<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">There was a cartoon long ago that was based on the idea of esp. I showed a group of people around a table. Each was responding to reading someone else's mind, and cursing and so forth "Well, if that's what you think, you total idiot...." "My nose is ugly, you say? You have the taste of ....." So things unsaid would be communicated to everyone anyway, and the results would be disaster. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">No, we don't want esp in any form. We might go extinct. bill w</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Jun 10, 2023 at 5:23 AM efc--- via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">I think it would be wonderful! So much more to explore and the opportunity <br>
to better understand the world.<br>
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But I agree, very, very unlikely.<br>
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Best regards,<br>
Daniel<br>
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On Fri, 9 Jun 2023, Ben Zaiboc via extropy-chat wrote:<br>
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> On 09/06/2023 01:41, Giulio Prisco wrote:<br>
>> If humans have natural ESP abilities, good!<br>
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> If anyone turned out to have natural ESP abilities (I'm confident that won't <br>
> happen), I think it would be far from good.<br>
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> It would basically mean that science is wrong, down to the fundamentals. That <br>
> would not be good. Fortunately, it's so unlikely that we can safely discount <br>
> it, I reckon.<br>
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> Ben<br>
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