Risto_Saarelma comments on Rationality quotes January 2012 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Risto_Saarelma 04 January 2012 07:49:33AM 4 points [-]

Dean Radin thinks there's something real going on with Ganzfeld telepathy experiments, and runs the numbers on what it'd cost to set up a satisfactory demonstration based on the assumption that people are getting a 32 % success rate instead of the statistically expected 25 % without any known physical causation. He comes up with an experiment that takes 14 years to run and costs somewhat in the excess of $1 million, and concludes that it's not worth doing for a million dollar price but would probably be for ten million dollars.

Comment author: MixedNuts 05 January 2012 03:00:22PM 2 points [-]

He could make additional money from bets. After getting preliminary results, he could ask for donations. He could just contact the X prize foundation and possibly some other skeptics' organizations and ask for ten million rather than one, showing a slightly more detailed version of his post (especially how blinding is done). I expect they would agree.

Fun fact: "radin" is French for "penny-pincher".