Professor Challenger - Esoteric Chat https://esoteric.chat/feed/conversation/11096/ 2025-02-26T23:16:15Z esoBB Robert Adamant https://esoteric.chat/post/44676/ 2024-09-26T15:10:26Z Robert Adamant

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Why are you still alive 😕

because I'm not talking to you

]]> KmfdmLover https://esoteric.chat/post/44674/ 2024-09-26T13:49:09Z KmfdmLover

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I'm getting further into Professor Challenger by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and finding something mundane but quietly horrifying about the story that inspired Jurassic Park.
Professor Challenger is a very well pedigreed but no one believes him while Sherlock Holmes has no credentials and everyone believes him.
The main mechanism is that Professor Challenger's discoveries make a simple world more complicated and Sherlock makes a complicated world simpler.
The most powerful statement is about how much any audience would resist having to do more intellectual labor by reforming their world view.
Credentials exist only as a fruitless attempt to appeal to people who would dismiss all evidence that they had to reconsider their prejudices anyway.

Why are you still alive 😕

]]> Robert Adamant https://esoteric.chat/post/44671/ 2024-09-25T22:45:37Z Robert Adamant I'm getting further into Professor Challenger by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and finding something mundane but quietly horrifying about the story that inspired Jurassic Park.
Professor Challenger is a very well pedigreed but no one believes him while Sherlock Holmes has no credentials and everyone believes him.
The main mechanism is that Professor Challenger's discoveries make a simple world more complicated and Sherlock makes a complicated world simpler.
The most powerful statement is about how much any audience would resist having to do more intellectual labor by reforming their world view.
Credentials exist only as a fruitless attempt to appeal to people who would dismiss all evidence that they had to reconsider their prejudices anyway.

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