Dark Forest shows how advanced cryptography can be used in a game—and how blockchains might host decentralized digital worlds. Start exploring in Dark Forest, and you quickly realize just how ...

The Dark Forest theory, explained. The chilling theory depicted in the Netflix series ‘3 Body Problem’ is just one explanation for our lack of encounters with extraterrestrial intelligence.

The interesting thing is that the dark forest theory is almost certainly wrong. Or at least, it is wrong in our universe. It sets up a scenario in which there is a Darwinian process of natural ...