If one person in a million was able to predict the Powerball lottery, we would see far more winners than predicted by probability theory. Craps and roulette have only a very small house advantage, which would make even a very weak telekinesis or precognition effect obvious. Expert poker players are able to effectively block clairvoyance and telepathy by wearing hats and sunglasses.
The big difference between psi researchers and gambling operators is that one is motivated to find an effect so they have something to publish and one is motivated to prevent cheating. We can thank the broad expansion of legalized gambling for taking the mystery out of how the brain works. It's computation, not magic. -- Matt Mahoney, [email protected] On Tue, Sep 29, 2026, 5:21 PM John Rose via AGI <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tuesday, September 29, 2026, at 4:56 PM, Matt Mahoney wrote: > > The gambling industry has disproved the existence of ESP in trillions of > experimental trials on billions of human subjects. That's enough evidence > for me. > > > Have you discussed this with casino operators personally? The casino > industry is well aware of these types of people. If you are found to well > exceed the laws of probability in a casino, you will be asked to leave. > Don't take everything for face value. > > *Artificial General Intelligence List <https://agi.topicbox.com/latest>* > / AGI / see discussions <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi> + > participants <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/members> + > delivery options <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription> > Permalink > <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T906c878e4ba411be-M48a3ddd75d77e3b57ee14b73> > ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T906c878e4ba411be-M9f562a294b561266cbb95e93 Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
