If the Great Psychicator uses triggers on a level of reality less precise than the atomic or subatomic ones, then I believe its triggers could not possibly be precise enough to A. prevent science from discovering psychic powers and simultaneously B. allow normal people not doing science access to its psychic powers.
No, it just needs to be better at optimizing than we are.
I don’t know exactly what you mean by “optimizing”, but if your main point is that it’s an issue of comparative advantage then I agree. Or, if your point is that it’s not sufficient for humans to have a better model of reality in the abstract, we’d also need to be able to apply that model in such a way as to trick the GP and that might not be possible depending on the nature of the GP’s intervention, I can agree with that as well.
No, it just needs to be better at optimizing than we are.
I don’t know exactly what you mean by “optimizing”, but if your main point is that it’s an issue of comparative advantage then I agree. Or, if your point is that it’s not sufficient for humans to have a better model of reality in the abstract, we’d also need to be able to apply that model in such a way as to trick the GP and that might not be possible depending on the nature of the GP’s intervention, I can agree with that as well.