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The Guiding Principle in Geopolitics is the "Dark Forest Theory"

Started by Black Death, April 24, 2020, 11:53:30 AM

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Doktor Howl

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The argument's premise had colonizing aliens running away from chaos in the first place.

LMNO

It's fascinating that a person will make a claim in some area of knowledge, and hold that claim as true, even though they have done little to no research into other models or theories in that area of knowledge.

They will not even briefly look at Wikipedia to get a rough understanding of other models.  Like, this person could have googled "Hobbes", seen "social contract theory" and then spun a line of bullshit dismissing it in favor of Dark Forest.

I mean, they'd still be wrong, but there'd be at least an attempt at rigor.

The Wizard Joseph

Quote from: LMNO on April 27, 2020, 02:39:24 PM
It's fascinating that a person will make a claim in some area of knowledge, and hold that claim as true, even though they have done little to no research into other models or theories in that area of knowledge.

They will not even briefly look at Wikipedia to get a rough understanding of other models.  Like, this person could have googled "Hobbes", seen "social contract theory" and then spun a line of bullshit dismissing it in favor of Dark Forest.

I mean, they'd still be wrong, but there'd be at least an attempt at rigor.

The trolls these days are mostly lazy and fragile poseurs with no understanding of the SACRIFICE necessary in practicing the Ars Discordia. is sad.
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ew, dark enlightenment style bullshit. If we are going to posit hostile aliens I greatly prefer the idea that intelligence creates hostility, which was well examined by a sci fi author whose name I am blanking.  He wrote a very good book about aliens coming to attack because consciousness was a hostile meme to them, the idea of the self.  I don't agree with his hypothesis, but he at least made it interesting, unlike this guy.