Re: SCI:BIO: raw genome length not a good measure of organism

Sean Morgan (sean@lucifer.com)
Mon, 13 Jan 1997 23:13:43 -0700


Eliezer Yudkowsky <sentience@pobox.com>

> Like I always say, my hard drive stores more data than the raw,
>uncompressed, comments-and-all human genome, which takes a paltry 750M.
>[...] an upper limit smaller than my hard drive

99% of that is shared with chimps. The delta for the new code would fit on a
floppy.

Uncompressed.

Twice.

Almost three times (well, it would nice to leave room for a readme file).

"To upgrade your genome, insert disk labeled 'Patch' into drive a:\ ..."
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