@gwern @cinnamon_carter Making efficiently compressed 150 base-pair organism may be feasible. For 200 base pairs << ~ 1/10^27.
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@NickSzabo4@cinnamon_carter And thus you see the pressure to rapidly expand and develop longer, more capable genomes. Anon-linear pressure.
@gwern @cinnamon_carter "Pressure" is a silly metaphor. It's about (in)ability to exploit chemicals in the environment.
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@NickSzabo4@cinnamon_carter Pressure/selection relevant for long genomes. Again, viruses as extreme example demonstrating genomes!=clocks. -
@gwern@cinnamon_carter Viruses depend on metabolisms of vastly more complex organism. Terrible example. -
@NickSzabo4@cinnamon_carter Why exploit those genomes if there's no selection for shorter genomes?! You're totally missing the point.
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