This is my fear as well. I think once we finally come up with a sliding scale, most if not all humans are going to score rather low on it. If you believe that

This is my fear as well. I think once we finally come up with a sliding scale, most if not all humans are going to score rather low on it. If you believe that the future of any intelligent lifeform is to evolve into some form of machine intelligence, and it's obvious that machine intelligences can communicate complex ideas in blinding fast speed -- in parallel channels? Plus live tens or hundreds of thousands of years? Compared to that we're like mayflies, popping into existence and back out in a blink of the eye, doing nothing more than buzzing around. Hell, that's not just true of individual humans. Our entire species might look like that. Want the answer to Fermi's Paradox? There it is. How much time are you going to spend today trying to observe and understand a individual gnat?