Was revisiting the dark forest theory of the internet and realized why it feels off to me: the metaphor applies much better to the pre-internet world or ideally the pre-Gutenberg age
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Like, a revealing example I found in some V.S. Naipaul book was that the Mughal Emperor Jahangir (1567, 1627) had apparently not heard of the discovery of America.
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