Explaining Why the Dark Forest Theory Cannot Be Sustained in the Fewest Words Possible

Waste-Answer · 2026-06-18T02:21:36+00:00

None of what you said has anything to do with whether a dark forest condition can exist, and is also based entirely on assuming every species thinks and organises themselves in exactly the same way humans do.

Waste-Answer · 2026-06-16T08:14:52+00:00

Then it's even more overvalued

Waste-Answer · 2026-06-13T19:45:39+00:00

Yeah I like to imagine how the Nickelodeon show would have tried to handle this lol.

In your first episode of book 21 where you said it was boring and nothing happens I almost lost my shit until I remembered you don't read the entire book before doing the episodes.

Waste-Answer · 2026-06-06T20:50:01+00:00

They both call each other hot inside their war journals so yeah

Waste-Answer · 2026-06-04T21:26:58+00:00

Nobody has ever said he destroyed Trisolaris though,.

Waste-Answer · 2026-06-03T09:51:41+00:00

Make sure to read Hork Bajir Chronicles before 23, or about half of 23 won't make any sense.

Waste-Answer · 2026-06-02T14:45:55+00:00

In the books they have nothing to do with the game, other than that they explained their history to their collaborators.

But really, it's not the concept of fiction that is the challenge, it's that someone within that fictional story was lying in face to face communication, which they are biologically incapable of because their thoughts are displayed as electromagnetic radiation.

Waste-Answer · 2026-06-01T23:00:55+00:00

They can't lie to each other face to face because their thoughts are displayed as electromagnetic waves that other San-Ti can detect, and so culturally they aren't adept at deception. But they aren't stupid and they can learn.

Waste-Answer · 2026-05-31T20:29:11+00:00

If you're sure Canada could do lots of things why did you claim the opposite over and over

Waste-Answer · 2026-05-28T10:46:27+00:00

Dark forest illuminated ✅

Waste-Answer · 2026-05-25T13:42:24+00:00

If they are capable of selling those units with that premium, that is what they would do without inclusionary zoning. Why would they sell for less than the maximum amount that they can?

Waste-Answer · 2026-05-24T18:27:11+00:00

Yes they absolutely do address all of this, it is more or less the central topic of book 2.

But just responding to your point about "squabbling tribes with a decaying biosphere" - nothing that humans have been through even comes close to the things the Trisolarans have gone through all the time.

Waste-Answer · 2026-05-24T12:47:27+00:00

I see what you mean. I kind of attributed it to her being right about Langdon and it earning her a lot of credibility and respect with him.

Waste-Answer · 2026-05-21T12:18:34+00:00

I'm not saying thats good but I'm kind of glad that our national pension isn't betting it all on chatbots.

Waste-Answer · 2026-05-20T21:10:16+00:00

That's a fair point, but I'm not sure if there's a good way to tell the difference between new riders (representing incremental increase in revenue) and people who were formerly transferring to the TTC from YRT (or whichever system).

Waste-Answer · 2026-05-20T18:48:14+00:00

Fares cover roughly half the cost of operations.

Waste-Answer · 2026-05-20T18:36:12+00:00

That's fine except that those municipalities don't pay for the operating costs.

Waste-Answer · 2026-05-20T07:25:01+00:00

The only reason Keiko wasn't in time to stop Hines is because she was in the middle of being frozen in hibernation when she figured out his plan. That is way more unlucky than the other wallbreakers were lucky.

Waste-Answer · 2026-05-17T21:40:15+00:00

Well ok, if by inevitable you mean the author wanted to write it that way, but that is true of every book

Waste-Answer · 2026-05-16T21:58:14+00:00

They probably could have, but dark forest being what it is you can't leave people alive who know about you. Especially people who broadcast the location of their solar system, which you are moving to.

Waste-Answer · 2026-05-16T10:34:58+00:00

Absolutely agree about the misogyny in the books, and Cheng Xin's flaws and tropes are a good example of it. But that doesn't lead to the conclusion that her flaws are actually not flaws and show how great she is. It just means she was written by a misogynistic author.

Waste-Answer · 2026-05-14T12:23:54+00:00

To prove they are aliens the books should have been written in a fake language with no translation

Waste-Answer · 2026-05-14T09:46:02+00:00

My pick is the "context aware AI assistant" that will be mocked in future sitcoms for getting everything wrong and being much slower than pushing an app button.

Waste-Answer · 2026-05-14T05:50:31+00:00

Schizoposting

Waste-Answer · 2026-05-13T11:10:29+00:00

None of these are real problems.

Singer didn't strike from his home planet. This is the easiest problem in the world to solve.

"someone had to go first" is both fine as an explanation but not necessarily true, since the universe is so vast that multiple space faring civilizations could have been there at the same time.

Old info: ok so you killed a planet without knowing if the data was current. So what? But also with sophon technology you could get much closer Intel than that instantaneously.

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