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Another sleight of hand with that statement: Kurzweil's converting compressed data to lines of code, but humans don't write in high-entropy binary. So it's 800M
by akkartik 16y ago
Another sleight of hand with that statement: Kurzweil's converting compressed data to lines of code, but humans don't write in high-entropy binary. So it's 800MB of code, not 50MB.
- eru 16y agoJust look at compressed source code, too.
- nollidge 16y agoNot only that: it may be "only" 800 MB of code, but we have no access to the CPU it runs on.
- akkartik 16y agoI took a few stabs at expressing that idea before giving up. I like your attempt better than mine: Even the 800MB of base pairs may have higher entropy than the machine language we're used to. 2000 lines of lisp or haskell are worlds away from 2000 lines of assembly.