Yes. Those would go into the complexity bound for the human genome, since the genome is pretty much the only information source for human ontogeny. The original post suggested 25 MB, which apparently turned out to be too low. If you make the very conservative assumption that all of the human genome is important, I think the limit is somewhere around 500 MB. The genes needed to build and run the brain are going to be just a fraction of the total genome, but I don’t know enough biology to guess at the size of the fraction.
Anyway, it looks like even in the worst case the code for an AGI that can do interesting stuff out of the box could fit on a single CD-ROM.
The 32 megabytes in question should be added to any pre-programmed instincts.
Yes. Those would go into the complexity bound for the human genome, since the genome is pretty much the only information source for human ontogeny. The original post suggested 25 MB, which apparently turned out to be too low. If you make the very conservative assumption that all of the human genome is important, I think the limit is somewhere around 500 MB. The genes needed to build and run the brain are going to be just a fraction of the total genome, but I don’t know enough biology to guess at the size of the fraction.
Anyway, it looks like even in the worst case the code for an AGI that can do interesting stuff out of the box could fit on a single CD-ROM.