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

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 08 November 2007 01:06:00AM 0 points [-]

Wei, MacKay says in a footnote that the size of the maximally supported genome goes as 1/m^2, but as I understand his logic, this is because of larger genomes creating a factor of sqrt(G) improvement in how much information can be supported against a given mutation rate. Haven't had time yet to examine equation 28 in detail.