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Kwan Hong TAN

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#natural language process... Open access Sep 2026

Strategic Temporal Opacity in Interstellar Interaction: Light-Speed Delay, Outdated Beliefs and Asynchronous Action in a Bayesian Game

Interstellar communication is not merely slow. It is strategically stale. A message received across distance reports a sender that may no longer occupy the same strategic state, while replies and irreversible actions are chosen on different local clocks. This paper develops a delayed Bayesian interaction game in which...

Kwan Hong TAN · 0 citations
#natural language process... Open access Sep 2026

Strategic Temporal Opacity in Interstellar Interaction: Light-Speed Delay, Outdated Beliefs and Asynchronous Action in a Bayesian Game

Interstellar communication is not merely slow. It is strategically stale. A message received across distance reports a sender that may no longer occupy the same strategic state, while replies and irreversible actions are chosen on different local clocks. This paper develops a delayed Bayesian interaction game in which...

Kwan Hong TAN · 0 citations
#machine learning Open access Sep 2026

When Does a Dark Forest Emerge? An Open Agent-Based Model of Interstellar Strategic Regimes

The Dark Forest hypothesis is usually presented as a general consequence of uncertainty, technological asymmetry and catastrophic vulnerability. This paper asks a narrower question: under which combinations of beliefs, capabilities, signalling conditions and network incentives does a Dark Forest actually emerge? A Dark...

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#machine learning Open access Sep 2026

When Does a Dark Forest Emerge? An Open Agent-Based Model of Interstellar Strategic Regimes

The Dark Forest hypothesis is usually presented as a general consequence of uncertainty, technological asymmetry and catastrophic vulnerability. This paper asks a narrower question: under which combinations of beliefs, capabilities, signalling conditions and network incentives does a Dark Forest actually emerge? A Dark...

Kwan Hong TAN · 0 citations
#climate science Open access Sep 2026

Endogenous Game Transformation among Advanced Civilisations: Co-evolution of Technologies, Preferences, Players, Actions and Payoff Structures in Interstellar Strategy

Interstellar game models normally allow strategies to change while holding fixed the players, technologies, preferences, feasible actions and payoff structure. This assumption is least credible for advanced civilisations operating across long technological and evolutionary horizons. This paper develops an Endogenous Ga...

Kwan Hong TAN · 0 citations
#climate science Open access Sep 2026

Endogenous Game Transformation among Advanced Civilisations: Co-evolution of Technologies, Preferences, Players, Actions and Payoff Structures in Interstellar Strategy

Interstellar game models normally allow strategies to change while holding fixed the players, technologies, preferences, feasible actions and payoff structure. This assumption is least credible for advanced civilisations operating across long technological and evolutionary horizons. This paper develops an Endogenous Ga...

Kwan Hong TAN · 0 citations
#climate science Open access Sep 2026

Endogenous Game Transformation among Advanced Civilisations: Co-evolution of Technologies, Preferences, Players, Actions and Payoff Structures in Interstellar Strategy

Interstellar game models normally allow strategies to change while holding fixed the players, technologies, preferences, feasible actions and payoff structure. This assumption is least credible for advanced civilisations operating across long technological and evolutionary horizons. This paper develops an Endogenous Ga...

Kwan Hong TAN · 0 citations
#climate science Open access Sep 2026

Endogenous Game Transformation among Advanced Civilisations: Co-evolution of Technologies, Preferences, Players, Actions and Payoff Structures in Interstellar Strategy

Interstellar game models normally allow strategies to change while holding fixed the players, technologies, preferences, feasible actions and payoff structure. This assumption is least credible for advanced civilisations operating across long technological and evolutionary horizons. This paper develops an Endogenous Ga...

Kwan Hong TAN · 0 citations
#climate science Open access Sep 2026

From Two Players to a Galactic Network: Entry, Extinction, Coalitions, Cliques and Spatial Topology in Interstellar Strategic Interaction

Dark Forest arguments commonly reduce interstellar strategy to a bilateral encounter between two persistent civilisations. A galaxy, however, is an open population in which civilisations enter, disappear, form selective relationships and occupy a spatially constrained network. This paper develops a continuous-time Gala...

Kwan Hong TAN · 0 citations
#climate science Open access Sep 2026

From Two Players to a Galactic Network: Entry, Extinction, Coalitions, Cliques and Spatial Topology in Interstellar Strategic Interaction

Dark Forest arguments commonly reduce interstellar strategy to a bilateral encounter between two persistent civilisations. A galaxy, however, is an open population in which civilisations enter, disappear, form selective relationships and occupy a spatially constrained network. This paper develops a continuous-time Gala...

Kwan Hong TAN · 0 citations
#climate science Open access Sep 2026

Reconstructing the Dark Forest as a Bayesian Game: Exact Conditions for Concealment, Pre-emption and Credible Contact

The Dark Forest hypothesis treats cosmic silence as the strategic consequence of uncertainty, catastrophic vulnerability and incentives for pre-emptive attack. Its central conclusion is usually stated intuitively rather than derived from an explicit incomplete-information game. This paper develops the Bayesian Dark For...

Kwan Hong TAN · 0 citations
#climate science Open access Sep 2026

Reconstructing the Dark Forest as a Bayesian Game: Exact Conditions for Concealment, Pre-emption and Credible Contact

The Dark Forest hypothesis treats cosmic silence as the strategic consequence of uncertainty, catastrophic vulnerability and incentives for pre-emptive attack. Its central conclusion is usually stated intuitively rather than derived from an explicit incomplete-information game. This paper develops the Bayesian Dark For...

Kwan Hong TAN · 0 citations

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