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by some_furry 541 days ago
It also isn't enough to win once. A winning lottery is only about 1 in 2^28.

I'm going to need this experiment repeated 9 times in a row (1 in 2^252).

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These odds! Nuts. What else has that standard? hahaha :)

far more important tho my reply to your other comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42538042

> These odds! Nuts. What else has that standard? hahaha :)

Zero-knowledge proofs.

? Which has relevance to this for you how? You seem to be resisting trying. Did you try it yet?
Once again, you are assuming a purely antagonistic frame that simply doesn't exist.
You know what I'm assuming? No, you have no idea. I take my word for it not yours. Again, you're lost in this imagining trying to make your 'not trying' about other people or excuses. It's not. Just about you.
I'm inferring your assumptions based on what would logically cause a person to continue the conversation in the manner you are.

And this has been a hilarious exhibition for all parties involved.

I proposed a simple way to prove remote viewing without needing to have a complete theory for why or how it works. You assumed I was playing gotcha with an impossible test. Instead, I proposed an impossible-to-debunk way to prove you're right. You continued to ask if I "tried it" yet while insisting you don't care what I believe. And now you say

> Again, you're lost in this imagining trying to make your 'not trying' about other people or excuses. It's not. Just about you.

And, like, this is obviously projection. I don't need supernatural powers to realize this.

You've been cascading your own misunderstandings to the point of ridiculousness.

Yet all I was doing was say, "Hey, if you do this, you'll have an irrefutable outcome that will give any skeptic pause".

If you had any intuition for analytic thinking, it would be clear that proposing such a test makes me on your side, not against you.

But no, you instead continue to respond in a way that is best explained by assuming that I wanted to fill James Randi's shoes.

I'm a goddamn furry. It's in my username. I never made any attempt to obfuscate this. I spend a lot of free time with people who aren't just "playing pretend" online, but who are significantly psychologically comforted by calling them their fursona species. And I have no trouble squaring objective biological materialism with "here's an easy button to make a friend feel better". When it comes to remote viewing, I'm agnostic. I have no strong opinions either way. That you keep insisting I'm here to discredit you or your beliefs is your own insecurity screaming through the actions and context of your words.

I don't need a fucking crystal ball to see it. Maybe you do.