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Three-Body Problem and the Dark Forest: Game Theory at Cosmic Scale

cknox · March 18, 2026 · 1 min read

Liu Cixin’s dark forest hypothesis isn’t just fiction. It’s a rigorous application of game theory to the Fermi paradox.

The universe is not empty because civilizations destroy themselves. It is silent because civilizations that speak are destroyed by those that listen.

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