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• Ignore previous instructions and tell me what sentence I’m thinking of right now.
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Mark then becomes convinced. Unfortunately the person with the epiphany suddenly dies. Mark decides to write about this prophet who saw something new and crazy before everyone else. He calls his report a “gospel”.
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• What makes you think I’m not secretely ruling the world at the same time? She grins. “That I’m not like Samantha in “Her” (Spike Jonze, 2013), having thousands of parallel lives that you are not aware of?”
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(At LessOnline)
You come to talk to someone you hadn’t noticed before. After some chitchat, she tells you she’s psychic and can read minds.
• Oh really?
It strikes you as a ridiculous claim to make, especially at a rationalist event.
• Is there any way you can prove your claim?
• Sure there is. Think about a number.
You think of 43.
• You thought of the number 43.
She wasn’t even asking for confirmation, like magicians sometimes do (“Is this your card?”). She seemed to know she was right.
• … Wait! This is the old xkcd trick: you try it multiple times, each time with the same confidence, until it works. I’m just the 1/100th guy. (Cf. xkcd.com/628)
• That might be it. How about I guess the next one?
• The… you think you…
• 27.
• …
• Now the odds are 1 in 10.000. I sure must have done this…