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jsteinhardt comments on PZ Myers on the Infeasibility of Whole Brain Emulation - Less Wrong Discussion

11 Post author: peter_hurford 14 July 2012 06:13PM

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Comment author: jsteinhardt 16 July 2012 06:21:00AM 1 point [-]

Assume there are 20 apps on the phone, and each app can be in 5 states. Then this list is already 5^20 (or about 10^14) entries long. This doesn't include stored memory, as the address book would entail (number of possible names for the first entry of the address book is already something like 26^20 as a conservative estimate).