Evil Alien Empires? No!
An Optimistic Vision for Expansion into Space
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13 min readFeb 23, 2023
In his 2008 science fiction novel The Dark Forest, acclaimed author Lui Cixin offered a disturbing and simple explanation for why we haven’t detected intelligent alien life. It states that only one intelligent alien species exists, exterminating all others as they emerge. Let’s call that species The Predator.
