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The dark forest hypothesis is distinct from the Berserker hypothesis in that under the former, many alien civilizations could still exist provided they keep silent. The former can be viewed as a special case of the latter, if the deadly probes are (e.g. due to resource scarcity) only sent to star systems that show signs of intelligent life. [8]
The Dark Forest (Chinese: 黑暗森林) is a 2008 science fiction novel by the Chinese writer Liu Cixin.It is the sequel to the Hugo Award-winning novel The Three-Body Problem in the trilogy formally titled Remembrance of Earth's Past (colloquially referred to by Chinese readers by the title of the first novel). [1]
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 27 January 2025. Problem of the lack of evidence for alien life despite its apparent likelihood This article is about the absence of clear evidence of extraterrestrial life. For a type of estimation problem, see Fermi problem. Enrico Fermi (Los Alamos 1945) The Fermi paradox is the discrepancy between ...
The Berserker hypothesis is distinct from the dark forest hypothesis in that under the latter, many alien civilizations could still exist provided they keep silent. The dark forest hypothesis can be viewed as a special case of the Berserker hypothesis, if the 'deadly Berserker probes' are (e.g. due to resource scarcity) only sent to star ...
Dark forest hypothesis – Hypothesis for why alien life has not been discovered; Doomsday argument – Doomsday scenario on human births; Drake equation – Estimate of extraterrestrial civilizations; Anthropic principle – Hypothesis about sapient life and the universe; Global catastrophic risk – Hypothetical global-scale disaster risk
The Dark Forest, a novel by Hugh Walpole; Dark Forest, afterlife in the Warriors series by Erin Hunter; Dark Forest, themed area at the Alton Towers Resort; darkforest, a Go playing computer program being developed by Facebook; Dark forest hypothesis, a solution to the Fermi paradox that states that civilizations remain silent to prevent ...
Whenever Blues found an email address for someone who had worked on a Sonic game -- any Sonic game -- they would overwhelm them with messages. (Some people got phone calls, too.) "Someone would track down someone who originally worked on Sonic 2, like a level artist," said James Hansen, a Sonic fan from the Forest of Dean, near Gloucester ...
The Dark Forest, published in 2008, introduced the dark forest hypothesis based on Thomas Hobbes' description of the "natural condition of mankind", [27] although the underlying concept dates back to "First Contact". [28]