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tbh I think it’s a great theme / genre because you get to use the uncanny / inhuman aspects of AI generated images as an enhancement / ultimate goal instead of trying to cover it up
tbh I think it’s a great theme / genre because you get to use the uncanny / inhuman aspects of AI generated images as an enhancement / ultimate goal instead of trying to cover it up
tbh if i were a dark forest space entity, i wouldn’t destroy the entire population of earth; only most of the humans. i would keep some of the humans i found most enjoyable, like 0.00002% of them, along with let most other creatures continue while eradicating mosquitoes and ticks and such. need a few humans to explain any earth stuff id be curious about. but ya i could totally see dark forest. it isnt like id let humans spread to other planets and infest them too :) tbh where do i sign up to be a dark forest alien? new goal of what i want to be when i grow up
new fav concept ty so much!
edit: would also sterilize those remaining few humans.
Ursula K. Le Guin had a story published in 1971 about a conscious vegetation wholly covering a planet and what happens when humans arrive ☞ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaster_than_Empires_and_More_Slow
ps
i get that the forest in the “dark forest” is not a forest
tbh i dont really consider those humans because they did not try to colonize the world, set up factories, harvest the natural resources, place the plant in a ‘reservation’, and maximize their profit while attempting to maintain control of those under them. On the wiki i didn’t even notice the concept of profit at all. Beside the nonbelievable humans pretty nice story tho.
tho i’ve always believed a world in perfect harmony should still be able to defend itself from unknown future events if required and it seems the plant did not adequately invest resources in growing this path.
overall, were I a dark forest entity, I would not eat the plant because it seems to be stably on it’s own world, refining it in to perfection; not a species that wrecks it’s own world while with a drive to spread to other worlds infinitely.