[elbigbad]

I don’t know who Yancy is but they have some complete lack of shame to steal someone else’s idea almost word for word and prepend their name to it. I don’t know what I could muster that absolute “I don’t care at all what people think of me” if I tried, and I have here and there I just don’t have it in me.

[speed_spread]

Found it in 3 seconds flat. RTFA and Carry On:

https://onezero.medium.com/the-dark-forest-theory-of-the-int...

[axioms_End]

You mean Liu Cixin, that Yancy mentions in the first sentence of his essay about Dark Forest of Internet, or someone else?

[elbigbad]

Cixin Liu of course. Now let me tell you about “elbigbad’s Theory of Relativity” (hat tip to Einstein who had a hand in its development). More modernly phrased: “‘You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take’ -Wayne Gretzky” - Michael Scott

[e12e]

He (Yancey) doesn't:

https://onezero.medium.com/the-dark-forest-theory-of-the-int...

> In his sci-fi trilogy The Three Body Problem, author Liu Cixin presents the dark forest theory of the universe. (...)

[tomtheelder]

Liu Cixin certainly didn’t create the concept! It’s a long standing conjecture that he wrote a novel about and provided a new name for. Whoever “Yancy” is has done nothing wrong- certainly nothing more than Liu. They even attribute to Liu in the first sentence! No reason for outrage here.

[wffurr]

And apply it to The Internet instead of the galaxy, with due credit given.