Wei_Dai2 comments on Natural Selection's Speed Limit and Complexity Bound - Less Wrong
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Tom McCabe, having 100 chromosomes with no recombination lets you maintain the genome against a mutation pressure of 10 bits per generation, not 100. (See my earlier comment.) But that's still much better than 1 bit per generation, which is what you get with no sex.