No, The Internet Is Not A ‘Dark Forest’

Michael Donaldson cites Yancey Strickler’s attempt to use Liu Cixin’s “dark forest” as a descriptive model of the internet, so I’m required to note (as I did when Om Malik did the same) that Strickler got the metaphor wrong. Maybe it’s my autistic cognitive rigidity, but I just can’t let this one go. Stickler’s use of the “dark forest” doesn’t understand what Liu was saying, and I wish people would stop repeating him.