Out of curiosity: is your statement based mainly on the Liu Cixin series? Or is there some more depth to it? If so, could you give some pointer to the more in-depth analysis of this hypothesis?
There is lots of work done on it in the SETI field. The dark forest theory doesn’t hold up under game theoretic analysis (hiding is not the optimal strategy, nor is predation), and is pretty resounding rejected.
Not sure what the best resource would be for an outsider to delve into this field though.
