It seems like psi has been consistently understudied given the possibly profound consequences of understanding not-completely mundane psi. For one thing, I would expect it's a lot easier to build an FAI in a psi-enabled universe versus a no-psi universe.
For one thing, I would expect it's a lot easier to build an FAI in a psi-enabled universe versus a no-psi universe.
What's your line of thought?
According to the New Scientist, Daryl Bern has a paper to appear in Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, which claims that the participants in psychological experiments are able to predict the future. A preprint of this paper is available online. Here's a quote from the New Scientist article:
Question: even assuming the methodology is sound, given experimenter bias, publication bias and your priors on the existence of psi, what sort of p-values would you need to see in that paper in order to believe with, say, 50% probability that the effect measured is real?