Reading Paul Graham's "beating the average" I can't help think that Steve Yegge's prediction #5 and #10 are mutually exclusive:
Prediction #5: Lisp will be in the top 10 most popular programming languages by 2010.
Prediction #10: In five years' time, most programmers will still be average.
There's no way any Lisp dialect could reach top ten if most programmers are still average ; )