<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span><div>On Saturday, May 25, 2013 2:51 PM Anders Sandberg <anders@aleph.se> wrote:</div><div>On 2013-05-25 18:52, Mirco Romanato wrote:</div><div>>>> Their comments are also rather</div><div>>>> sceptical, essentially boiling down to that exactly what is going on</div><div>>>> cannot be determined until they are allowed to look inside. They did</div><div>>>> their testing, that's it.</div><div>>></div><div>>> And come out without noticing any sign of fraud?</div><div>></div><div>> I think it was Randi who pointed out that scientists and engineers</div><div>> are *really bad* at detecting fraud. They normally deal with</div><div>> systems where there is no intention to fool the viewer, so they</div><div>> fall for the most trivial tricks. This is why Randi, a
magician,</div><div>> easily uncovered many cases of fakery that left invited experts</div><div>> dumbfounded.</div><div><br></div><div>That's an important point. I think detecting fraud is a skill in itself and requires honing and experience. Randi was good at this because his being a magician in a way involves fooling people (in a benign way, since they want to be fooled as a form of entertainment:).</div></span></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; "></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; "> </div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; ">Regards,<br><br></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">Dan</font><br><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"> See my SF short story "Residue" at:</font><br><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">https://www.amazon.it/dp/B00BS3T0RM -- Italy<br></font></div><div><font
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