The Singer excerpt and the realization of dimensional warfare was such an amazing aside from the rest of the narrative.

It really serves to imbue abject terror into the reader about how everything up until that point, (the Trisolarans invading, the various culture states humanity went through, the exponential technological growth curve, Deterrence Era) was essentially pointless.

During the Singer chapter, when it determines it needs to issue the strike against the human solar system, that was referring to the initial communications between Yi Wenjie and the Trisolarian listener correct?

That technically means that all the events starting from that second transmission up until the Singer events were really all for nothing, and Earth humanity was doomed already?

If so, that’s truly one of the most terrifying awesome aspects of the book, and the only way that Earth humanity could have maybe prolonged their existence was by means of Escapism. Though, that would have only worked for a short while, as Curvature Propulsion/FTL travel never would have been discovered, and the dimensional weapon would have reached them eventually.

It also makes you wonder if humanity in reality is already cosmically doomed, as we’ve been transmitting lower power signals randomly into space. And while those signals are weak, we truly do not know how capable other civilizations are at detecting such signals, regardless of distance or noise

We too in reality may have already doomed ourselves.

But back to my original point, from my omniscient POV as the reader, nothing really “matters” from a survival standpoint after that second transmission was sent by Yi Wenjie in the 20th century.