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Once it is established there is a safe way to roam around and do construction logistics the dark forest hypothesis doesn't make much sense. A real advanced civilisation would have detectable honeypot decoy dyson spheres all over the place just as an intelligence gathering tool to see if anybody will actually come after them and with what.

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Its an interesting question; if you're an aggressor and see a 'low tech' civilisation recklessly build an obvious Dyson sphere what probability do you put that its a honeypot from a real threat... and so on.

I personally find the dark forest interesting not because I think it is likely but because even giving it a very small probability of being true would be enough for near immortal high tech civilisations to move very cautiously.

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