Nominull3 comments on Contaminated by Optimism - Less Wrong

10 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 06 August 2008 12:26AM

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Comment author: Nominull3 06 August 2008 02:01:49AM 2 points [-]

Hardly any phenomena are like us, though. You can't hold a conversation with gentrification, or teach nitrogen narcosis to play piano.

It strikes me that if you want to rank phenomena as to how like us they are, you have a bunch of humans with gigantic numbers, and then chimps and chatbots rolling around at about .1, and then a bunch of numbers small enough you want scientific notation to express them.