“The dark forest hypothesis is the idea that many alien civilizations exist throughout the universe, but are both silent and paranoid. In this framing, it is presumed that any space-faring civilization would view any other intelligent life as an inevitable threat, and thus destroy any nascent life that makes its presence known”
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This kind of stuff ends up making me think about how smart dolphins and african gray parrots are. They're like sooo intelligent but i can't ever see them making spaceships. Probably so many intelligent species have come and gone across spans of time in the universe. Actually, our neighbor Venus was a paradise at one point so maybe we had intelligent fish there too.