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Re:SETI Home Flags 100 Signals After Sorting 12B Others by abtinf on Friday January 16, 2026 @12:37AM (#46643337)
Why not just credit the dark forest for this idea?
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Re:SETI Home Flags 100 Signals After Sorting 12B Others by detritus on Friday January 16, 2026 @06:35AM (#46645424)
Perhaps because the concept's been knocking around for decades before it was published?
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Re:SETI Home Flags 100 Signals After Sorting 12B Others by CamperBob2 on Friday January 16, 2026 @10:14AM (#46647174)
The idea wasn't Cixin's. E.g., https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Alan-Penny/publication/... refers to speculation as early as 1967 that it might not be a good idea to answer that particular phone.

Here's a later article from 2010: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00945...

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