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Comment author: Eugine_Nier 16 May 2012 04:45:18AM 5 points [-]

Various parapsychology experiments indicate that psi effects can be retrocausal, so experimental results can be determined by whether or not you would in the future talk about them. If psi's capricious then pre-commiting not to blab increases likelihood of significant effects.

I just thought of something. What you're saying is that psi effects are anti-inductive.

Comment author: bogus 16 May 2012 08:52:56PM 0 points [-]

The capricious-psi literature actually includes several proposed mechanisms which could lead to "anti-inductive" psi. Some of these mechanisms are amenable to mitigation strategies (such as not trying to use psi effects for material advantage, and keeping one's experiments confidential); others are not.

Comment author: Will_Newsome 16 May 2012 04:59:21AM 0 points [-]

Indeed.

Comment author: Eugine_Nier 16 May 2012 05:34:49AM 6 points [-]

Ok, I feel like we should now attempt to work out a theory of psi caused by some kind of market-like game theory among entities.

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