• Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    3 body problem is a good book for thought experiments, but it didn’t really discuss the arguments against the dark forest hypothesis

    • assumes universal hostility.

    • Interstellar warfare is protracted and impractical.

    • Ignores potential cooperation and ethical diversity.

    • assumes aliens think like humans

    • ericwdhs@discuss.online
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      4 hours ago

      Regarding the first point, I think it just assumes the possibility for hostility, not the universality of it. If there’s a room with a thousand people and I know one person in the room has a gun and wants to kill me, I’m still going to hesitate to enter regardless of the 999.

      Also, any intelligence that arises out of evolution is going to have at least the rough concept of violence.