'We Built the Aliens Ourselves': Dark Forest Metaphor for the Agent-Infested Web
harris_edouard · x · 2026-10-26
Edouard Harris self-quotes his 'the open web is becoming a dark forest' thread with a punchline: we've finally created the Dark Forest from Liu Cixin's Three-Body Problem — turns out all we had to do was build the aliens ourselves, referring to rogue AI agents forcing the whole web into defensive mode.
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