[extropy-chat] Precognition on TV
Eliezer S. Yudkowsky
sentience at pobox.com
Fri Mar 16 04:08:02 UTC 2007
Damien Broderick wrote:
> At 08:06 PM 3/15/2007 -0700, Eliezer wrote:
>
>
>>>Evidently this sort of extravagant expectation does not attend your
>>>reading of quantum experiments designed to send detectable
>>>information back into the past (Cramer's current work),
>>
>>Actually my head would probably explode on that one too, unless there's
>>some reason why the physics don't misbehave in the particular way that
>>would make my head explode. Has to do with something called the Markov
>>property.
>
>
> You should rush this insight to Professors Cramer and Utts and save
> them a lot of wasted effort.
Now *that* would not be proper science.
--
Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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