A Satirical Dialogue: Why Do We Dismiss Accurate Predictors for Being 'Weird'?
repligate · x · 2026-09-23
A reposted satirical dialogue between Science and Msr. Grundy: Grundy objects that a man who made successful predictions way ahead of others is "weird" and believes other offensive things. Science asks how Grundy treated that person 15 years earlier, before the prediction came true — like a dangerous crank. The piece skewers a recurring pattern: unusually correct predictors are usually unusual people, and history judges them by their weirdness rather than their accuracy.
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