Re: humans and other animals (was: Re: transhumanism gets a thrashing)

From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Sat Sep 21 2002 - 21:25:38 MDT


Damien Broderick wrote:
>
>>Over an order of magnitude off isn't "ballpark"... oh, never mind.
>
>
> Dear dog in heaven! The assertion above should surely be: "I think the
> standard measure of the *similarity*
> between humans and chimpanzees is 97-98%." An order of magnitude off that
> would be circa 9.8%, and I don't see that anywhere here.

99.9% vs. 98.4% ~ 0.1% vs. 1.6%

-- 
Eliezer S. Yudkowsky                          http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence


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