Two more dumb questions. 1. If this works, then why aren't you rich?
2. In the video, the speaker said that the experiment correctly predicted the stock market on all 7 days and they risked real money. But he never says that they made a profit. Why? On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 12:27 PM, Ben Goertzel <[email protected]> wrote: > Matt, > > According to the available data, psi is real but not that reliable, > though some seem to have used it successfully for financial > prediction, e.g. > > http://www.remote-viewing.com/ARVpaper.pdf > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkAO32IrkLM > > Anyway, I would imagine that the pattern of successes and errors made > via psi-based traders would be quite different from that made by > proto-AGI or AGI based trading systems. So I would guess the two > approaches would be largely orthogonal in terms of their impact on the > market... > > -- Ben > > > On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 8:59 AM, Matt Mahoney via AGI <[email protected]> > wrote: >> On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 6:21 AM, Ben Goertzel via AGI <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> http://multiverseaccordingtoben.blogspot.hk/2015/03/paranormal-phenomena-nonlocal-mind-and.html >> >> Two dumb questions. >> >> 1. Have you programmed psi into your stock trading program? >> >> 2. If so, then how? If not, then how will your program compete against >> human traders using precognition to predict stock prices? >> >> -- >> -- Matt Mahoney, [email protected] >> >> >> ------------------------------------------- >> AGI >> Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now >> RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/212726-deec6279 >> Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?&; >> Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com > > > > -- > Ben Goertzel, PhD > http://goertzel.org > > "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one > persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all > progress depends on the unreasonable man." -- George Bernard Shaw -- -- Matt Mahoney, [email protected] ------------------------------------------- AGI Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/21088071-f452e424 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21088071&id_secret=21088071-58d57657 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
