[extropy-chat] NOT damien's psi book

[Damien Broderick]

>--- Mike Lorrey <mlorrey at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > --- Adrian Tymes <wingcat at pacbell.net> wrote:
> > > Here's one place where the chain breaks down.  See
> > > Drake's equation, and the debates surrounding it,
> > > for reasons why we very well could be the first
> > > technologically advanced civilization in the
> > universe.
> >
> > On the contrary, the Drake equation has been getting
> > a drumming the
> > past few years
>
>Nit: "the idea that the Drake equation shows how
>unlikely life can be has been getting".  Nothing that

etc etc

Even Spike's original posts about stochasticity had very little to do my 
study of parapsychology, THE LOTTO EFFECT. This wandering thread now has 
ZERO to do with psi. Can people please change the subject line now and then 
to keep flagged topics appropriate?

Damien Broderick
[grump grump]