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abtinf
155 days ago
Why not just credit the dark forest for this idea?
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CamperBob2
154 days ago
The idea wasn't Cixin's. E.g.,
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Alan-Penny/publication/...
refers to speculation as early as 1967 that it might not be a good idea to answer that particular phone.
Here's a later article from 2010:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00945...
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detritus
154 days ago
Perhaps because the concept's been knocking around for decades before it was published?
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Here's a later article from 2010: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00945...