On Wednesday, August 16, 2023, at 3:38 PM, Matt Mahoney wrote: > On Tue, Aug 15, 2023, 7:44 AM John Rose <johnr...@polyplexic.com> wrote: >> I suspect human K complexity is larger than most people realize. > > It's about 10^9 bits of long term memory (based on recall tests for words and > images) and 10^8 to 10^9 bits in our DNA. The compressed size of human genome > is 5 x 10^9 bits, but only 8% is functional and the rest is not easily > compressed because it accumulates random mutations that don't get removed by > natural selection. The coding parts are more repetitive. Evolution can only > add 1 bit of information per population doubling generation.
Yes, as an estimate of K. But, for example, I can estimate the distance to a particular star by evaluating its brightness and be off by 1000x. The real K complexity of the distance might be quite large. If you look at an electrical circuit and say it’s 5V that’s just a convenient average estimate. The exact voltage could be trillions of bits as in 4.999981347534783487… And that would have to be sampled over a period of time since it would be changing rapidly. Also, the sampling itself effects the value at the quantum level. The K of a sample typically isn’t the K of a physical object it’s an estimate from a finite string representation of the object, or a virtualized perceptual instance. The specific human's K IS and the perception's K- estimate of the human is OUGHT. Throwing stuff away is lossy. So, the real K complexity of a human being would be quite large. The size would less than or equal to the K of the Universe. ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T772759d8ceb4b92c-M5ebad4e16c1888178f030018 Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
