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nollidge on Aug 17, 2010 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ray Kurzweil does not understand the brain

Not only that: it may be "only" 800 MB of code, but we have no access to the CPU it runs on.

akkartik on Aug 17, 2010 [–]

I 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.

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