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The Dark Forest Theory of the Internet
Is our universe an empty forest or a dark one? If it’s a dark forest, then only Earth is foolish enough to ping the heavens and announce its presence. The rest of the universe already knows the real reason why the forest stays dark. It’s only a matter of time before the Earth learns as well.
Yancey Strickler • The Dark Forest Theory of the Internet
On the “Dead Internet Theory” — there’s a Quora bot that is using GPT to answer popular questions. It pulled a face from the site “This Person Does Not Exist,” and it has 1 million views in the last month. The weird thing, there aren’t even any financial incentives to doing this, there’s just a certain fetish to automate because we can. Eventually,
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This is also what the internet is becoming: a dark forest.
In response to the ads, the tracking, the trolling, the hype, and other predatory behaviors, we’re retreating to our dark forests of the internet, and away from the mainstream.
This very email is an example of this. This theory is being shared on a private channel sent to 500 people who I kno... See more
In response to the ads, the tracking, the trolling, the hype, and other predatory behaviors, we’re retreating to our dark forests of the internet, and away from the mainstream.
This very email is an example of this. This theory is being shared on a private channel sent to 500 people who I kno... See more