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What's your Sci-Fi unpopular opinion?
(kbin.social)
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My big dislike of the Three Body Problem is somewhat meta. The Fermi Paradox solution that it presents, the Dark Forest hypothesis, only "works" in the books because the author made up a bunch of magic technologies and just-so scenarios to make it work. But ever since then /r/Fermiparadox has been overrun with "what about the Dark Forest??" shower thoughts.
I guess it's not so much a problem I have with the Three Body Problem as it is a problem I have with humanity in general.
Arguably it doesn't work in-universe, either, as proven by the fact that... well, it literally doesn't work, the dark forest is plenty bright by the time it all gets wrapped up.
From a western perspective the idea that the entire planet would successfully suppress a Dune-style disapora because "either we all make it or none of us does" also seems absurd, but it's not just a humanity prerequisite for the plot, it's a universal prerequisite for the dark forest, at least if the technology rollout is somewhat plausible.
Also, see above my point about Star Trek under the Prime Directive technically being a dark forest. Which is a funny meme, but also makes just as much sense as the TBP solution.
But hey, it's fun to think about for a minute and not that much wonkier than the Foundation or Dune takes on the same scale of problems. Except perhaps the slightly harder sci-fi approach making people take it more seriously than it deserves.