If you look at equation 3 of MacKay’s paper, you’ll see that he defines information in terms of frequency of an allele in a population
I apologize, my statement was ambiguous. The topic of Eliezer’s post is how much information is in an individual organism’s genome, since that’s what limits the complexity of a single organism, which is what I’m talking about.
Equation 3 addresses the holistic information of the species, which I find irrelevant to the topic at hand. Maybe Alice, Bob, and Charlie’s DNA could together have up to 75 MB of data in some holographic sense. Maybe a dog, cat, mouse, and anteater form a complex 100 MB system, but I don’t care.
Would you agree that the information-theoretic increase in the amount of adaptive data in a single organism is still limited by O(1) bits in Mackay’s model? If not, please let me know, because in that case I’m clearly missing something and would like to learn from my mistake.
If you look at equation 3 of MacKay’s paper, you’ll see that he defines information in terms of frequency of an allele in a population
I apologize, my statement was ambiguous. The topic of Eliezer’s post is how much information is in an individual organism’s genome, since that’s what limits the complexity of a single organism, which is what I’m talking about.
Equation 3 addresses the holistic information of the species, which I find irrelevant to the topic at hand. Maybe Alice, Bob, and Charlie’s DNA could together have up to 75 MB of data in some holographic sense. Maybe a dog, cat, mouse, and anteater form a complex 100 MB system, but I don’t care.
Would you agree that the information-theoretic increase in the amount of adaptive data in a single organism is still limited by O(1) bits in Mackay’s model? If not, please let me know, because in that case I’m clearly missing something and would like to learn from my mistake.