1GB

With about 1GB of information, the genome encodes humans. About 1GB of information encodes Microsoft Windows. Furthermore, with small mutations to the genome you get vastly different but functional organisms, like a dog instead of a human. Currently we are exploring the programming language (and hardware) landscape by taking small steps around a local maximum, and we are trying to devise type systems for the wrong local maximum. Go do something radically different.

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