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Beyond the dark forest theory of the internet

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Two weeks ago I sent an email about the dark forest theory of the internet. I used the dark forest theory to explain why we’re afraid to be public online, and what we could be losing as a result. I first connected the dark forest theory and the internet

Two weeks ago I sent an email about the dark forest theory of the internet . I used the dark forest theory to explain why we’re afraid to be public online, and what we could be losing as a result. I first connected the dark forest theory and the internet earlier this year when I had a strange realization: that I knew how to be myself in real life, but I didn’t know how to be myself on the internet. In “real life” I’m a reasonably self-confident, forty-year-old human. If we sat next to each other on a plane, chances are we’d have a good-to-memorable conversation. But on the internet, I’m a teen

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