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I didn't challenge him to any test. I said originally that he is a pure subjectivist with almost no value whatsoever to measurements. Yet person after person was anointing him as the new objectivist God due to him throwing some test clips at MQA. You know, "my enemy's enemy is my friend" kind of thing. For evidence, I post this video.Frankly, this is a PR disaster.
Don't get me wrong @amirm, your objective reality is my objective reality. I am typically unable to hear the differences @GoldenOne hears/claims to hear. I also do understand the near impossibility to check a remote test for cheating. Not implying that @GoldenOne would cheat, just that even if he doesn't, a remote uncontrolled/weakly controlled test will not convince anyone anyway. However, that was clear from the start, and going all-in with a $1000 bet was probably unwise, if spectacular.
Another subjectivist shows up and says that what he said in that video was just fine. Indeed he asked me what is wrong with it. I explain what was wrong with it: that he couldn't repeat any of those experiences in a controlled test. And offered $1000 if he could to indicate how much confidence I have in that. He could have said there are pink elephants and it would be the same as the nonsense he is saying in that video.
Out of the blue he comes and says he takes that challenge. A wise person in his shoes would not. But he did. So I created this thread for us to discuss how we go about constructing such a test.
We have not concluded what we are going to do. He has concluded though that he is going to run with the test as he has imagined it. Fine, I have offered him a C for trying to the tune of $300. To earn the rest which I love to donate to a worthy cause, a proper test that validates his specific claims in that video needs to be constructed.
Here is the good news: as I mentioned in my "reset" post, we actually don't need him to do more. We can construct the test properly and have him and others to participate in it. If he chooses not to, that is fine. We will still get to the truth.