[extropy-chat] Precognition on TV

[Eliezer S. Yudkowsky]

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.

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Eliezer S. Yudkowsky                          http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence