On Wed, Jun 18, 2025, 5:59 AM John Rose <johnr...@polyplexic.com> wrote:
> Was hoping that Assembly Theory offered something new with its Assembly > Index which is practical but... it keeps getting eked away at: > > https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.15108 > It makes sense. In assembly theory, the assembly index is the number of elementary steps to build something. The paper claims that is the same as information content. In my 2013 paper on the cost of AI, I estimated that human DNA is equivalent to 300M lines of code using the best compressors at 1.7 bits per base pair and 16 bits per line of code. -- Matt Mahoney, mattmahone...@gmail.com ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/Tcf5991bdfcdced3b-M13f13217b9e2f451795d60a7 Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
