Cyan2 comments on Natural Selection's Speed Limit and Complexity Bound - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Cyan2 06 November 2007 04:17:00AM 0 points [-]

Rolf,

If you look at equation 3 of MacKay's paper, you'll see that he defines information in terms of frequency of an allele in a population, so you'd have to provide a whole population of randomized hard drives, and if you did so, the population would have zero information.