Culture Becomes a Dark Forest - by Erik Hoel
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“Wallfacing” to solve Navier-Stokes
The metaphor of a “dark forest” comes from Liu Cixin’s The Three-Body Problem trilogy, which is the best sci-fi released in China, or frankly anywhere else, in the past two decades. Unfortunately, all the interesting Chinese-specific aspects were butchered in the ham-fisted American TV adaptation, stripped of its slow intellectualism and civilizational scale (try the vastly superior original Chinese adaptation, which you can find on Amazon).1 In the second book of the trilogy, The Dark Forest, Liu reveals the true nature of the book’s universe: The universe is a dark forest. Every…
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