The derivation of the law of dark forests is based on two basic axioms in "Social Sociology".

1. Survival is the first need of civilization.

2. Civilization is growing and expanding, but the total amount of matter in the universe remains basically unchanged.

The above two points are to some extent, but it is too ridiculous to deduce the "Law of Dark Forest" based on these two points alone.

"There are 300 billion known galaxies in the current universe. Each galaxy contains a number of stars ranging from hundreds of millions to hundreds of trillions. Such a massive number of stars cannot be insufficient resources at all. The galaxies that have been effectively developed may be less than one hundred thousand."

"The universe is big, life is bigger!"

Dr. Heng said: "A mononuclear cell is placed in a sea. If the cell divides every half hour, then three days later, the entire sea will be filled with such cells! Exponential growth is a demon. In front of this demon, no matter how much resources are, it cannot meet the needs of this demon!"

"This algorithm is correct, but the actual situation is: even if you give this cell three months, it and its offspring will not be able to fill the entire ocean. The existence of other variables will have a huge impact on this theoretical model. No matter what species it is, the increase in population will be from the exponential curve and eventually smooth out when the living space cannot synchronize the exponential increase... There is no civilization that can grow and expand infinitely."

"But it always needs to expand, right? This civilization needs to expand, and that civilization also needs to. The total amount of resources remains unchanged, and they all need to expand. Will there be no conflict?"

"The possibility of conflict exists, but there is a prerequisite that only when both civilizations expand to the maximum boundary and cannot expand anymore can war break out. There are very few intelligent civilizations in the Milky Way, and the interval between each intelligent civilization is very empty. There are a large number of material buffers and unbordered lands. Before these unbordered resources are fully developed, it is unlikely that two civilizations will start a war for unbordered resources. According to the first come first served principle, they will increase their efforts to explore."

"And in history, there has never been such a war - a country that has not yet conquered the nearby wilderness, has traveled thousands of miles to occupy another country."

Yun Xinghe said again: "Besides, war has the logic of war. Two civilizations that have never met each other will destroy each other, or die together just because they are close to each other, or they discover each other's existence. This kind of thing has almost never happened in history. War does not necessarily mean destruction. War may also be conquest, fusion, and unification... Even if all the intelligent lives of the other party's civilization are turned into slaves, it is unlikely that they will massacre them all."

"Of course, it cannot be completely denied that there have been many massacres in the history of some civilizations. This is caused by the gap in strength and weakness, or it may be caused by the large gap in weapon generation. The gap in military strength too much will indeed lead to the complete disappearance of the weak."

"But if both sides have the same technical level and have a hunting rifle with similar attack power, slaughtering is a stupid act, which will only arouse stronger resistance and will only bring more heavy losses to yourself."

"You have admitted that there was a massacre. Isn't this the embodiment of the law of the Dark Forest? What's wrong with this?"

Dr. Heng said that Yun Xinghe himself has proved the correct side of this rule, how could he be wrong?

Yun Xinghe shook his head:

"The fault is that this rule is too narrow. It roughly compares the competition between civilizations to a life-and-death zero-sum game. In fact, the solution to conflict is not only war, and the role of diplomacy cannot be ignored! If a civilization does not establish a complete diplomatic system, it will be difficult for this civilization to get out of the cradle. Even if it moves to the interstellar era, such extreme civilizations will either die in war or become the ultimate winner in war, and all civilizations will be conquered and eliminated by it."

"The law of the Dark Forest is actually to completely erase the diplomatic attributes in civilization, and choose not to trust, accept, and not contact everything around you. Arbitrarily regards different civilizations in the universe as different players in a killing game, except to kill each other, there is nothing else..."

"In fact, if all civilizations follow the so-called laws of dark forests, the prospects of this universe and this galaxy will be unimaginable."

but……

After explaining so much, Dr. Heng still shook his head:

"Don't believe in any civilization, nor do you interact with other civilizations! The law of the Dark Forest tells us: every civilization has no good intentions and must be vigilant."

"Do you come here with kindness?"

Dr. Heng asked.

Yun Xinghe choked.

this……

How can you continue to communicate if you are so stubborn?

This Dr. Heng has been completely brainwashed by the so-called "Law of Dark Forest".

"Grandpa, do you still know what view the wise captain used to defeat the 'Law of Dark Forest'? Tell me quickly, how to defeat him?"

"The captain seemed to have proposed three positive laws, namely the law of war, the law of competition, and what other laws are there, yes, the moral laws! These three laws are the swords that stabbed the laws of the dark forest... I am not very clear about the specific content of these three laws, but you can raise a paradox, a paradox that cannot be answered and immediately shaken."

"What paradox?" Yun Xinghe asked hurriedly.

"Since there is only destruction among civilizations, so far, why has the Three-Eyed Man not destroyed the Ear-Speed ​​Man, and why has the Blue Star Federation not destroyed the Three-Eyed Man immediately?"

"yes!"

Yun Xinghe's eyes lit up and immediately retelled the question to Dr. Heng: "Since you know the existence of the laws of the Dark Forest, why didn't you kill all the Erqi Stars? And we came to your home, but why didn't you immediately destroy you?"

"Because the Erqi people have become our slaves, and there is no threat to slaves."

Dr. Heng thought for a while, then looked at Yun Xinghe and said, "As for you not destroying us, it is because... you also want to enslave us!"

"Okay! If we were enslaving you and you three-eyed people became slaves, do you recognize it and think that we will destroy you?" Yun Xinghe asked again.

"It shouldn't be...we still have value."

"Okay! Similarly, if higher civilizations also have the technology and strength to enslave other civilizations, and those lower civilizations have certain value in utilization and can become slaves without threats, do you think these higher civilizations will travel thousands of miles to specifically destroy the slaves in their eyes?"

"this……"

A click.

In Dr. Heng's heart, something extremely strong broke and a subtle crack was created.

Then, the cracks widened and spread, and with a clamor, the solid thing turned into pieces all over the ground.

"Yes, since higher civilizations have highly developed technology, how could they travel thousands of miles to eliminate those slaves that are not threatening? The weak are always afraid of the strong, but what are the thoughts in the minds of the strong? How could the weak know?"

After all, an elephant will value a cheetah, but how can it care about the ants under its feet?

The biggest mistake of the law of the Dark Forest is to compare all civilizations to "hunters" with guns, and put all civilizations on the same level. This is actually very inappropriate. In fact, it should be compared to lions, tigers, eagles, wolves, rabbits, sheep, snakes, rats, and ants - this is actually more appropriate.

As for the stars, planets and other resources in the universe, they are like grasslands and forests in nature, which are the stages for these animals to grow, reproduce, compete and play.

The prey on the weak is eternal, but a lion will not appear, killing all animals in the forest; an elephant will not appear, traveling thousands of miles to step on an ant's nest.

Therefore, the reason why a civilization is restricted is never technical backwardness, but narrow-mindedness.

"Ants know that they are weak is not scary. What is scary is that the ant's vision will always be as wide as their own... No matter how weak it is, if any civilization does not have the broad vision as wide as an elephant and does not have the big heart as big as an elephant, he will never grow to the level of an elephant!"
Chapter completed!