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Space isn't a Dark Forest. It is a Maid Cafe. When you reach the proper level of technological advancement, your planet undergoes the Maidification process. Nanobots are deployed which changes everyone into a maid with huge boobs and then your planet is welcomed into the Maid Cafe.

The problem with the Dark Forest Hypothesis is that it isn't actually the optimal way for civilizations to behave. Destruction is wasteful, transformation isn't. It is far more efficient to turn everybody into maids with huge boobs who all get along peacefully and work together on making more advanced research.

I have attached an image of the Maidification process for reference. Let me know if you need another example.