Spite, Gender, and the Hawk-Dove Games in The Three-Body Problem Trilogy
摘要
The Three-Body Problem Trilogy presents a dystopian world that revolutionizes the traditional cosmic order and the Chinese gender division of labor. A political crisis motivates a female scientist to champion extraterrestrial dictatorship. A prolonged climate crisis prompts the Trisolaran civilization to attack Earth. To survive, humans invent dictatorial positions to game the system, leaving the fate of everyone in the hands of a few hawkish or dove-like individuals. On the interplanetary level, a prolonged interstellar war means that aliens will launch dimensional attacks to spite other planets. In the world of Liu Cixin, the fall of the Solar System has much to do with evolving Asian gender traits and the dark forest model. However, it is more closely related to the problem of spite and the failure of interstellar cooperation. The solution is a transparent forest.