Ah... the "Dark Forest Theory". People really put way too much unnecessary time on it. If the theory was true, then the first thing those "tree-body man" would

Ah... the "Dark Forest Theory". People really put way too much unnecessary time on it. If the theory was true, then the first thing those "tree-body man" would reasonably do is to just destroy the solar system straight away with that super illegal (to the law of physics) raindrop probe. A civilization with the intention of discover and kill will definitely make their probes efficient kill devices, right? Why pay the expense of identify and kill the "Key actors" one by one when you can delete a entire system for cheap? Just turn the probe into a blackhole to kill the sun, it should be easy if the probe was really that dense. A more direct attack is rooted in the theory itself: for the theory to be true, a state/condition called 猜疑连 (Chain Of Suspicion) must be created. The content of Chain Of Suspicion is simple: - A civilization cannot determine if another civilization is evil - A civilization cannot determine if other civilizations will view itself as evil - A civilization cannot determine if another civilization will launch an attack against it - A civilization cannot determine if itself is evil - A civilization cannot determine if another civilization view themself as evil - A civilization cannot determine if another civilization will treat itself in such way that been determined unevil - ... ... (The article that I quoted from has this at the last line: https://wiki.mbalib.com/wiki/%E9%BB%91%E6%9A%97%E6%A3%AE%E6%9E%97%E6%B3%95%E5%88%99#.E5.8F.B6.E6.96.87.E6.B4.81.E6.8F.90.E5.87.BA.E7.9A.84.E2.80.9C.E5.9F.BA.E6.9C.AC.E5.85.AC.E7.90.86.E2.80.9D.E5.92.8C.E4.B8.A4.E5.A4.A7.E9.87.8D.E8.A6.81.E6.A6.82.E5.BF.B5) Have you see the hole here? For a civilization that advanced, what are the chances that they're not equipped with also advanced social and science knowledge and skills? Heck, their advanced probe could probably even do all the observation and tests fully automatically and report the result back. The Chain Of Suspicion will never form to begin with because they CAN determine the facts if they really wants to. And then so the Dark Forest will never form too (at least not for the advanced side). Now, let's talk about some serious thing. Because I've noticed some people uses the Dark Forest Theory to explain the relation between nations (yes, Earth nations). So it is really important to realize that the entire theory is nothing more than a plot device that Liu Cixin employed for his novel, among many other plots. Most of them are there to make the story more convenient, instead of more logical (as I have said, based on the theory, the logical thing to do is to wipe everything out at contact, how convenient that the probe "JuST cAnT" huh?). So, if the theory inspired you do to something good, then nice, go ahead, have a good life, help people, communticate with others, try to understand others, have fun. However, if you believe the "Dark Forest Theory" is THE true governing rule of the universe, then you probably overthink it too much, stop it, it's not healthy. And guess what, the planet we're living on hosts multiple civilizations, you stick with us now no matter what.