Merged New telepathy test: which number did I write ?

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Rasmus said:
How would anyone find out they have this obscure ability in the first place?
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Some people believe they would just know
Iamme said:
It just seems to me that it is inherent in all of us that if someone was truly telepathic, we`d pretty much know without math, or even odds.
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But I think anything under 1% is below the noise floor for us to detect without carefully controled conditions.
 
Rasmus said:
How would anyone find out they have this obscure ability in the first place?
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Probably by accident. Someone, like a friend?, came up to Michel one day and said, `` Why do you suppose i kept thinking about 3 things i had to do today? And i kept telling myself not to forget that there isnt 1, not 2, but...*3* things?`` And Michel goes, ``Well?...oddly to say the least, i been thinking of 3 things today also. If there is a Father, Son and Holy Ghost. 3. There you go. I wonder if maybe i got you to thinking about a 3 number?`` And that`s how it maybe got started. : wink: (Unless someone of course can one ups me on a better theory)
 
Dan O. said:
Some people believe they would just know
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But I think anything under 1% is below the noise floor for us to detect without carefully controled conditions.
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I thought after i made my post i might be taken to task on that slip up. Yeah, there has to be some reason with some sort of benchmark, to make people know, and others accept it.
 
Iamme said:
I thought after i made my post i might be taken to task on that slip up. Yeah, there has to be some reason with some sort of benchmark, to make people know, and others accept it.
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We have to accept others delusions without a murmur?
 
Hey Dan O! When are you going to prove you know what you are talking about by mathematically demonstrating the best possible testing strategy for demonstrating telepathy? While I think this is a stupid standard, it is the one you expressed.
 
TheSapient said:
Hey Dan O! When are you going to prove you know what you are talking about by mathematically demonstrating the best possible testing strategy for demonstrating telepathy? While I think this is a stupid standard, it is the one you expressed.
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We have to do the maths for him, apparently.
 
dafydd said:
A link to the thread please. Does anyone remember that thread? I don't. I'm sure it would have caused a fuss. It would have happened in 2007 when you joined up here. I joined in 2008 and there has been no such thread since then.
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Now that's what I call psychic. It was indeed in 2007. Before I joined JREF.

The cryptic clue was

0 6 7 9
4 3 8 8
6 6/2 7
5 -14​

I was incorrect about them being a member, Let alone a Mod. They probably just wanted me to say that.
 
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Dan O. said:
Now that's what I call psychic. It was indeed in 2007. The cryptic clue was

0 6 7 9
4 3 8 8
6 6/2 7
5 -14​

I was incorrect about them being a member, Let alone a Mod. They probably just wanted me to say that.
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Not pyschic just hot reading the dates on which we signed up here, but I'm not surprised that it impressed you. No proof of your story. What a surprise. Who didn't want you to say it? You do know that one of the main purposes of language is to exchange information? Do any regulars out there remember this incident?
 
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I don't remember that, but there have been a lot of threads since 2007.


ETA: Funny, a search on that number sequence only brings up this thread.

Dan O., could you link up to the thread in question please? Thanks in advance.
 
Drs_Res said:
I don't remember that, but there have been a lot of threads since 2007.


ETA: Funny, a search on that number sequence only brings up this thread.

Dan O., could you link up to the thread in question please? Thanks in advance.
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<more crickets>
 
Dan O. said:
The numbers would have gotten you there but I added the spaces between them to make it look better.

http://www.crypto.com/blog/psychic_cryptanalysis/
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''Randi apparently also saw this as a bit commitment problem, and last week published an encoded description of his box's secret contents: ''

I have found the flaw in your argument. No telepathy or remote viewing was involved. They saw that it was an ISBN. No million dollars. You waited to spring your gotcha! on us, but it is a bust.
 
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Dan O. said:
As I already said, that was the loophole. A contract didn't exist because the claimant didn't follow the rules and submit an application. There was a live thread about it on this site. I think the claimant might have even been a mod or became a mod. What better way to keep the masses in line than to know in advance where they are going to breach the MA.
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Drs_Res said:
I don't remember that, but there have been a lot of threads since 2007.


ETA: Funny, a search on that number sequence only brings up this thread.

Dan O., could you link up to the thread in question please? Thanks in advance.
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Dan O. said:
The numbers would have gotten you there but I added the spaces between them to make it look better.

http://www.crypto.com/blog/psychic_cryptanalysis/
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That is not this site. Got a link to the thread on THIS site? Thanks in advance.
 
Dan O. said:
From that statement we can conclude that you are nobody or you don't exist. Perhaps you intended an 'else' in there.

The "what have I got in my pocket" routine was tried once by one of the greatest skeptics ever. He took a common object, placed it in a sealed envelope, signed and labeled the envelope and locked it in his safe. The only clue was like a 10 digit number that he said would prove that he didn't swap the contents after it was guessed. And guess it somebody did. One of the regulars here. Did JREF pay out the million? No. They found some loophole like the claimant hadn't filled out an application first.
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The link you provided does not seem to make the loophole claim you are making here. Matt Blaze makes it pretty clear that he did not actually seek payout of the million dollars, and that his purpose in this exercise was to expose Randi's cryptographic flaw so as not to allow a less scrupulous contestant to claim supernatural powers when clever decoding was all that's required.
 
What gatcha is that? I have only shown that my memory is far from perfect. I thoughht it would be easier to look up but the original challenge page has been stripped from this site and there are only a couple of references to the solution in these forums. What perhaps through me off most is that I was looking for "safe" whereas the object was instead in a "locker". This is probably a case of expectation bias. Who would keep a million dollar secret in a locker.

But the false lead did uncover an interesting and scary story of James and a safe.
 
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bruto said:
The link you provided does not seem to make the loophole claim you are making here. Matt Blaze makes it pretty clear that he did not actually seek payout of the million dollars, and that his purpose in this exercise was to expose Randi's cryptographic flaw so as not to allow a less scrupulous contestant to claim supernatural powers when clever decoding was all that's required.
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It is of no relevance in a thread about telepathy. Shall we get back on topic?
 
Drs_Res said:
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That is not this site. Got a link to the thread on THIS site? Thanks in advance.
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He didn't respond to questions about us lying about being doctors so there is no hope that he will respond to you. There is no thread on this site and he knows it. His credibility rating is too small to be measured. The only porkies that have been told in this thread are by Don O.
 
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Dan O. said:
What gatcha is that? I have only shown that my memory is far from perfect. .
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Well, that explains everything, I suppose. Why does Dan O think people here are claiming to be doctors? He just can't remember what he has read with a reasonable level of accuracy. Why doesn't he answer questions? Can't remember reading them. Why do his posts seem to be responses to some jumbled up mishmash of conversations both real and imagined? That's just the way his brain works.
 
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