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		piAcceptor on Aug 17, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Winning 1kb intro released at Assembly 2015 I really hope you are right about encoding a person in less than a gig, but what about the associated genome (3000 megabases), episodic memories and/or neuron connectivity?! Surely this is data that would be essential, yet very hard to algorithmically encode?

taeric on Aug 17, 2015 [–]

I don't know enough to weigh in on if a person is just a gig. I'm just going off of this[1] presentation.

[1] http://www.infoq.com/presentations/We-Really-Dont-Know-How-T...

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