From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Sat Sep 21 2002 - 19:07:01 MDT
Jeff Davis wrote:
> --- "Robert J. Bradbury" <bradbury@aeiveos.com> wrote:
>> Jeff Davis wrote:
>>> ...'human' DNA is already 99.9% 'non-human'.
>>
>> I don't think so. I think the standard measure of the difference
>> between humans and chimpanzees is 97-98%.
>
> ...'human DNA is already AROUND 97.5% 'non-human'.
98.4% last time I heard.
> I said 'ballpark', Robert.
>
> Sheesh! What a stickler. ;-)
Over an order of magnitude off isn't "ballpark"... oh, never mind.
-- Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/ Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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