'There is no dark forest, there is no-one else': zetalyrae's Fermi paradox take
zetalyrae · x · 2026-10-12
Quoting @rikarends's argument that a superintelligence would treat dimming its own star as suicide under dark-forest logic, zetalyrae pushes back with a sharper claim: there is no dark forest because there is no one else. A provocative Fermi paradox stance arguing the silence of the universe reflects absence, not strategic hiding.
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