Charles Liu

But then you have to figure out why those monsters went out of control.

And in almost all cases, it's because somebody who is not one of those monsters tried to do something unwise and lost control.

Yes, very much so.

And also what Carl did in that book was to make very clear the difference between a scientific and a non-scientific monster.

Right.

Something that you could actually touch and feel and confirm and explain as opposed to an experiment.

That's right.

Do you remember in that book, the parable of the dragon in my garage?

Tell me real quick.

The idea is that I tell you I have a dragon in my garage.

And so you say, oh, let me see it.

It's like, oh, no, it's invisible.

Like, well, okay, so I might be able to hear it, right?

Oh, no, it's completely quiet.

It's like, oh, well, it flies, right?

So I can hear wind.

It's like, oh, no, it flies so quietly you can't tell.

And you can keep telling you that there is a thing that exists there, but I keep telling you why you can't prove that it's there.

Is it actually there?

In that case, this is an attempt to obfuscate or to prevent you from actually learning reality.