See, I thought the whole Dark Forest theory was flawed. The reasoning is sound, but it is based on flawed assumptions. Indefinite unchecked exponential growth really doesn’t happen in nature, so it’s strange to assume that all life in the Universe will exhibit it. It also assumes the ability to detect species coincides with the ability to blow up their solar system.
The final problem is that if it were true, we should be dead already. The dinosaurs should have been detectable by the changes in the atmospheric concentrations (which would cause spectrum shifts when viewed through a telescope), and there has been ample time for a supposedly logical alien race to wipe us out. After all, one of the assumptions is that the technological explosion can happen at any time, so you need to wipe out the other solar systems at the first sign of life.
In the end it just doesn’t make sense.
