The Dark Forest Marketing Agency

This short fiction follows a narrator's 15-minute virtual consultation with Pasha7, an AI twin representing the human marketing expert Ibrahim Pasha, after paying 0.05 ETH. The narrator is told that the advice is to avoid marketing entirely and design a product that is hard to discover, based on a "Dark Forest" theory drawn from Cixin Liu's science fiction. The Pasha describes "Cixin goods," whose marketing value per unit of random attention is negative, and says that a product should be shown only in contexts so high-trust that they market themselves. The narrator never receives the promised follow-up.