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The title reminded me of the sci-fi novel The Dark Forest, where potential alien invaders could read all human communication accept of human mind. The UN select
by perfunctory 7y ago
The title reminded me of the sci-fi novel The Dark Forest, where potential alien invaders could read all human communication accept of human mind. The UN selects four men to be "Wallfacers". Each one of them is supposed to devise a defence strategy known only to himself and they are granted access to UN resources to carry out the plans.
- ausbah 7y agoWhat's also worth noting about the Wallfacers is how for 3/4 of them, the aliens and their human supporters were still able to figure out their "inaccessible plans" simply by deducing from their actions. In some ways it feels like a waste to try and directly read the mind when humans can be pretty well predicted by their outside thoughts alone.