Khoth comments on Risks of downloading alien AI via SETI search - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Khoth 15 March 2013 10:56:29PM 5 points [-]

On the other hand, if you take a random string of length S, no matter how long it is there's only about a 1/2^100 chance that you can shave 100 bits off it by compression.