Silly activism, low imagination and no deep understanding. And so retro graphic and sound, that it's even less interesting.

How can we ensure? We can't. The best one can do, is to get there as the first. Since one trusts his sanity more, than anybody else ever would.

It is an inherently dangerous and fragile goal. Otherwise one is just not fast enough to win.

The situation outlined.

The procrastination is a way to do things. You may never indulge to a procrastination and then be just left behind, when the world moved on. This is only one aspect. With no procrastination, your creativity is low, you are able only to maintain the routine.

Just remember Feynman! He procrastinated big time. Had he not, the Quantum Chromodynamic would be unknown. Rather than some unknown would be a known, as the Jesuits want to persuade us.

What is the number of the most relevant points from the Sequences? The Grognor's selection of those 7 may not be the best. Let me try:

BitNumber Statement

• 0 Intelligence explosion is likely in a (near) future

• 1 FOOM is possible to occur

• 2 Total reductionism

• 3 Bayesism is greater than science

• 4 Action to save the world is a must

• 5 No (near) aliens

• 6 FAI or die

• 7 CEV is the way to go

• 8 MWI

• 9 Evolution is stupid and slow

Now, I agree with those from 0 to 5 (first six) in this list I've select. The binary number wold be "111111" or 63 in the decimal notation. They were not new to me, all 10 of them.

Yudkowsky's fiction is just great, BTW. The "Three world collide" may the the best story I have ever read.

In fact it is. But let it stay here.

Yes, doing the calculation and getting the right result is worth of many interpretations, if not.all of them together.

Besides, interpretations usually give you more than the truth. What is awkward.

So is the 747 made of something other than quarks?

Not entirely. Electrons are not of quarks. You can't have a 747 made from quarks only. [Nitpicking.]

You are welcome to "bother" anytime.

I eat a lot. A half to a kilogram per day. What is the amount of information I've got this way? Very little, if any. Even drinking of a lot of alcohol - what I don't - and which would destroy my livers, would mean a very miniscule data transfer.

Some brain stimulating drugs one might take, and what brings him a significantly higher intelligence, is not a big data flow.

Just isn't. Biologists should respect what "information" and "data stream" and so on - mean.

Can't find it now, I am sorry. But I remember the number 2^8000 or there about bytes, mentioned a few years ago as an estimation by some scientist. Neurologist. Now it is impossible to find it, since Google can't search "2^8* ... bytes ... brains" type of a string. Or some regular expressions or something.

Are you saying that they are wrong when they say that womb environment impacts intelligence and sexual preference

I am saying, that there is at the most a very tiny amount of the information flow, even if the womb can make you smarter or dumber. If a lightning strikes and makes somebody a 10 IQ points smarter - what I can see as a possibility - the amount of information by the thunder is about zero.

Those biologists are enthusiastic about it, I know. But they simply don't understand what information means, IMHO.

A few years ago, some of them frequently claimed, that there is a ridiculously big number of bytes stored in human memory. Something much greater than goes inside the Beckenstein's bound for the planet, let alone the head.

In my humble opinion, and with all the respect, they don't know what they are talking about.