[ExI] [Extropolis] Thoughts on the manifesto of futurist science (1916).

[William Flynn Wallace]

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.

No, we don't want esp in any form.  We might go extinct.   bill w

On Sat, Jun 10, 2023 at 5:23 AM efc--- via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> I think it would be wonderful! So much more to explore and the opportunity
> to better understand the world.
>
> But I agree, very, very unlikely.
>
> Best regards,
> Daniel
>
>
> On Fri, 9 Jun 2023, Ben Zaiboc via extropy-chat wrote:
>
> > On 09/06/2023 01:41, Giulio Prisco wrote:
> >> If humans have natural ESP abilities, good!
> >
> > If anyone turned out to have natural ESP abilities (I'm confident that
> won't
> > happen), I think it would be far from good.
> >
> > It would basically mean that science is wrong, down to the fundamentals.
> That
> > would not be good. Fortunately, it's so unlikely that we can safely
> discount
> > it, I reckon.
> >
> > Ben
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