<div dir="auto"><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Apr 6, 2023, 7:09 PM William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small"> human DNA is less than a gigabyte of information, which is surprisingly simple, simpler even than modern video games which often are 60+ gigabytes in size.</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small"><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif"><br></font></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small"><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif">Now you are telling me that a video game is as complex as a person. Can't be.</font></span></div></div></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Information is a measure of the number of possible possibilities. Where the log2(possibilities) = number of bits of information required to uniquely define one of those possibilities.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">There are more possibilities for a 60 GB video game than there are possibilities of human DNA. Note that most of the information in these video games are in the images and textures used to paint 3D objects. Think of how many possible movies there are, with all the possible colors of pixels (16.7 million) across the millions of pixels in each frame, across the 172,800 frames in a 2 hour movie.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">This is far more than the number of possible combinations of all the 3.2 billion base pairs in the human genome. Each base pair has 4 possibilities, that's 6.4 billion bits. Divide by 8 to get 0.8 billion bytes, or 800 Megabytes (763 mebibytes). Note that this is not the number of possible humans but the number of possible DNA based life forms with 3.2 billion base pairs or less.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small"><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif"> The combination of genes is for practical purposes infinite. bill w</font></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)" dir="auto"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small"><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif"></font></span></div></div></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Number of possible humans has a ceiling of: 2^(2 * 3.2 billion)</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Number of possible DVDs (4.7 GB):</div><div dir="auto">2^(8 * 4.7 billion)</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">They are huge but finite, and quite comparable in terms of information content.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Jason </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)" dir="auto"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small"><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif"><br></font></span></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Apr 6, 2023 at 4:18 PM Gadersd via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The brain at birth has already received plenty of information from the environment.</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div>Many animals have gestation periods. The signals received during gestation do not explain the exceptional capabilities of the human brain. The signals in the gestation period of dogs for example is not fundamentally different than that of humans. The hormones, nutrients, etc. are similar. The capabilities of the human brain must be due to the differences in our DNA compared to that of dogs. As Jason pointed out, human DNA is less than a gigabyte of information, which is surprisingly simple, simpler even than modern video games which often are 60+ gigabytes in size.<br><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Apr 6, 2023, at 3:24 PM, spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:</div><br><div><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></div><div style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></div><div><div style="border-style:solid none none;border-top-width:1pt;border-top-color:rgb(225,225,225);padding:3pt 0in 0in"><div style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b>…</b>><span> </span><b>On Behalf Of<span> </span></b>Gadersd via extropy-chat<br><b>Subject:</b><span> </span>Re: [ExI] GPT-4 on its inability to solve the symbol grounding problem<u></u><u></u></div></div></div><div style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></div><div><blockquote style="margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt" type="cite"><div><div><div style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">>>…The brain is then strictly less complex than DNA.<u></u><u></u></div></div></div></blockquote><div style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></div></div><div style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">>…I should emphasize that I am referring to the complexity of the brain at birth rather than the brain + information from the environment…<u></u><u></u></div><div style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></div><div style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The brain at birth has already received plenty of information from the environment.<u></u><u></u></div><div style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></div><div style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">spike<u></u><u></u></div><div style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></div><div style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></div><div style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></div></div><span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;float:none;display:inline">_______________________________________________</span><br style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;float:none;display:inline">extropy-chat mailing list</span><br style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a><br style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><a href="http://lists.extropy.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/extropy-chat" style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">http://lists.extropy.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/extropy-chat</a></div></blockquote></div><br></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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