Artificial Intelligence Searches for Extraterrestrial Intelligence

Re:Artificial Intelligence Searches for Extraterrestrial Int... by operatingthetan on Tuesday March 28, 2023 @03:01AM (#35336915)

I said posting the link, not mentioning the title. The "theory" is named after the book. The wikipedia article was added in October 2022 and is mostly just modeled after Cixin Liu's use of the theory. From one of the citations:

>This particular proposed resolution to Fermi’s Paradox question is a very recent addition. It takes its name from the novel The Dark Forest by famed Chinese science fiction writer Liu Cixin.

So the title of a book wasn't a spoiler for itself.

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Re:Artificial Intelligence Searches for Extraterrestrial Int... by alanbernstein on Tuesday March 28, 2023 @01:14PM (#35344451)

> The "theory" is named after the book

You know, that's what I previously thought, but the article says the hypothesis has been around in some form since the 80s, so I figured it wasn't a huge spoiler. The article directly contradicts your source quote (science fiction versions section).

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