Incidentally, 10 or 15 years ago I designed the overview of a real experiment on the paranormal which had adequate checks and balances. The hard part of that is to prevent the team of controllers from wrecking the project. That would take, I thought, three years of training: getting people with disparate views working together, before the experiments could begin. Two years of training and planning at a minimum. The cost would be phenomenal to do a proper series of experiments on the paranormal. I was getting irritated by all the incompetent university departments who were believing, in the 90s and 00s, that they had "debunked" the paranormal where in actuality they had designed experiments that prevented positive results from being found.
Whether or not you believe in paranormal possibilities, I think that if you're intelligent, you'd at least accept that you have to listen to people who may genuinely understand something about it, because if you don't, clearly your experiments are worthless.
From a slightly different angle, which is not all that different, a five year project to weakly solve chess is also worthless. Who would get involved, knowing that the overview was so badly contrived? Not thought out .... contrived.
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"At least not in the near future"
++ Depending on somebody willing to fund a 5 year project of 3 million $ with 3 cloud engines and 3 grandmasters.
I costed it a couple of hundred posts back. You can no longer fund even a 5 year project with $3m, sorry. I speculated that if I got someone like my son to lead it, he probably wouldn't do it for less than £140K per year and the reason for that is there wouldn't be much hope of it leading anywhere, so in effect it would be five wasted years at the most productive point in someone's career. It may be that anyone who would do it for less wouldn't be competent anyhow because the decision to do it may not be a very competent one.
Anyway, you seem to think that the methodology would be known. If fact it would take around five years just to plan the five year project, which would turn into a much longer one, of course. You seem to imagine that if you started now, the team would automatically be competent, the premises required would be available and the team would know exactly what hardware and software they required. In fact, the first part of the project would be getting the hardware and software together. The project you imagine would last five years at $3 million is really 10 years and $10 million and that would be the minimum requirement to get it off the ground. Of course, it would still be a fiddlingly small project, inadequately supported and with no real chance of success.