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Is the big underlying motive for LISP its connection with symbolic AI?

This would naively seem to be a yes to psi. Bem got a strong signal and Scott doesn't believe in psi so he thinks science in general is deeply flawed as it currently works.

I don't have direct proof, but groups like SRI have published results in IEEE.

I found this nature article which claims he has inflated the p values, because Radin fails to include hypothetical negative tests in his sample analysis of the file drawer. Seems pretty clear, although I don't understand it yet, so I will need need to think about it further. That being said, I would still have trouble accounting for all the various pieces of evidence in his book. E.g. the anticipation graphs are pretty remarkable.

https://www.nature.com/articles/39784

Dean Radin has a fascinating book looking at the evidence for ESP. There is quite a bit since the topic has obvious military applications if it works. There are a number of metaanalyses he looks at which indicate it is not p hacking. The book has some interesting brain impulse graphs which show a clear anticipation of randomly chosen images, when the image is distressing.

As for Randi, who watches the watchers? Is he truly disinterested in his challenge, or are his examinations also biased? Additionally, the research I've seen shows a statistically significant, but faint result, so it may not be easy to reproduce in Randi's setting.

All that being said, I have not personally been able to reproduce the results, even though the claim is that almost everyone has a low level of latent ESP capability, which can be amplified through training. SRI even has an ESP training app if you want to try verifying the claims.

I am curious why it has never been claimed. At least ESP seems to be very well documented from a scientific perspective.

Lots of ghost stories and religious experiences and accounts of telekinesis and ESP. Are all those true as well?

Look I am not saying they are right. My point is these are not your average stupid uneducated person. The two families in question, the one parent has multiple PhDs from Columbia and Princeton, the other took their undergrad at Caltech. You don't get those degrees by believing any random crazy thing that crosses your path. Plus they have a first hand experience with their child that for some reason makes them believe the vaccine was responsible. If it were any other topic their background and experience would lend their viewpoint more credence than dismissal as "nutjobs". What makes this topic different? Why would they have any incentive to blame the vaccine besides some sort of convincing first hand experience? Why should we in this one instance distrust their rational capacities that have allowed them to acquire intellectual credentials the vast majority of the earth's population don't have the capacity to acquire?

I personally know very intelligent and highly educated people who went to top universities who are convinced vaccines caused mental retardation in their children. They may be wrong, but I would not call them nutjobs.

The question is who is exploiting whom in this situation.

I get that it is hard to say how derivative something is. There are certainly cases where this is hard to say. However, there are also cases where it is quite black and white where much effort was expended to come up with a particular design. What do you say about such cases, especially if it is an individual who doesn't have the resources to roll their own copy protection scheme?

Could that be mediated with many read heads at different locations?

Exactly. That is why I say such arguments are essentially arguments for communism, and we all know how that turns out.

Did they make multi-million dollar movies?

No, but anyone in the public could potentially become part of such a group. So, what they disallow for what they consider a special group they are also disallowing for themselves.

My friend worked at a real one and it did not sound much different.

Great, now they can go full google and manipulate the local news.

What is the difference between a psych ward and a jail? No difference in tv shows, except they also drug you, do weird experiments, and you could get killed by fellow inmates without a problem. If getting committed to a psych ward replaces prison it sounds much worse.

Companies are made out of people, who have an agreement with the rights holders.

Well, as someone who may create IP, I would like recourse to the legal system in order to enforce ownership of what I create. I imagine there are many people like me.

Wouldn't that argument undermine all property protection? What if anything of ours is uniquely ours vs somewhat derivative? Tangible property is even more derivative, i.e. inheriting a house. Absolutely no creativity going on in that case, yet it is protected much more strongly than IP.

Shannon info and KC are asymptotically equivalent.

I believe even technocratic communism would fail for the same reasons that agrarian and industrial communism failed. Lack of incentive to work hard, Goodhardt's law, destruction of those who try to retain property rights, etc. Even today's open source movement is very parasitic on the commercial sector. Without big tech companies OS would disappear.

No one has a right to someone else's labor.

Everything intangible would not exist if someone didn't put in the effort to create it. As such they have a right to constrain the use of what they create, just as they have with tangible goods they create.

Do you have a right to everyone's IP who doesn't fit your expectations for reasonable access and price?

I was initially skeptical about your statement that Ron Main is avcrackpot, since he comes across as highly intelligent and very well versed in physics and mathematics. However, he also thinks there is a sufficiently strong axiomatic system to resolve all arithmetic questions, and claims Godel did not disprove this. That is indeed quackery. I guess he is one of those geniuses that went off the deep end.

Very weird

Maybe the ancients are right and the soul resides somewhere in the liver. Don’t laugh; people have led normal lives with giant pieces of their brain removed, but nobody has survived the death of their livers. The former fact; normal people getting by without much brain tissue, at least, ought to be the end of the argument: purely Hebbian models of the brain are obviously false.

Incredible, thanks! Cheaper than a shotgun sequencer :)

How do we get a dongle?