Joe Rogan Experience #2551 - Daniel Kokotajlo · Aired Sep 9, 2026
Claim summary · not a verbatim quotation
Tom Campbell successfully used Alexa to perform remote viewing by connecting a series of numbers to a box containing a spoon with a perforated handle.
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What the evidence shows
There is no scientific evidence that remote viewing is a real ability, and mainstream science treats it as pseudoscience. The US government's own decades-long Stargate program tested this kind of psychic claim and was shut down in 1995 after concluding it produced no reliable, actionable results. An anecdote about a smart speaker describing an object in a box has no controls or independent verification, so it does not count as evidence the ability is real.
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Is it true that Tom Campbell successfully used Alexa to perform remote viewing by connecting a series of numbers to a box containing a spoon with a perforated handle?
No, not as stated. There is no scientific evidence that remote viewing is a real ability, and mainstream science treats it as pseudoscience. The US government's own decades-long Stargate program tested this kind of psychic claim and was shut down in 1995 after concluding it produced no reliable, actionable results. Joe Rogan said it (matched by voice) on Joe Rogan Experience #2551 - Daniel Kokotajlo, aired Sep 9, 2026, at 18:41. The supporting source is en.wikipedia.org, linked below.
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