Humanity's Final Warning: Tianming's Fairytales | Three Body Problem

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[@king_halcyon]

I can't imagine how a hydropower engineer imagined all these elaborate yet beautiful stuff. I highly praise Cixin for this

[@buseyisgod]

That the dual-vector foil metaphor was probably the most obvious and was yet overlooked is just fantastic writing.

[@ShepardCZ]

Overthinking stuff can cause you to overlook the obvious :D

[@ΝικόλαςΚοκοζίδης]

Having just finished reading the book series, I should give my opinion on the fairytales. I think that they are one of the best parts in the book, not only because they are a book inside another book, but also due to their metaphors. When I was reading the stories, I theorized about the possible meanings and symbolisms that were hidden in the lines. Eventually, the true meaning unraveled and it turns out that I was pretty close to it. On a different topic, I think that Quinn didn't mention the fact that princess Teardrop was also bemused and intrigued by the outer world, which played a big role in her decision to explore it. I think that Tianming was also trying to encourage humanity to leave the solar system and explore the universe by saying this.

[@blackcrow6307]

I believe the metaphor of Needle Eye being trapped in his own painting is showcased by the interaction between Singer and the Elder, and the ultimate effect of the dual-vector foil. We find out later that space will keep flattening to two-dimensions forever once it is used, and the weapon will inevitably catch up to the species which deploys it.

[@Sajuek]

Depending upon the distance from which it is used. Universe’s expansion is speeding up.

[@DeadGothicRed]

Grimdark ending lol fuck'em and their Hubris.

[@notoriouspc]

@@Sajuek It's been implied that there have been countless dimension strikes across the universe iirc. Fair point on the expansion, but unless I missed something, I feel like if expansion would've kept dimensions from fully collapsing it retcons the idea that species "downgrade" to lower dimensions to avoid such a collapse.

[@Sajuek]

@@notoriouspc It is a minor plot hole, from a physics perspective. The speed of light is also the speed of relativity. If two points are moving away from one another faster than the speed of light, as very far objects in the universe are, then nothing that effects one of them, including a dimensional collapse that expands at the speed of light, can effect the other. Unless dimension strikes were so ubiquitous that nowhere within the universe was out of range then you should be able to outrun dimensional collapse with a curvature drive.

[@xenn4985]

@@Sajuek Yes it is directly implied that the use of these weapons was ubiquitous. It's not a plot whole, the book literally says there are only three dimensions because the other ones were fucken yeeted.

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​@_kreetch9231 try uzumaki by junji ito or even rice edward burroughs john carter books one is lovecraftian and the other is what built the structure for foundation, dune,hyperion and remembrance of earth past but I won't tel you which genre is which like frank herbert wrote life isn't suppose to know the answers to everything or solve it it's to live and experience the curiosities

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Same here 😂

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Honestly same. I started with Dune (all the original books) after watching the first Villenueve film, and I came across this channel for lore. I want back to earlier videos and discovered a plethora of Scifi literature I had never explored before, and I've since built quite a collection of scifi books I otherwise probably wouldn't have bothered checking out.

[@Griffolion0]

I think Needle Eye becoming a part of his own painting represents the fact that dimensional collapse attacks will eventually consume the entire universe. As such, use of those weapons will one day come back to bite the wielder.

[@winstonsmith6204]

I thought the same thing too

[@w1llb348]

funny enough there's a cult in the books that want exactly that

[@JosePineda-cy6om]

@w1llb348 the resetters want the universe to collapse to 1 or zero dimensions to force a new Meta Big Bang that will revert the universe to its original 10 dimensions. Sounds plausible, but no human or ET society had demonstrated mathematically that it would work so yeah, basically a cult

[@sabarinaskar4690]

@@w1llb348 the zero homers

[@ShepardCZ]

The dimensional collapse is not absolute, as evidenced by the remaining 4D fragments. So perhaps they have countermeasures in place so that their homeworld doesn't collapse? Ultimately, at best, it would just trap them in a 3D fragment, but still better than being flattened.

[@holyroads]

The fairy tales are my favorite part about the books. Thank you for making a video about them!

[@king_halcyon]

I think the strong interaction material of the droplet was very cool as well. What's even cooler is that Cixin didn’t make up virtually any stuff while describing that material!

[@tannerbarnes7392]

Liu really writes great fairy tales, too! Even if you ignore all the symbolism, they're very nice stories!

[@geordiejones5618]

Above all that's what sold the trilogy. It's some good ass storytelling and it was refreshing that it was more focused on the other side of the world instead of just NATO.

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[@4Drow]

@@jakerobinson8013 stop feeding him false hopes. it probably won't. as for the op, be like tianming in the hospital. accept it. and try alcohol to cope, it is by far the best medication out there, but you have to drink until shitfaced. valium and stuff like that does nothing.

[@thelifeofgio]

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[@joef2867]

I said one of the few things, not the only thing. But appreciate the sentiments

[@shanesullivan460]

Spoiler Warning: I ain't no big-city literary analyst, but I kind of figured the Princess leaving the kingdom had something to do with having to abandon pocket-universes in order to allow the universe to be reborn. But I don't know if Tianming and the Trisolarans even knew about that at the time.

[@alexgrissom3513]

I don’t think so, since hundreds of years later he makes a pocket universe for Cheng Xin

[@shanesullivan460]

@@alexgrissom3513 Oh, duh, I completely forgot that's where the portal came from! Well, I'm much too stubborn to revise my opinion, so I guess I'm forced to conclude that Yun Tianming had not fully decoded his own fairy tale. 😆

[@alexgrissom3513]

@@shanesullivan460 LOL that’s fair enough

[@king_halcyon]

​@@alexgrissom3513not really. Trisolaris probably achieved that level of tech within some time and Tianming used it after 3 centuries because that's when Xin arrived to her star to meet him.

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I’ve read 50 scifi books this year… I finally got back into reading as a 30 year old. I can say that this book trilogy is up there with the classics and are serious contenders for my favorite books I read this year. I didn’t think a modern writer would come out on top of all the greats I read this year. Such a hard decision for best scifi book haha

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What are your top pics of these please 😊

[@thegeeeeeeeeee]

@@TheLullabybunny it’s so hard to decide a real favorite. All the books offered something different and every author has their own style. I can tell you the darkest book I read by far was 1984… can’t decide a top book though. The TLDR of authors I read: Asimov, Douglas Adams, Frank Herbert, HG Wells, Orwell, Huxley, Phillip K Dick, Kurt Vonnegut, Ray Bradbury, Arthur C Clarke, Niven, Alfred Bester, William Gibson, Jules Verne, Mary Shelley, Cixin Liu. Still so many books and new authors to try this year. Scifi is the best haha

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@@TheLullabybunny If you’re curious about any author I mentioned I can happily recommend some books to try. 😃

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@@thegeeeeeeeeee yeah just a couple interesting pics of yours would be cool . I just finished an orchestra of minorities , can highly recommend for the writing style and the inclusion of west African cosmology. But I love a space opera so this series I blasted through and want more space and futurism themes Same I got glasses in my 30s and now I can’t stop reading 📖!

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[@valeria-cy4zp]

Great video as always, I love the dissection of this book, it just has so many interesting layers to it. I find it funny how in the show we see how the Trisolaris become afraid of us once they learn through the stories we told them how deceitful we can be and how they are a mirror into what makes us human, and yet they allow Tianming to tell those stories not thinking there could be something hidden in them. Either they were too cocky, thinking to themselves that we are doomed either way and makes no difference, or they just did not care xD This book became a all time, top 5 favorite! Thank you for making these fun videos!

[@leblanc8014]

I think deception was just still just a new concept for them as a species that they had a D&D "forgot" moment. 😂

[@joshualederberg2397]

I was waiting for this video for so long! You're the best Quinn!

[@luizotavio2116]

I LOVE this series so much! I hope the fairy tales are depicted in the netflix show!

[@matheusmterra]

The video I was waiting for! Thank you so much, this was by far the part of the book that puzzled me the most.

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I waited for this video for so long! Thanks! And please more Three Body Problem content 🥰

[@king_halcyon]

I can't imagine how boring a hydropower engineer felt to use his creativity to make so descriptive and wonderful stories that will forever abide in the minds of those who read them.

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Long time watcher! Love the videos man

[@inventist]

Tianming, tell us a fairytale... Huh, why did that monkey paw just give me the finger?

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Thanks!

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[@Ronnie_R87]

I remember that the first time I read the fairytales, I found them boring and wanted them to end so badly and keep going with the main story. Wasn't really getting the point of them. Then, when the thin foil attack started and everything happened, it all clicked and made sense. Brilliant!

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[@bruceleeharrison9284]

I totally forgot about this part of the books. Such a great story!

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[@brijeshpenugonda5172]

Great video Quinn! Needle eye being made to become a part of his own painting reminds me of the idea that once someone uses a dual vector foil they will eventually be forced to a lower dimensional as well.

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I think you meant "Ford Prefect".

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I have been waiting for this video longer than Luo Ji waited for Trisolaris to try somethin' stupid.

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I may be drunk, but i am sure i watched this earlier today

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Trisolaran mind trick. This was done to prevent you from accomplishing anything useful to humanity.

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[@georgecisneros5281]

I suspect this kind of concept points to something I’ve surmised to be the case for a while now. Namely, that “stories”, whether through literature or traditional inheritance, even if they are technically “fiction” (or perhaps especially if they indeed are) are not always or exclusively a means for “entertainment”, but they are just as much so a method for transmitting concrete and accurate truths about either deep history or cosmic scale functions of reality between generations otherwise separated by vast distances of time. As the actually purported “histories” we are presented with by the presumed controlling parties of our era can, and indeed do regularly corrupt or at least “fiddle” with the records we are given access to, and likewise, even just basic loss of clear line of succession when it comes to information preservation, can all lead to decidedly untrustworthy records of one’s true historical reality. Whereas “imbedding” foundational principles into “tropes” and “archetypes” through a narrative (and thus universally “memorizable”) format allows for far more seamless preservation of said information over the passage of time. Just as long as the future generations in question maintain their skill at discerning or “decoding” the primary “bundle” of information “stock” packaged into the succession of messages transmitted to them (i.e. interpreting metaphor). Think of it as the wider scale temporal equivalent of the ancient practice of smoke signaling. In a way.

[@platinumpig]

Thanks for your interpretation of Tianming's fairy tales.

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such a great video about one of the greatest trilogies of all time, any medium

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[@LoveMuse222]

I loved those tales in the book! Thanks for covering this part!! 😁

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[@satyr1349]

Wonderfully made video once again Quinn!

[@jmcloud311]

thank you for making a video about these amazing stories within the story!

[@HouseBlack99]

I feel like the dragon-skin umbrella was a reference to the black domain technology as one of the options for protection against dimension strikes, what Singer calls “slow fog.” Yun Tianming gives a lot of detail on how it must be spun at a specific speed, and a person must spin it nonstop signifying the energy expenditure necessary to maintain a black domain.

[@mrspidey80]

But doesn't Singer chose Trisolaris for cleansing after noticing Slow Fog(only to notice that someone else has beat him to it)? That pretty much confirms that Black Domain is just another indicator of civilization, because a black hole the size of a solar system but not having millions of solar masses, means it has to be artificial.

[@xenn4985]

@@mrspidey80 Yeah an umbrella that doesn't hide you is obviously going to show people looking that you know how to make an umbrella.

[@mategido]

I've been asking for this so much! It would be awesome to hear more about how was Tianming's time on the trissolaran fleet

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[@_Scarlet1]

You know what sucks about the Three-Body Problem story? It’s that if the Trisolarans had just worked with humanity, we could’ve coexisted. Heck, we could’ve probably advanced at a greater pace than we normally would in the story, developed technology to protect ourselves from evil races, and even made a space coalescence with multiple friendly races.

[@r6guy]

Yes, it is an allegory for European colonization from the perspective of the formerly colonized.

[@tungpham102]

It doesn't suck, it's very brilliant from an economics & sociology POV. Read Prisoner's Dilemma in Game Theory and you'll understand why they couldn't work with humanity, similar to the relationships between colonizers and the colonized, or nations during the Cold War. Cooperation is often a dominated strategy, especially in the face of vast uncertainty.

[@smit.shahYT]

It doesn't Suck, it's a literal metaphor to all wars and subjugations by humans, even humans living on the same planet cannot co-exist and are constantly at war, it's the same as saying if the British hadn't colonized and instead had tried to coexist with Asia and other colonies, that's not the reality though, in the end human kind would have subjugated the trisolarans if they had not acted first. A race which views themselves as superior will always seek to subjugate the one it sees as inferior.

[@AKAHimself]

Guys I don't think he means "sucks" as in the it's a bad story but that it's a tragedy. Which as everyone has already point out, yes that's the point.

[@cakesama9770]

Would humans work with a species they deemed inferior considering how we treat our own races?

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Thank you... so nicely explained.

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Brilliant as always

[@goodolarchie]

The biggest and most tragic ones is a powerful being trapping less powerful beings in a lower dimensional state, only for that to eventually come back around on them as well. Painting somebody into a 2D rendering is a nice metaphor for Cixin.

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Oh, wow! That artwork of the fairy tale is so gorgeous!

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Amazing explanations of the stories.

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