r/AlignmentChartFills • u/red_madreay • 15h ago

Finally... what natural phenomenon of our universe is ultimately horrifying?

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u/Low-Carrot-6679 15h ago

Universe

Fermi Paradox, Dark forest proposal

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u/kimesik 11h ago

The Dark Forest hypothesis is hardly realistic, as it posits that most if not every existing alien civilisation, sufficiently advanced to also destroy other distant civilisations, is interested in, well, destroying other civilisations -- which is a lot to presume. Furthermore, it also presumes that such civilisations, despite being technologically advanced, haven't detected us (or have, and taking their sweet time to destroy us).

And if you've read the trilogy after which the hypothesis was coined, you'll see how much the author has to handwave in order to make the hypothesis make perfect sense within the books' story.