The Dark Forest Theory of the Internet | by Yancey Strickler | OneZero
archive.today webpage capture Saved from history←priornext→ 27 Jun 2023 03:22:37 UTC All snapshots from host onezero.medium.com WebpageScreenshot sharedownload .zipreport bug or abuseBuy me a coffee Write Sign up Sign In Member-only story The Dark Forest Theory of the Internet This is also what the internet is becoming: a dark forest Yancey Strickler · Follow Published in OneZero · 6 min read · May 20, 2019 17.5K 85 Photo by Rosie Fraser on Unsplash In his sci-fi trilogy The Three Body Problem, author Liu Cixin presents the dark forest theory of the universe. When we look out into space, the theory goes, we’re struck by its silence. It seems like we’re the only ones here. After all, if other forms of life existed, wouldn’t they show themselves? Since they haven’t, we assume there’s no one else out there. Liu invites us to think about this a different way. Imagine a dark forest at night. It’s deathly quiet. Nothing moves. Nothing stirs. This could lead one to assume that the forest
archive.today webpage capture Saved from history←priornext→ 27 Jun 2023 03:22:37 UTC All snapshots from host onezero.medium.com WebpageScreenshot sharedownload .zipreport bug or abuseBuy me a coffee Write Sign up Sign In Member-only story The Dark Forest Theory of the Internet This is also what the internet is becoming: a dark forest Yancey Strickler · Follow Published in OneZero · 6 min read · May 20, 2019 17.5K 85 Photo by Rosie Fraser on Unsplash In his sci-fi trilogy The Three Body Problem, author Liu Cixin presents the dark forest theory of the universe. When we look out into space,
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