<div dir="auto"><div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Dec 31, 2023, 8:03 AM Giulio Prisco via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On 2023. Dec 31., Sun at 12:13, Ben Zaiboc via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
As John K Clark has been banished from this list, and I feel that his <br>
annual paranormal prediction is an important message for all those who <br>
consider themselves to be rational, I'm posting this in his place. </blockquote><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">If this is your definition of rationality, then I consider myself irrational, and very proudly so.</div><div dir="auto">And I look forward to see John’s prediction fail.</div><div dir="auto">Well, actually, John’s prediction will not literally fail, because psi breakthroughs will not be published in Nature and Science, which are legacy journals that lick politically correct ass. But they will be published elsewhere.</div></div></div></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">If there was scientifically rigorous evidence of psi, Nature or Science might publish it. I do recall Science publishing what might be called "technopsi" this year - neural tissue fused with silicon to achieve results that neural tissue alone could not - though there was nothing supernatural about it. Likewise there have been social and cognitive studies published where, if one just voted the results without noting the science of how they came to be, some might believe they were psi - but with the curtain pulled back, they are not generally called psi.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I foresee this post chain continuing on December 31st, 2024. Am I therefore psychic?</div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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