I have posted the following to Dean Radin’s blog:
I would like to extend an offer and a challenge on the subject of psi.
[note: I posted this awhile ago and exactly as I predicted there have been no takers. It's a bit too close to harsh reality; no one to persuade, no room for wiggling around. I'm psychic, which is how I knew that there would be no takers. If you create an even moderately real-world application for testing psi you will be disappointed. People want something to confirm their beliefs that psi is real, not the reality, which is that psi is almost not-real. ]
Given that psi is argued here and elsewhere to provide a statistically significant edge I want to see whether this can be proven in a larger, real-world test that psychics can benefit from financially.
For those of you are familiar with the odds in gambling you will know that both blackjack and trading currencies or futures have relatively small edges in favor of the house or broker.
If you happen to have read Keith Harary’s work (a supposedly psychic wunderkind who has since renounced belief in psi) you know he once argued that the edge in psi applied to the odds in blackjack present a winning combination if you play in accord with a fairly easy to learn strategy for maximizing your odds in playing.
This is even more true in trading markets where you are basically only playing against the broker.
Recently Dean has linked to someone supposedly using remote viewing for trading commodities. Amusingly the remote viewer had acquired a grand total of $100,000. Not to knock this amount of money but anyone who knows trading knows that even starting with what you can borrow on a credit card – 5 to 10 k – can be rapidly expanding to 1-2 million dollars in less than a year … IF you have a rock solid statistical edge.
So my challenge to anyone and everyone is if you can find me a small number of people who have shown statistically significant abilities in precognition/clairvoyance (to the extent this can be separated) I will help acquaint them with the money management and other facts involved in using their edge in the real world, in the world of trading.
I am not convinced the claims of a reliable statistical edge exist nor that they can be applied consistently in the real world, so consider this a blend of a friendly offer and a throwing down of the gauntlet in challenge to anyone reading this.
- Show me you have a track record.
- Show me you have an edge.
- Commit to a relatively short period of trading, less than one year.
If you can do it you will get from this:
1. Enough money to retire
2. Enough money to fund parapsychology research
3. Real world proof that will definitely have the world’s attention
I predict right now that for some mysterious reason no will be interested despite our economic downturn and the promise of financial freedom; or that also for some mysterious reason will be unable to show they have an edge; or be unable to complete using their supposed edge in a real-world environment despite huge benefits; or that some other rationalization will be made to prevent this from going forward.
Dean, I welcome you or anyone you know of in the community to pass this along to any people who have shown psychic talent.
I will post this challenge on my blog. I welcome any refinement of protocol, but obviously the great thing about this is the results will speak for themselves.
Markets and gambling offer beautiful, indeed ideal, places to test a supposed edge.
Let’s bypass Randi and experiments and create something. If these claims about psi and an edge are true you could fund endless psi tests via the psychics applying their skills to the markets.
To my knowledge every attempt to do something along these lines fails. Paul Allen, partner of Bill Gates, and Sony Corporation funded psi and then both shut down their respective research due to lack of results.
Similarly Keith Harary had a group of psychics work on predicting the silver markets and again mysteriously stopped with assorted rationalizations when they acquired an amount of money that was frankly negligible in the world of commodity trading.
That’s my challenge. I’ll help people learn what to do and can even manage the account. If you can present psychics then this can go to real world application.
I don’t think it will happen and as per usual there is really no good reason why not, but this is my offer regardless.
Note: You MUST show some kind of track record. I don’t want to waste time teaching people if you don’t have a recommendation from someone like Dean Radin or something similar.
