[extropy-chat] About ESP, etc.

[Sondre Bjellås]

The reason you never read about the Casinos throwing the ("lucky") people out, is because they hire the people to be dealers, in which they win every single time. I know this, I have been to Las Vegas!

Seriously, psi-power does not exists today and will probably not evolve naturally. It's like religious people claiming that there is a god or higher power. People can believe whatever they want, but the burden of proof is on their shoulders.

Regards,
Sondre

-----Original Message-----
From: extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org [mailto:extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org] On Behalf Of Lee Corbin
Sent: 30. april 2007 07:34
To: ExI chat list
Subject: [extropy-chat] About ESP, etc.

Damien writes

> At 10:25 AM 4/29/2007 -0700, Lee wrote:
> 
>>Likewise if someone demonstrated that ESP works.
> 
> That has been done sufficiently already.

When will someone make some money out of an
obviously incredibly powerful faculty?

>>  Why didn't evolution seize upon it?
> 
> Evolution probably did seize upon it.

Where?  We just don't see it at all, except in very peculiar
and highly statistically suspicious experiments done by a
few scientists.

>> Why aren't the very gifted few already at work cleaning out
>> the casinos in Las Vegas?
> 
> Why aren't really gifted card sharps and other grifters cleaning out casinos?

I've seen on TV how they watch *everybody* for conventional
cheating, using all sorts of spying cameras.  But if I had ESP,
why couldn't I just know when to fold when playing 21, or 
something?  What could they do?

Here is what would happen:  the casinos would simply begin
throwing out people who were "too lucky", with no other
explanation.  I haven't heard of this, have you?  And the
casino ownership would be putting huge money into how
this "cheating" was occuring.  I don't think they are.

Lee

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