Tom_McCabe2 comments on Natural Selection's Speed Limit and Complexity Bound - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Tom_McCabe2 04 November 2007 06:48:03PM 2 points [-]

"So the meaningful DNA specifying a human must fit into at most 25 megabytes."

These are bits of entropy, not bits on a hard drive. It's mathematically impossible to compress bits of entropy.