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Comment by zenogais

5 months ago

Might just be independent discovery, but the main idea of this blog post is more or less the exact theory advanced in the recent book "The Dark Forest Theory of the Internet" by Bogna Konior (https://www.amazon.com/Dark-Forest-Theory-Internet-Redux/dp/...).

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middayc  5 months ago

Well, I didn't know for this book, so I suspect or hope the exact points that I make won't map to the ones from the book.

It is true that the original "The dark forest" book made an impression on me, so I was thinking about its theories often and trying to apply them to various situations.

  • zenogais  5 months ago

    Yeah, I fully believe independent invention by mapping "the dark forest" onto the internet is very possible.

    • hrimfaxi  5 months ago

      The irony is that it undermines the premise. Multiple people independently arriving at the same conclusions means that you can hide your ideas from the dark forest but that won't stop them from being uncovered.

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spopejoy  5 months ago

I'm hoping the meme goes away. Internet is a dark forest, crypto DEXes are a dark forest, AI is a dark forest. Add the obligatory gloss of Cixin Liu (DF is only one of many amazing concepts in TBP but apparently the only bloggable one). Hard sci-fi references sound smart but in the end don't describe society very well.