A._Coward comments on Natural Selection's Speed Limit and Complexity Bound - Less Wrong

4 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 04 November 2007 04:54PM

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Comment author: A._Coward 05 November 2007 12:06:02AM 0 points [-]

Eliezer, I'm a little skeptical of your statement that sexual reproduction/recombination won't add information...

1. Single base pairs don't even code for amino acids, much less proteins. 2. If we're looking at how a mutation affects an organism's ability to reproduce, we want to consider at least an entire protein, not just an amino acid. 3. There can be multiple genes that are neutral on their own, yet in combination are either very harmful or very beneficial.

Can you provide an argument as to why none of this affects the "speed limit" (not even by a constant factor?)