Strilanc comments on Neuroscience basics for LessWrongians - Less Wrong

84 Post author: ChrisHallquist 26 July 2012 05:10AM

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Comment author: Strilanc 25 July 2012 07:46:34AM 4 points [-]

Data with lots of redundancy does, in a certain sense, contain a lot of junk. Junk that, although it helps reliably transmit the data, doesn't change the meaning of the data (or doesn't change it by much).

Comment author: [deleted] 25 July 2012 09:36:55AM 2 points [-]

Yeah. What's relevant to this discussion is complexity, not number of base pairs.