Re: Genetic self reference

From: Russell Wallace (russell.wallace@gmail.com)
Date: Sun May 14 2006 - 22:17:40 MDT


On 5/15/06, Russell Wallace <russell.wallace@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Most of it must be genuinely junk, because the mutation rate is too high
> and the birth rate even in ancestral conditions too low for natural
> selection to preserve 3 gigabytes of meaningful data against random
> mutation. (For further explanation of this, see Eliezer's presentation in
> the recent video.)
>

Brain glitch: 3 gigabases is of course only 750 megabytes. The point stands.



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