Do We Live in a Dark Forest?

Why is the universe so quiet?

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“Dark forest theory” holds that civilizations fear one another so much that they don’t dare to reveal themselves lest they immediately be considered a potential threat and destroyed.

The dark forest theory comes from a popular sci fi series “Remembrance of Earth’s Past” written by Liu Cixin. It posits that the reason that we haven’t made contact with ET’s…