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Yancey Strickler

Yancey Strickler

·May 20, 2019

The Dark Forest Theory of the Internet

This is also what the internet is becoming: a dark forest — 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…

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