[musingsole]

But that's missing the GP's forest for the trees (pun intended). Liu Cixin's work popularized the theory and phrasing by a massive amount both in comparison to the works that came before and as well as after.

The core point seems to be the flippant assignment of origination irrespective of the scale of contributions.

[marcellus23]

How is that not just as flippant an “assignment of origination”? Regardless of how Liu Cixin might have written the most popular treatment of the theory, he did not come up with it, and stood on the shoulders of many others who developed the idea over decades. I have no problem with giving him credit for popularizing the idea but calling it “Liu Cixin’s Dark Forest” is going too far.

[salawat]

Everyone knows the real originator of the Dark Forest theory was Chet, more specifically his cat.

(For those who haven't read Xtreme Programming, Chet would stumble into meetings that had degenerated into unproductive fingerpointing, and exclaim "Woops! My fault. WTF are we gonna do to fix it?", Even if he had nothing to do with it

Everything. Bad. Is. Chet's. Fault.

Also, anything good, is solely the work of Chet's cat.

Embracing this truth has greatly simplified my life.

If Chet did not, in fact, have a cat, then I must have fallen into another alternate universe again. Replace the animal in question with whatever you deem most appropriate.