timtyler comments on Information theory and FOOM - Less Wrong

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Comment author: timtyler 14 October 2009 10:26:10PM 0 points [-]

I too was talking about information in DNA. The number of species influences the quantity of information present in the DNA of an ecosystem - just as rolling a dice 100 times supplies more information than rolling it once.