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Re:Winning 1kb intro released at Assembly 2015 by piAcceptor on Monday August 17, 2015 @02:13AM (#10071570)
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?
Re:Winning 1kb intro released at Assembly 2015 by taeric on Monday August 17, 2015 @12:22PM (#10074092)
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...