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amit comments on A Rationalist's Account of Objectification? - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: amit 22 June 2012 06:05:48PM *  1 point [-]

Of course the evidence will never be very communicable to a wide audience

Why not? First obvious way that comes to mind: take someone that the audience trusts to be honest and to judge people correctly and have them go around talking to people who've had experiences and report back their findings.

Comment author: Will_Newsome 22 June 2012 06:12:08PM *  0 points [-]

That's a multi-step plan: at least one of those steps would go wrong. By hypothesis we're talking about transhuman intelligence(s) here (no other explanation for psi makes sense given the data we have). They wouldn't let you ruin their fun like that, per the law of conservation of trolling. (ETA: Or at least, it wouldn't work out like you'd expect it to.)