction books from all centuries and genres. They discuss the biggest philosophical insights and practical lessons for health, wealth, wisdom, and happiness.
This podcast is here to help listeners become smarter. To learn about new ideas and to gain more perspectives on the books and ideas they are familiar with.
Each season we tackle a new field and read the best books on a given topic such as racism, startups, stoicism, or personal finance. We cast a wide net to summarise all sides of opinions in an area to come to a wider understanding of the topic at large as well as help listeners navigate the different opinions and ideas they haven't heard of.
We dive into topics such as philosophy, business, equality, psychology, politics, economics, and who knows what else. Our goal is to simply explore the best ideas and learn new things. You're most welcome to join us for the ride.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
A philosophical discussion on part 2 of the Three-Body Problem series, The Dark Forest by Liu Cixin.
We ponder different answers to Fermi's paradox and how we'd deal with different levels of intelligence in the Universe. This of course requires pondering how different levels of intelligent beings might deal with us.
We also ponder at large adaptions of books into screenplays, why writers change the races of original characters and a lot of interesting stuff about aliens, the Universe and the space-time continuum.
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Wiser Than Yesterday
Nico and Sam set out to read the world's best books, from philosophy to sci-fi, economics to who knows what.
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Chapters
00:00 Introduction and Catching Up
01:06 Discussing 'The Dark Forest' Book
04:56 The Dark Forest Theory Explained
07:42 Philosophical Questions on Alien Life
12:33 Speculations on Alien Discoveries
13:50 Advanced Civilizations and Human Progress
16:35 Exploring the Concept of Lying in the Book
16:59 Humanity's Advantage Over the Tri Laurens
17:10 The Dark Forest Theory
17:52 Intra vs. Interspecies Communication
19:31 The Impact of Truth on Society
22:02 Philosophical Musings on Lying
24:37 Lessons from the Book
28:23 Humanity's Overcommitment to Goals
31:24 Breaking Rules and Asking for Forgiveness
34:09 Final Thoughts and Book Rating
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