DarkForestSim: A Netlogo Simulation of the Dark Forest Hypothesis
The premise of the DFH is just so bizzare. Essentially godlike aliens go around killing other aliens for hell of it. It&#x27;S fOr SeLf ProTeCtIoN! Please. If you&#x27;re a godlike alien, you don&#x27;t actually have to care about anyone else. Hell, not only do you actually have to deal with intergalactic distances, we&#x27;re talking about a plan that requires at this point quadrillions of individuals to be dedicated to <i>multiple</i> 100,000 year plans of preêmptive genocide against literally unknown civilizations.<p>I&#x27;m sorry. But I&#x27;m not supposed to suspend disbelief for serious discussions.<p>The older I get, the more I find these debates as tedious as medieval demonologists wondering about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin, and who is the fifth viscount of the third circle of Hell, and just what exactly is his bailiwick.